Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 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?
If it runs 64 bit, you should use 64 bit. Unless you also have half the
cylinders on your car disabled, and.... <g>
>
> 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.
>
<snip cobbler question>
> 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.
Mount the CD isos using loopback (mount -o loop), and copy.
<snip>
mark
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