Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-09 Thread Ioannis Vranos
It was a hardware problem with my DVD recorder. I got a new one and now everything works OK. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 09 April 2008 15:53:36 Ioannis Vranos wrote: It was a hardware problem with my DVD recorder. I got a new one and now everything works OK. When something that previously worked starts giving you problems it can be hard to spot. Glad you got it sorted. Anne signature.asc

RE: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-08 Thread Dennis McLeod
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ioannis Vranos Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 2:54 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems OS: Ubuntu 7.10 x86. Unfortunately I still got the problem. I downloaded the CentOS 5.1 x86 DVD image

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
Ioannis Vranos wrote: Unfortunately I still got the problem. :( vmware version: 6.03 with IDE virtual hard disk. vmware will let you use an ISO file as a CD-Rom or DVD-Rom drive, try pointing your vmware instance at the iso file, and bypass the physical DVD drive in your machine

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 07 April 2008 12:38, Ioannis Vranos wrote: Hi, I had downloaded CentOS 5.1 x86 DVD image, and although it passed sha1sum or md5sum test and I burned it verifying it, installation failed. Also if I recall correctly, when I tested the medium during install, it failed although as I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 07 April 2008 12:38, Ioannis Vranos wrote: Hi, I had downloaded CentOS 5.1 x86 DVD image, and although it passed sha1sum or md5sum test and I burned it verifying it, installation failed. Also if I recall correctly, when I tested the medium during install, it

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 07 April 2008 14:19, Ioannis Vranos wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 07 April 2008 12:38, Ioannis Vranos wrote: Hi, I had downloaded CentOS 5.1 x86 DVD image, and although it passed sha1sum or md5sum test and I burned it verifying it, installation failed. Also if I recall

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Alan Bartlett wrote: On 07/04/2008, *Ioannis Vranos* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The same things happen with Scientific Linux 5.1 x86 installation DVD, so perhaps it is a Red Hat EL 5.1 x86 DVD issue? This has to be a hardware specific issue as two distros

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread Johnny Hughes
Ioannis Vranos wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 07 April 2008 14:19, Ioannis Vranos wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 07 April 2008 12:38, Ioannis Vranos wrote: Hi, I had downloaded CentOS 5.1 x86 DVD image, and although it passed sha1sum or md5sum test and I burned it verifying it,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread John
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 09:02 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: Ioannis Vranos wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 07 April 2008 14:19, Ioannis Vranos wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 07 April 2008 12:38, Ioannis Vranos wrote: Hi, I had downloaded CentOS 5.1 x86 DVD image, and although it

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 07/04/2008, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ALSO ... if doing to VMWare, you can just point to the ISO file as a CDROM and boot from it directly. Try to install from that and see if it passes the media test. That should help determine if the problem is a bad DVD image when burned

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Johnny Hughes wrote: Now I am redownloading the CentOS 5.1 x86 DVD install image, and I will use the image itself first as a virtual DVD under vmware, and will try to verify the medium during install and see if it proceeds OK with installation. If it succeeds, I will burn it to a DVD-RW and

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread Ioannis Vranos
John wrote: Here's an issue with Kernel Panics that Ive had. It was not due to bad media etc.. As it turned out it was the bios settings. Either the Bios had to be set to Default Settings or APCI had to be turned off. Also overclocked processors will cause this also and bad ram. I have not

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Correction: Ioannis Vranos wrote: John wrote: Here's an issue with Kernel Panics that Ive had. It was not due to bad media etc.. As it turned out it was the bios settings. Either the Bios had to be set to Default Settings or APCI had to be turned off. Also overclocked processors will cause

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread Johnny Hughes
Ioannis Vranos wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: Now I am redownloading the CentOS 5.1 x86 DVD install image, and I will use the image itself first as a virtual DVD under vmware, and will try to verify the medium during install and see if it proceeds OK with installation. If it succeeds, I will burn

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread Karanbir Singh
Ioannis Vranos wrote: Hi, I had downloaded CentOS 5.1 x86 DVD image, and although it passed sha1sum or md5sum test and I burned it verifying it, installation failed. ok, I have read all your follow up messages in this thread and you have'nt actually mentioned how and when the install failed

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ioannis Vranos wrote: ok, I have read all your follow up messages in this thread and you have'nt actually mentioned how and when the install failed and with that message. exactly how are you doing the install ? what

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread John
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 17:37 +0300, Ioannis Vranos wrote: John wrote: Here's an issue with Kernel Panics that Ive had. It was not due to bad media etc.. As it turned out it was the bios settings. Either the Bios had to be set to Default Settings or APCI had to be turned off. Also

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread John
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 16:17 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: Ioannis Vranos wrote: Hi, I had downloaded CentOS 5.1 x86 DVD image, and although it passed sha1sum or md5sum test and I burned it verifying it, installation failed. ok, I have read all your follow up messages in this thread and you

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread Karanbir Singh
Akemi Yagi wrote: ok, I have read all your follow up messages in this thread and you have'nt actually mentioned how and when the install failed and with that message. I also read all his follow up messages. If I understood them correctly, he was going to use vmware to *test* whether or not

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread Karanbir Singh
John wrote: exactly how are you doing the install ? what sort of vmware do you have setup ? what kind of machine ? using a script / kickstart ? why are you using a physical media when vmware can directly install from iso. etc. And dont forget to mention how the install fails. How about use

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 14:38 +0300, Ioannis Vranos wrote: Hi, I had downloaded CentOS 5.1 x86 DVD image, and although it passed sha1sum or md5sum test and I burned it verifying it, installation failed. Also if I recall correctly, when I tested the medium during install, it failed although as