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On Monday 28 March 2011 16:37:33 Timothy Murphy wrote: > m.roth@xxxxxxxxx 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. > You could try your local mirror ;-) ftp.heanet.ie:/pub/centos/5.5/isos/i386/CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-DVD.iso or ftp.heanet.ie:/pub/centos/5.5/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso and ftp.heanet.ie:/pub/centos/5.5/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-2of2.iso Tony > > 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. |
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