[CentOS] Problem installing from CD

Jeffrey B. Layton laytonjb at charter.net
Tue May 30 12:01:49 UTC 2006


Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:
>   
>> Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>     
>>> Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> Good morning,
>>>>
>>>>   I hate to bother everyone again, but I'm having some more
>>>> trouble. I have a new machine with an MSI  RS480M2-IL
>>>> motherboard (ATI Xpress200 chipset) and a  Hammer DVD
>>>> Writer (shows up as a Matshita DVD-RAM SW-9585).
>>>>   I get the CD to start (in text mode - don't know why I can't
>>>> do VGA or better), and it asks me What type of media contains
>>>> the packages to be installed. I choose CDROM and then it
>>>> says:
>>>>
>>>> The CentOS-4 x86_64 CD was not found in any of your CDROM
>>>> drives. Please insert the CentOS x86_64 CD and press OK to retry.
>>>>
>>>> The funny thing is that this is Disk 1 of x86_64. Any ideas?
>>>> I've tried a couple of different download sites and I always get
>>>> the same problem.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> have you md5sum verified the original downloaded iso ?
>>>
>>> have you run the media check from the installer ? ( should be the very
>>> first step, pre install )
>>>
>>> - KB
>>>   
>>>       
>> Yes. Still the same problem.
>>
>>     
> are you using this against an older firmware running on the 3ware-8xxx
> cards by any chance ?
>
> apart from that - well, network install comes to mind right away. and
> trouble shoot the issue later.
>   

Nope - no 3ware cards. I'll try the network install and see what I can 
get to
work.

Thanks!

Jeff



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