On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 15:51 +0100, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > hello, > I am absolutely new, means from non-IT sector but have attraction > (developed recently) towards linux and have chosen the centos distro > for the installation as an OS in my home PC for personal use. I went > to the page: > http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/i386/ > But don't understand amongst the variety of options there. I also > don't know the technical terms like md5, etc...., You can ignore md5 for now - they are just for verifying that the file you've downloaded has not been modified. > can one directly give me the link for down loadable Cent OS 5.5 (which > is latest) and better if it is the torrent download. I guess there > would be only one file of .iso format which is to be burned and > installed. A DVD will be one image (file) and easier than x-of-n CDs.