Michael Peterson wrote: ... > I burned the CD images on Windows using Roxio and an AOpen DVD Read/ > CDRW drive. > > 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. > > The CD Drive and IDE Cable on the system I am trying to install is 5 > years old. > > I searched the CentOS site and mailing list for similar issues and found > one dating back to last year. > The anaconda errors were similar. > > 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. > > linux ide=nodma hdd=none > > I thought I would post my result so that this request for help could be > closed. > > Thanks for having this list to provide the avenue to a solution. Thanks for posting the solution for posterity to close it out. BTW - I think it is a convention to add "SOLVED" in the subject to indicate closure. Phil