Michael Peterson wrote: > Scott Silva wrote: > >> on 3-11-2009 1:44 PM Michael Peterson spake the following: >> >> >>> William L. Maltby wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 16:37 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> I used google but did not come up with anything current to solve my problem. >>>>> I have not tried any other search engines yet. >>>>> There is not a search for the CentOS list so I am creating a new post. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> See below - it's really hard to find. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> I have tested the CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 CD's and they passed. >>>>> I had to use linux mediacheck ide=nodma to get them to pass. >>>>> The newest releases seem to most times fail with just linux mediacheck. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Try making the media after padding the iso image with about 300k of >>>> zeros. When you search the archives (there is a search - I'll mention >>>> below) there are a couple of threads about this. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> I have tried linux ide=nodma and >>>>> linux text ide=nodma after trying >>>>> linux and >>>>> linux text >>>>> >>>>> Anaconda fails on both CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 in all cases. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> With only 512MB or ram you will have to use text mode only, IIRC. Also >>>> in the archives. There's also some threads that mention noacpi, acpi=no >>>> and some other stuff I can't recall. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> The system I am trying to install on is running CentOS 3.x. >>>>> >>>>> The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, >>>>> ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive. >>>>> >>>>> Please provide any options to the kernel that I should try besides the >>>>> ones mentioned above that fail. >>>>> <snip> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> For your google searches, go to the advanced section and specify >>>> centos.org. That gets what's in the archives. To search directly from >>>> CentOS site, click "Search" on http://centos.org/ >>>> >>>> HTH, >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> The system I am trying to install on boot with out problems or errors on >>> the 5.2 Live CD. >>> Gui works >>> Firefox and Network work >>> >>> I tried the options mentioned and more and get the same errors. >>> They are: >>> >>> Starting graphical installation ... >>> Traceback (most recent call last): >>> File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 900, in ? iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes() >>> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py". line 264, in makeDriveDeviceNodes >>> isys.makeDevinode(device, "dev /%s" % (device,)) >>> File "/usr/lib/anaconda.isys.py", line 422, inmakeDevInode >>> _isys.mkdevinode(name,fn) >>> SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory') >>> install exited abnormally [1/1] >>> sending termination signals ... done >>> >>> >>> The RHEL 5.3 boot disk is the same as above except the line 900 is 924. >>> >>> I have tried text and GUI and ide=nodma pci=noacpi with both. >>> >>> >> Can you see and write to the hard disks with the Live CD? >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> > > The Live CD can see and access the 3ware RAID connected drives. > It is using the swap partition. > I was able to switch to root and remount a file system read-write and > copy files from one mount point to another. > I then deleted the files with no problem. > > I will try to boot CentOS 5.1 CD 1 on Monday and see what results I get. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > CentOS 5.1 NetInstall CD or CD1 both error out with the same results as 5.2 in anaconda. CentOS 4.4 CD 1 which uses the older style install method boots and looks like it could install on the system. I would really like to get CentOS 5.2 or 5.3 installed on the system if there is a work around.