[K12OSN] K12LTSP RHEL 5 64 Bit Install Errors

Brian Chivers brian at portsmouth-college.ac.uk
Mon Aug 18 13:12:11 UTC 2008


I downloaded & installed the 64Bit CD's the other day without issue. Used Nero to burn the iso's.

Brian

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 23:00 -0400, Moon wrote:
>> Hello, I downloaded both the K12LTSP 5EL 64bit CDs and 64bit DVD.
>> First, the K12LTSP 5EL 64bit DVD will not burn using CentOS 5.2 or
>> using MagicISO or Nero on WinXP platform. The file is simply too
>> large. I then tried installing using the 8 K12LTSP 5EL 64bit CDs on an
>> ABIT AV8 AMD Athlon 64 3700+ based school server. The installation
>> terminates after running through disk 8 with no discernable error
>> message other than there was an error and gives me a reboot button. 
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> You must use a double-layer DVD for the burn for the 64-bit image. Then
> it works OK. The 64-bit OS has many more libs than the 32 as it must
> also support 32-bit applications. Thus the larger size. By the time the
> LTSP and school applications are added, it simply won't fit on a single
> layer DVD. Try installing from the network install process. Burn a CD of
> the image.iso file from the images directory and make the loop-back
> mounted DVD image available through a NFS or HTTP share process. 
> 
> Make sure when using any home burned CD/DVD that the image files have
> their MD5/SHA1 checksum verified and then the first time they are used
> it is best to do the disk check process on each disk to verify the burn
> was accurate. 
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>> I have used this same hardware platform to run 64bit CentOS 5.2
>> workstation and server previously. I then installed K12LTSP 5EL 32bit
>> using the DVD with success. 
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>> Can you advise if there will be an updated K12LTSP 5EL 64bit CDs and
>> 64bit DVD to correct these issues?
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>> Please advise.
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>> Thank you,
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>> Charlie
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