Paul wrote:
On Sun, April 22, 2007 12:13 am, Paul wrote:
On Sat, April 21, 2007 10:06 pm, Robert wrote:
Paul wrote:
On Sat, April 21, 2007 4:38 pm, centos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:09:48 -0400 (EDT)
"Paul" <unix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I can load Centos 4.4 fine, but 5 won't even begin to load, it
can't even read the kernel from the CD. I got another cheaper
laptop, and that one loads fine with Centos 5, the same DVD I
try in the Pro-star laptop. What would cause that? I've never
seen it before. I'm trying to load DVD x86 32bit DVD. Thanks.
You haven't mentioned what kind of hardware, CPU & video card...
but it could be that your laptop is a Via chipset or a 586...
which are not currently supported by CentOS5.
Detailed specs:
http://pro-star.com/index.cfm?mainpage=spec&model=8854
You also have not mentioned at what point it crashes.
It crashes at the very first step. Well, not really crashes, it gives
me
an error. At the very first screen it that the CD boots up on, with
the
f1, f2, f3, f4, f5 selections, then it defaults to "boot:" prompt. And
I
usually just hit enter to boot up on the CD for installation. When I
hit
enter to boot, or times out to boot automatically, it gives the error:
"Could not find kernel image: linux"
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I would start by burning a new CD or DVD at a reduced speed.
With the same DVD, I can load it fine on a different laptop just fine.
For the heck of it, I burned a DVD+R besides the DVD-R, and same thing.
I guess that was a useless excersise, cause the Centos 4.4 that loads fine
is the same type of DVD. But I'm just shooting blind now. ;->
1. Does the boot.iso image boot?
2. Does your laptop support pxe?
Either way, with a minimal LAN, you can set up a network install and do
use http (maybe off the Internet) or nfs.
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John
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