Timothy Murphy wrote: > m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > >>> 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.) >> >> Dunno. Last time I brought down the DVD iso, I had no trouble just doing >> a straight d/l, no torrent. > > Where did you find the DVD ISO? > When I follow the download instructions at <http://www.centos.org/> > I am only offered "local", ie west european, mirrors, > and none of those I looked at had the DVD ISO; > all of them just had 8 CD ISOs. Ok, I had to search a little, and I am in the US, but I went to the mirror list, and picked from there. A few judicious checks - edu, rackspace, but then I saw "supercomputer center", and found a 2-part DVD iso at <http://mirrors.arsc.edu/centos/5/isos/x86_64/> > >> Mount the CD isos using loopback (mount -o loop), and copy. >> <snip> > > I didn't follow this. > Do you mean mount each of the 8 CDs using loopback? > And what exactly am I meant to copy? d/l the .iso's, mkdir /mnt/disk1 /mnt/disk2/... mount -o loop /whereeverIdl/centos_cd_disk1.iso /mnt/disk1 etc. mkdir /mnt/centos_dvd cp -p /mnt/disk1/* /mnt/disk2/*... /mnt/centos_dvd/ I mean, I'm not thinking about this a lot, but if that doesn't work, you could copy the rpms into the directory, or you could try cp -p /mnt/disk1/ /mnt/disk2/... /mnt/centos_dvd/ which would give you disk1... under /mnt/centos_dvd, and burn that onto one or two dvds. > > I need to indicate where "cobbler import" should look, I assume. > Worked *some* with Spacewalk, not really at all with cobbler, so I can't answer that. mark