Am 28.03.2011 um 16:49 schrieb Timothy Murphy: > 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? > I'd use 32bit if you are sure you are never going to use more than 2GB RAM. Ever. > 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. I don't know what you did, but when I downloaded the torrent, it created only a handful of files. The DVD ISOs are available on my local mirror, so they should be elsewhere, too. > 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 Download the DVDs and import them.