On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 14:15 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: > JohnS wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 15:21 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: > > > > > >> I would really like to get CentOS 5.2 or 5.3 installed on the system if > >> there is a work around. > >> > > --- > > 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 > > > 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 Just currious does the tape drive work since install? Would like like to know the brand of it also for reference. > 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. JohnStanley