Another win for CentOS for me

bigbearomaha · Post by **bigbearomaha** » 2010/02/08 17:18:38

just thought I'd drop a line.

I am the IT admin for a local school and we had about 40 Dell workstations donated from a local telemarketing company. These came with blanked hd's and no cd drives.

I am having to re install on to these machines and after going through about 5 other distros, which these machines just have trouble with. Debian based distros just don't want to boot with a fight, others will boot then fail anywhere between partitioning the hd to loading the desktop.

I finally dug out my Cent 5.0 DVD and gave that a whirl, it installed without a single problem. The way an install should be.

so after doing a very slow upgrade to 5.4 on the test machine, I am going to download the 5.4 dvd and use that for a network install base.

Great work to all the CentOS folks.

Big Bear

AlanBartlett · Post by **AlanBartlett** » 2010/02/08 18:13:20

Thanks for the update.

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Great work to all the CentOS folks.
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I'll ensure that your appreciation is passed on.

Later Edit: Here's the link, [b]Big Bear[/b] -- http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2010-February/005406.html ;-)

lostson · Post by **lostson** » 2010/02/08 18:22:13

That is great to hear thanks for the positive feedback!