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. > 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? I need to indicate where "cobbler import" should look, I assume. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland