[CentOS] Can't load Centos 5 on laptop

[Paul]

On Sun, April 22, 2007 6:58 pm, John Summerfield wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I guess that was a useless excersise, cause the Centos 4.4 that loads
>>> fine
>>> is the same type of DVD.  But I'm just shooting blind now.  ;->
>>
>> 1. Does the boot.iso image boot?
>> 2. Does your laptop support pxe?
>>
>> Either way, with a minimal LAN, you can set up a network install and do
>> use http (maybe off the Internet) or nfs.
>
> Can you boot off USB? I think there's a USB image available too, and
> that _might_ allow you to install from the DVD.

I don't have anything that is usb to boot off of, except a usb 18 in 1
card reader that I can't get to work with Cento 4.4 which is loaded now. 
I also tried the slowest burn and nothing still, but the same Centos 5 DVD
loads fine on another laptop I have, but not this one.  The Centos 4.4 DVD
loaded fine and that is what I am on.  This lap top is not that old.  It's
a 2.4Ghz Pent 4 with 1 gig ram from 2003, which is faster than allot sold
now.  Very strange, I just don't understand it.  Just for kicks, I burned
a CD and tried to boot up on 1 of 6 Cento 5 on CD, and still, same thing.