[CentOS] 6.0 Media problems

[Rob Kampen]

ken wrote:
> On 08/30/2011 10:10 AM Karanbir Singh wrote:
>   
>> hi Ken,
>>
>> On 08/30/2011 03:04 PM, ken wrote:
>>     
>>> <http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=15>  would be one
>>> place.  But, given the way search engines might index pages, people
>>> could bypass that page and land directly on the mirrors page,
>>> <http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=13>, and so miss
>>> the warning altogether.
>>>       
>> How about a Readme file ( please propose something ) that would go into 
>> the ISOS directory on all machines ? eg: 
>> http://centos.mirror.netelligent.ca/centos/6/isos/x86_64/
>>
>> that might be a good place to have a url pointing at the release notes, 
>> perhaps a few workds on what the sha sums are and how people can verify 
>> them, and the various media formats ( livecd, dvd, cd, netinstall, 
>> torrents ).
>>
>> If you want to put something together, we could add that in right away. 
>> And I'll add a note to the release process to make sure its updated, 
>> maintained into the future releases.
>>
>>     
>>> In addition, if it happens, per your other email in this thread, that
>>> it's possible to offer another CentOS distribution which doesn't require
>>> PAE, then we'd need a distinguishing name for those ISOs.
>>>       
>> right, that would be a bit of a journey down the road. Step 1 would be 
>> to find a solution to the PAE-needed issue, then make sure there is some 
>> mechanism in place ( manual or otherwise ) to carry that work forward 
>> into the updates, finally come up with a delivery ( install ) mechanism. 
>> It should just be a case of an alternative installer with the 
>> works-with-pae-absent kernel.
>>
>> - KB
>>     
>
> Hi, KB,
>
> Congratulations.  You parsed out my mixed up email.  I somehow replied
> to one issue in the wrong email.  I shouldn't reply to email while
> listening to news about hurricanes and floods and before I'm well into
> my second cup of coffee.
>
> As for the readme... or PRE-DOWNLOAD-README...
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> To burn this ISO to DVD, you need to use a DVD-RW drive and compatible
> media.  Due to a difference in formatting, this ISO will not fit on a
> DVD+ disk.
>   
It may be a DVD-R - does not need to be a RW
> In addition, CentOS 6.0 requires a PAE-capable CPU.  This distribution
> will not run otherwise.  On Linux do "cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep ^flags" to
> see if "pae" is mentioned there.  If not, use a different distribution.
>
> See the CentOS wiki for more information.  <URL>
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> Others might have other language to include.
>
> Do we have translators for users who prefer something non-English?
>
>
>
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