On 07/27/2010 11:57 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Benjamin Franz<jfranz at freerun.com> wrote: > >> The closest I have is a P3 with 1 GByte of RAM over HTTP using the 5.4 >> netinstall CD that I installed several months ago (I keep a local mirror >> of the CentOS tree). That worked fine for me. My first thought on a >> machine that old would be either flaky memory or or a flaky CD drive. I >> would run memtest86+ on them and then try a network install. You can >> mount the DVD ISO on loopback on a webserver for an install source. >> > Benjamin, > > Thank you, those are excellent suggestions. I will try that, most likely. > > By the way - since it sounds like you have the experience - how easy > is it to mirror CentOS repositories locally? How much space do I need, > roughly? > I exclude the testing, build, apt, ia64, s390, s390x, and alpha sub-trees. The 5.5 tree (minus those) takes about 36 Gbytes. During an update cycle with a new release you can expect about double that between the old and new trees. It is pretty easy - I just run a nightly rsync against a good public mirror. -- Benjamin Franz