[CentOS] Re: Curiosity when installing CentOS 5.1 in addition to W98 WXP - SOLVED

2008-05-13 Thread MHR
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:47 PM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 5-12-2008 10:17 AM MHR spake the following: It might not have finished the install, and something made it reboot before it had written the grub

Re: [CentOS] Re: Curiosity when installing CentOS 5.1 in addition to W98 WXP - SOLVED

2008-05-13 Thread John R Pierce
MHR wrote: Turns out it looks like the DVD didn't burn quite right (even though K3B verified it) and the install aborted about 2/3 of the way through. if you have a newer '16X' or whatever DVD burner, tell your burning software to go no faster than 8X, and your disks will be 100% more

Re: [CentOS] Re: Curiosity when installing CentOS 5.1 in addition to W98 WXP - SOLVED

2008-05-13 Thread MHR
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:25 PM, John R Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you have a newer '16X' or whatever DVD burner, tell your burning software to go no faster than 8X, and your disks will be 100% more reliable I've noticed that - in my (now defunct) Emprex 16x burner, the 12x DVDs were

[CentOS] Re: Curiosity when installing CentOS 5.1 in addition to W98 WXP

2008-05-12 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-12-2008 10:17 AM MHR spake the following: I got half way through an installation of CentOS on a box that has Window$ 98 in the first partition and Window$ XP in the second, where CentOS was designated for partitions 3 (/boot - 128MB) and 4 (/) and had some strange results. During the

Re: [CentOS] Re: Curiosity when installing CentOS 5.1 in addition to W98 WXP

2008-05-12 Thread MHR
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 5-12-2008 10:17 AM MHR spake the following: It might not have finished the install, and something made it reboot before it had written the grub records. I figure I'll just start over and sit there to watch while I