[CentOS] hard disk install failure

[Timothy Murphy]

m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:

>> I suppose there could be something relevant on the 2nd DVD,
>> although the first has been sufficient to install in 3 other ways:
>> 1) via HTTP from another machine on my home LAN;
>> 2) after copying the DVD-1of2 to a USB stick; and
>> 3) it was also sufficient on a machine with a DVD drive.
>> (The machine I was trying the hard disk install on-
>> an HP MicroServer - has no DVD drive.)
> 
> You could put everything on an 8G USB key.

As I mentioned, I had already installed CentOS on a USB key,
using just the first DVD.
I was really just experimenting with a hard disk installation.

>> Now I have to work out how to install Windows on the machine,
>> but I daren't ask about that here ...
>> I need it because my ISP claims to have tripled the speed
>> of my supply, but says I have to run a Windows CD
>> to setup the modem he has given me.
> 
> ?? What kind of modem? Linux handles almost everything. Certainly, I
> didn't need to install WinDoze to work with the DSL modem I got from
> Verizon.

The modem is a ZyXEL P-660HW-T1 WiFi modem/router (made in China).
It works fine, but my speed is not 3 times what it was before!
My ISP (Eircom) claims I have to run the configuration utility
on the Windows CD to get "up to speed".
I doubt if this is true, but I guess I ought to try it.



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