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?
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