[CentOS] Problem installing from CD

Tue May 30 11:57:33 UTC 2006
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

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.


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