Can't install CentOS4

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Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Ajay Sharma wrote:
> 
>> My email server is running CentOS 3 and I can't upgrade it to 
>> CentOS 4 using the CD's.  At first I thought it was the old 
>> Megaraid card (that's no longer supported), so I replaced that with
>>  a new card. I've tried ISO's from CentOS 4, 4.1 and now 4.2 which 
>> I've tested and booted in other machines.  Just not this one.
> 
> 
> if the cd-rom wont boot this machine, when it does boot on another 
> machine - the most likely cause would be bad cd-rom or cd-rom cant 
> read cd-media.

I guess that's possible, but wouldn't it crap out on the "Loading
vmlinuz....." part?  It freezes up right in the middle of kernel 
hardware detection phase.

> you could try booting over the network using PXE or just use the 
> kernel+initrd from the pxe images, add them to the local grub loader,
>  boot into a network install.

It certainly something to try....

> remember that there is no CentOS3 to CentOS4 upgrade path, you need 
> to boot with the  'upgradeany' option and force CentOS4 onto the 
> machine.
>
> Perhaps, as has already been suggested, a fresh install might be 
> better ?

Whoops, I forgot to mention that in my email.  I'm not upgrading the 
machine, I'm going to wipe it out and install a clean copy of CentOS4. 
I only broght up CentOS 3 to show that the machine isn't 'broken' and 
I'm able to install linux on there.  It just doesn't like CentOS 4 for 
some reason.


Tony Wicks wrote:
> If you are having too many problems upgrading and don't want to start
>  from scratch, why not stay put on Centos3.x ?

Just to be clear, I am starting from scratch.  When I boot from the CD 
it loads fine but then freezes right after the kernel says something 
about the AGP video card.

And I want to upgrade for the 2.6 kernel and I also want to put reiserfs 
on this server.  The machine is getting a little old and I think this 
will help the performance for the next year or two before we retire it 
for good.

--Ajay


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