it's a bit more complex..i had to manually enter the mirror information..but that's exceedingly minor..<G. I ma not installing centos 5 64 bit. i would like to know why no 64 bit cd or dvd will not install. Damien Solodow wrote: > Yep. Just grab the 'netinstall' iso file and burn it. (It's about 7mb) > > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf > Of William Warren > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 11:15 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: install issues > > I just realized the old server had a cd rom not dvd..:( > > I wonder if i can install directly from one of the mirrors over http? > > > Scott Silva wrote: >> on 1/24/2008 2:17 PM William Warren spake the following: >>> well it boots onto my athlon64 system. what's weird is no centos dvd >>> will install..they all die at that point. The centos 32 bit CD's also >>> work fine. I guess something in this machine does not like centos >>> dvd's. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm starting the centos 64 bit cd >>> set torrent now but if i can find a solution in the next 6 >>> hours(burning and downloading time) i'd be highly appreciative. >>> >>> Wiliam >>> >>> William Warren wrote: >>>> I have a new dell t105(opty 1210's with 4 gigs of ram..sata hdd's and >>>> sata dvd-rom). I can bot to the Cent 5 64 bit dvd fine but once it >>>> asks where the install image is i tell it cd-rom..then it rejects the >>>> dvd spits it out and tells me it's not there. the same happens on 32 >>>> bit. I have downloaded centos5 twice now, md5 verified..and even >>>> burned at 1x(that took forever). Any ideas as to why it refuses to >>>> see a disk that's there, properly burned, and verified? >>>> >>>> >> If you have another server available, you can loop mount the dvd and >> share it by HTTP. In the images directory is a boot.iso that you can >> burn to CD and do network installs. >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Registered Microsoft Partner My "Foundation" verse: Isa 54:17