Re: [CentOS] SquashFS: how good is it?

2010-10-12 Thread Chad Woolley
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:44 PM, JohnS wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 14:37 -0400, Boris Epstein wrote: >> Hello listmates, >> >> Have any of you used SquashFS? >> >> See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS >> >> We have tried it on small file sets, seems good but if you have >> experience u

Re: [CentOS] Why WOL? ( WAS: Re: Getting Wake on lan to work )

2010-10-11 Thread Chad Woolley
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Drew wrote: > On a semi-related subtopic, > > Why do I want WoL? What concrete examples are there where it's useful? > > I understand what it is and how it works but the "why" has eluded me. You want to VNC or SSH into a remote workstation that happens to be aslee

Re: [CentOS] OT: linux desktop market share more than 1%

2010-10-09 Thread Chad Woolley
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Bill Campbell wrote: > On the other hand, when she wanted to do things with digital photos from > here camera, she constantly had problems dealing with file transfers using > a USB flash card reader, mostly properly unmounting and/or finding the > proper data (she

Re: [CentOS] Where can I find list of "Core" and "Base" install groups?

2010-09-20 Thread Chad Woolley
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:52 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 07:42:41PM -0700, Chad Woolley wrote: >> e.g. what packages are in them, as well as other groups or >> group-related options which may exist... > >        "man yum"; look for grou

[CentOS] Where can I find list of "Core" and "Base" install groups?

2010-09-20 Thread Chad Woolley
e.g. what packages are in them, as well as other groups or group-related options which may exist... Thanks, -- Chad ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Amazon Linux AMI based on CentOS?

2010-09-20 Thread Chad Woolley
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Chad Woolley wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Eric Feldhusen > wrote: >> It appears to be, based on the testing AMI I've deployed. > > What AMI id is this, please? I'm curious, because the in the EC2 AWS console AMI brows

Re: [CentOS] Amazon Linux AMI based on CentOS?

2010-09-20 Thread Chad Woolley
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Eric Feldhusen wrote: > It appears to be, based on the testing AMI I've deployed. What AMI id is this, please? Thanks, -- Chad ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How to simulate minimal ISO install using stage2 image file?

2010-09-19 Thread Chad Woolley
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Chad Woolley wrote: > I'm working on a project which automates creation of EC2 AMI images. > To do this, you must use a running EC2 instance to mount an image file > in a chroot jail. > > My problem is that I want to create an AMI that

Re: [CentOS] Using Make in frequent cron job

2010-09-19 Thread Chad Woolley
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > Is there a way to get Make to be silent when it does nothing, but have its > normal verbosity when something is made? You can write a wrapper script and run it in a subshell to capture the output. Pretend echo is make: a=$(echo 'made some

[CentOS] How to simulate minimal ISO install using stage2 image file?

2010-09-19 Thread Chad Woolley
Hello, I'm working on a project which automates creation of EC2 AMI images. To do this, you must use a running EC2 instance to mount an image file in a chroot jail. My problem is that I want to create an AMI that looks exactly like a minimal (nothing selected) install from the CentOS ISO image, b