[K12OSN] K12LTSP RHEL 5 64 Bit Install Errors

[James P. Kinney III]

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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