on 3-27-2009 1:07 PM Michael Peterson spake the following: > JohnS wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 14:15 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: >> >>> JohnS wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 15:21 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> I would really like to get CentOS 5.2 or 5.3 installed on the system if >>>>> there is a work around. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> --- >>>> What are you using to burn the CDs? How old is the CD Drive that your >>>> are using to install? How old is the cable? Last thing strip it down to >>>> the bare minimum harwdare and install? >>>> >>>> JohnStanley >>>> >> >>>> >>>> >>> I burned the CD images on Windows using Roxio and an AOpen DVD Read/ >>> CDRW drive. >>> >>> The burned CD's test fine in more than one system. >>> I do have to test them with ide=nodma to get them to pass. >>> >>> The CD Drive and IDE Cable on the system I am trying to install is 5 >>> years old. >>> >>> I searched the CentOS site and mailing list for similar issues and found >>> one dating back to last year. >>> The anaconda errors were similar. >>> >>> I finally got 5.2 to install and the fix was to tell the kernel to >>> ignore the ide tape device. >>> The tape drive is on hdd and the following allowed me to do a GUI >>> install with 512 MB. >>> >>> linux ide=nodma hdd=none >>> >> Just currious does the tape drive work since install? Would like like to >> know the brand of it also for reference. >> >> >>> I thought I would post my result so that this request for help could be >>> closed. >>> >>> Thanks for having this list to provide the avenue to a solution. >>> >> JohnStanley >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > I have used mt and cpio to access the tape drive with and they work fine. > > The tape drive is an ECRIX VXA-1a ATAPI TAPE drive. It must resemble a hard drive just enough to confuse the installer.
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