Down C6 ALL Without Torrent ?

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Hi,

I have a machine with a BIOS that does not permit DVD installation. It accepts everything else including some old superseded media types.

Is it possible to download C6 combined parts 1 and 2 not using Torrent ?

I have an aversion to using anything that comes from unknown sources, as used by Torrent.

Thank you.

21 thoughts on - Down C6 ALL Without Torrent ?

  • Paul, you can go directly to the mirror server I maintain, it allows direct download of DVD images:

    http://bay.uchicago.edu/CentOS

    You may prefer mirror geographically closer to you.

    Good luck.

    Valeri

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    Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247
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  • Hi Valeri,

    I looked, but could not find a non-Torrent option for C6 combined parts
    1 and 2 …………..

    Index of /CentOS/6.9/isos/x86_64
    * Parent Directory
    * 0_README.txt
    * CentOS-6.9-x86_64-LiveDVD.iso
    * CentOS-6.9-x86_64-LiveDVD.torrent
    * CentOS-6.9-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso
    * CentOS-6.9-x86_64-bin-DVD1to2.torrent
    * CentOS-6.9-x86_64-bin-DVD2.iso
    * CentOS-6.9-x86_64-minimal.iso
    * CentOS-6.9-x86_64-minimal.torrent
    * CentOS-6.9-x86_64-netinstall.iso
    * CentOS-6.9-x86_64-netinstall.torrent
    * README.txt
    * md5sum.txt
    * md5sum.txt.asc
    * sha1sum.txt
    * sha1sum.txt.asc
    * sha256sum.txt
    * sha256sum.txt.asc

    I sought: CentOS-6.9-x86_64-bin-DVD1to2.iso

    I suppose I could copy DVD1 to a USB stick and then DVD2 to another USB
    stick ?

    It would be nice to have everything (part 1 and part 2) on the same bootable USB stick.

    Thank you.

  • Can we also challenge this “torrents are untrustworthy” attitude.

    You can be given an ISO from a shady character under a railway bridge, and as long as the ISO matches the checksums you can source directly from the CentOS
    https site (https://wiki.CentOS.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7), it’s as good as any other copy that’s ever been in existence.

    Why is a torrent source any worse than a copy off any of the official mirrors?

    Also, why not just make your life easy and do a netinstall? That way you don’t have to try to do anything you’re not comfortable with.

    jh

  • Having, successfully so far, resisted/repelled several devious attacks from the Russians, I am keen to maintain a clean, and thus secure, system as possible.

    I’d throw it away unused. Do not want the associated risks.

    That’s a good idea. Never done one of them before. I can put C6 on a CD
    and a USB and boot from either.

    Comfort-ability is not my criteria. The BIOS is supposed to be 4 or 5
    years old. It won’t boot from DVDs, yet it will boot from zip disks and other historic relics (LH120, I think one of the other choices was).

    Have a nice day.

    Thank you.

  • This is where you’re making a mistake. If you’re verifying checksums, you’re not taking an additional risk, beyond the risk of a hash collision. If you’re worried about sha256 hash collisions, I think you’re worrying about the wrong things.

    The important bit is getting the hash from a secure source, and bothering the check it.

    jh

  • Aha, now I understand what you want. It probably doesn’t exist on master repository server. You can re-master DVD from two of them or from a copy of content of both in some directory on hard drive.

    Thanks. Valeri

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    Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247
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  • If you don’t trust the sha256 hashes, there’s no reason to trust a download using https.

  • Doesn’t sound 4 to 5 years old, sounds 14 or 15 years old.

    Only manually as they are distinct ISO images, each of which would have to be obtained first then some work done to merge them. The CentOS
    project could produce an all-on-one image but I don’t know if it would be popular enough for them to expend the energy — maybe see if a SIG
    can be formed for the purpose.

    No reason should be necessary, but I’ve found it difficult to explain to security departments, and from time to time it attracts unwanted attention and can take a while for the incoming connections to stop (on a very limited bandwidth and/or high RTT service this can be quite annoying).

    Typically because a network connection isn’t available and/or wanted during install. There’s also the CentOS provided iPXE service if netinstall is acceptable, or a local netinstall e.g., using cobbler.

    /mark

  • As with others.. this sounds 15 years old. If it says it is 4 or 5
    years old.. I would be more leery of the hardware than torrents. (And I am very very leery of torrents but mostly because I spend time explaining to people that if your university blocks them I can’t fix it for you). In any case, I would do the following:

    Get a cdrom with CD1 data as this installs 99% of my systems I have dealt with. [I think out of a couple hundred, that 2 or 3 needed anything from the second disk when installing some obscure thing.] The second disk is mostly stuff you can install later. If you need more than that, you need to mirror the distribution locally and set up a pxe/tftpboot system which points to that mirror.

  • I was shocked when it would not install from a DVD.

    Can’t explain the “relic” new BIOS received in February 2013.

    Thank you. I like your idea of doing a DD from DVD1 to a USB stick and installing from the USB.

    Have a nice day.

  • Unsure how to remaster two DVDs, total 6GB?, onto a USB stick. I can copy both DVDs to a directory. To make the directory contents into a single ISO is, currently, beyond my knowledge but will Google.

  • Unsure how to remaster two DVDs, total 6GB?, onto a USB stick. I can copy both DVDs to a directory. To make the directory contents into a single ISO is, currently, beyond my knowledge but will Google.

    Just drop all rpms into the Packages Dir and you are done

    Cheers

    Juergen

  • Unsure how to remaster two DVDs, total 6GB?, onto a USB stick. I can copy both DVDs to a directory. To make the directory contents into a single ISO is, currently, beyond my knowledge but will Google.

    Just drop all rpms into the Packages Dir and you are done

    Cheers

    Juergen

    Oops, sorry i forgot that you should do a “createrepo /path/to/Packages after that (this will re-create the rpm index)

  • Ah great. Je vous merci. Danke vielmals.

    CentOS is true liberation from the dull and dreary world of Windoze. Happiness is an operating system as flexible as free CentOS. Thank you to everyone who makes, and has made, this possible.

    —
    Regards,

    Paul. England, EU. England’s place is in the European Union.

  • Thank you. I was unaware of repoview’s existence.

    The information provided by your illustration, for example:

    php56u-pecl-imagick – Provides a wrapper to the ImageMagick library

    prompts me into wondering whether CentOS has a searchable database for people to discover, in this instance, all the ImageMagick packages or all the PHP 5.6 packages.

  • You should be able to install most things with just DVD1, and there are good instructions on the CentOS Wiki about how to go about generating the USB stick ( https://wiki.CentOS.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey ), although I use ddrescue over just dd since it will optimize the blocksize for a bit faster read and write.

    There is a CentOS Wiki article on the subject of merging split ISOs into a single ISO; see https://wiki.CentOS.org/TipsAndTricks/CDtoDVDMedia
    (this covers merging multiple ISOs into a single ISO, which was originally most useful for taking multiple CDs and making a single DVD, but also works for merging two DVD ISOs into a single DVD ISO; I have used this script before).