[ale] CentOS 5.6 64Bit Install

[Jim Kinney]

???
5 has dvd option but not all mirrors carried it. Those that didn't provided
torrent only. GT dropped dvd (?!?) but kernel.org kept up dvd isos.
On Aug 8, 2011 8:33 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> wrote:
> One thing that annoyed me with CentOS 5 was that they went to torrent for
the x86_64 DVD and only have the CD ISOs for regular download. If your
behind web blocking stuff that doesn't like torrents you're forced to do the
Cds. At least with 6 they've got ISOs for the DVDs.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Geoffrey Myers
> Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 9:35 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] CentOS 5.6 64Bit Install
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> On Aug 5, 2011, at 7:53 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:
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>> Yes, I have a DVD drive, but what I don't have is the "know-what" and a
little of the "know-how" to put on the DVD(s). Here is the link on GT mirror
site for CentOS 5.6
http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/5.6/os/x86_64/images/, what do I need
to pull down from among those files to make a successful install? In what
order?
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> Wrong directory tree, you want this:
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> http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/5.6/isos/x86_64/
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> Although they don't appear to have the DVD image there. There is a torrent
image there:
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http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD.torrent
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> I'm pretty sure I downloaded the DVD directly from GA Tech a while back.
Not sure why they don't have a DVD to download.
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>> Thanks,
>> GC
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>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:09 PM, handran <handran at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> On 8/5/2011 6:17 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:
>>> Charles,
>>>
>>> This is a bare metal install on a new system with 2 mirrored boot drives
and 2 mirrored 1TB storage drives off a 3Ware controller. Plenty of room,
but no previous OS installed, I also have a DVD drive in the system, I just
don't know what other files.
>>>
>>> I can see why lots of folks like Ubuntu, at least last time I installed
Ubuntu server 8.4(?) it booted off the DVD and installed w/o any problems.
Sure seems easier to a noob like me!
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>>> Greg
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>> Looks like you need 8 CD iso's or 2 DVD iso's.
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>> Available here:
>> http://ftp.usf.edu/pub/centos/5/isos/x86_64/
>> http://mirrors.rit.edu/centos/5.6/isos/x86_64/
>> http://linux.mirrors.es.net/centos/5.6/isos/x86_64/
>> ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.6/isos/x86_64/
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