On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 15:10 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: > on 3-27-2009 1:07 PM Michael Peterson spake the following: > > 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. > It must resemble a hard drive just enough to confuse the installer. -- That's why I wondered and wanted to know. Seems like BSD has the same problem with the same tape drive. JohnStanley