JohnS wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > 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.