Re: [tlug] RHEL/CentOS vs. latest hardware

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 10:36:24AM +0900, Darren Cook wrote:

> downloaded the CentOS 5 DVD, which they claim will be supported until
> the early 22nd century or something.
> 
> It didn't boot. Well it boots from DVD, is chugging along happily, asks
> me what media to install from, I say the DVD, and it says it has no
> driver for it. I say, "then what did you just read that error message
> from?, stupid" and it goes into a huff and won't speak to me any more.

Well, stop being rude to it.  :)

Seriously, if you have another machine, you could copy the DVD ISO to
that, mount it with NFS, and use askmethod at the boot prompt.  This is
assuming that once it gets past the DVD stage that it will find the hard
drive.  Errm, and that the card works.  

As you mention, Fedora is often a good shot with newer hardware.  It's
up to test8-3, which is frozen--I noticed that suddenly, aside from
saying 7.92, it's now saying 8, which means something I suppose.  Also,
somewhere along the line, there's a bunch of rpmnew files in my
yum.repos.d

I'd try the live CD first though, before downloading the DVD only to
find you have the same problem. 


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