On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 03:49:21PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm trying to install CentOS-5.5 on my new HP micro-server, which has > no CD drive. > > I've set up cobbler and cobbler-web on my old server, and can access > cobbler-web from my laptop. > > I have 3 queries about the installation. > > 1. Is there any advantage is using the 64-bit CentOS rather than > 32-bit? > > 2. The CentOS OS seems to be available in 7 or 8 CDs. (I tried > downloading the DVD ISO with ktorrent, but this was a complete > failure. It started OK, but then created literally thousands of > links to one file, which brought my server down, and left it in a > state which was quite hard to clean up.) > > But how exactly do I "cobbler import" these? I see that for Fedora > on my laptop I ran > sudo cobbler import --path=/mnt/dvd --name=F14-i386 > > 3. Is there actually a way of converting the 7 or 8 CD ISOs into a > DVD ISO? I saw instructions that suggested concatenating them, and > then running rsync against a DVD ISO, at > <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-January/104448.html>. > I tried the site recommended, but could not access the DVD ISO. > > In fact, if I could access a DVD ISO, couldn't I download it > directly? So what would be the point of this exercise? Why not use the netinstall ISO rather than download everything? Recreating a DVD image from the ISO's _is_ possible, but honestly, not worth the work, IMHO. Perhaps the LiveCD ISO would be an option as well (I belive you can install from it). x86_64 is useful if you're going to have a lot of memory or large file systems. Ray