On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 09:46:44AM -0400, fred smith wrote: > > Keith, I don't see that you identify what sort of old machine you're > trying to use. Ah, sorry: it's a beige box dual-core x86_64. So I am guessing that... > You should be aware that current versions of Centos/RHEL REQUIRE some > flavor of i686-class processor at minimum. that means Pentium Pro/Pentium II > or later. ...this doesn't apply; there were no such changes in the 64 bit branch, were there? I couldn't find anything in my searching yesterday. On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 01:06:01AM +1000, Christopher Hawker wrote: > This is just a random idea, but could you have burned the cd at a > speed higher than the optical drive can read? I burn all my software > at 4x because i know it will then work in any and every machine. That's a definite possibility! The machine I used for burning is also older, but its burner is definitely better than the drive on the target, which can't even read DVDs (as I found out when I tried to boot a CentOS 5 DVD I already had). I will try a new CD at a slower speed and see if it helps--it's a very quick operation, so even if it fails it's not much wasted time. --keith -- kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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