On 08/28/2011 09:17 PM Always Learning wrote: > On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 21:06 -0400, ken wrote: > >> When I downloaded the iso for 6.0 install, K3b said the iso wouldn't fit >> on the blank DVD. > > I remember reading that there are two main DVD formats + and -. One has > (more?) error correction than the other and therefore everything may not > fit on that type of DVD. Centos 5.6 for X64 requires 2 DVDs. Okay, that's the problem. Well, it shouldn't be a problem really, but that's why I have it and others don't. > > Which version did you download ? Yeah, it was the i386. > >> So I downloaded and burned the LiveDVD. When I boot it, I get the blue >> splash screen (it says "CentOS... Community Enterprise OS on the bottom, >> logo to the right), but nothing else comes up. Hitting various keys >> does nothing. > > Are you able to do a read integrity test of any of the DVDs ? The md5sum on the download checked out. I didn't verify the copy of the burned DVD though. I burned the DVD from the CLI with growiso. I couldn't think immediately how to do an md5sum on the DVD, so didn't. I just googled for how to do this. The info I found wasn't helpful. > >> Downloaded and burned the Netinstall CD. It gives an error message that >> it can't install because the machine's CPU doesn't have pae. > > Recently someone wrote that PAE related to i386 but was not required for > x64. What CPU type is your target machine ? Broadly speaking it's a pentium i686, but without pae. The fact that this machine is excluded from RH/CentOS doesn't bode well for Linux. > >> So is it the end of CentOS/RH for this machine? (I can't believe that. >> One of the great things about Linux has always been that it'll run on >> old hardware.) Or are these fixable problems? Or are there workarounds? > > That used to be true but it is inevitable as 'modern' distributions get > more capable not all current distributions cater for older spec. > equipment. I hear there are other, non-Centos, distributions that do > cater for less technically advanced machines. Well, since I've got two or three other machines I'm either upgrading or installing linux on, machines that are older than this one, I guess I'm done with RH/CentOS. > > I'm waiting for Centos 6.1 before I try version 6. Do you think hardware restrictions will be lessened in 6.1? > >> Or should I go for a different distribution? > > Have you tried Scientific Linux ? It is another Red Hat clone closely(?) > related to Centos. Thanks for the tip. I'll have a look.