[CentOS] Cannot get CentOS to install

[Michael Peterson]

JohnS wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 14:15 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
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>> JohnS wrote:
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>>> On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 15:21 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
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>>>> I would really like to get CentOS 5.2 or 5.3 installed on the system if 
>>>> there is a work around.
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>>> What are you using to burn the CDs? How old is the CD Drive that your
>>> are using to install? How old is the cable? Last thing strip it down to
>>> the bare minimum harwdare and install?
>>>
>>> JohnStanley
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>> I burned the CD images on Windows using Roxio and an AOpen DVD Read/ 
>> CDRW drive.
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>> The burned CD's test fine in more than one system.
>> I do have to test them with ide=nodma to get them to pass.
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>> The CD Drive and IDE Cable on the system I am trying to install is 5 
>> years old.
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>> I searched the CentOS site and mailing list for similar issues and found 
>> one dating back to last year.
>> The anaconda errors were similar.
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>> I finally got 5.2 to install and the fix was to tell the kernel to 
>> ignore the ide tape device.
>> The tape drive is on hdd and the following allowed me to do a GUI 
>> install with 512 MB.
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>> linux ide=nodma hdd=none
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> Just currious does the tape drive work since install? Would like like to
> know the brand of it also for reference.
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>> I thought I would post my result so that this request for help could be 
>> closed.
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>> Thanks for having this list to provide the avenue to a solution.
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> JohnStanley
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I have used mt and cpio to access the tape drive with and they work fine.

The tape drive is an ECRIX VXA-1a ATAPI TAPE drive.