Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-23 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> What type of RAM modules are you looking for? I'm never quite sure how to find out. I know that there was a pretty descriptive label on one of them (with 200 MHz or something) and that's how I could find a similar one. Let me open them and find out and I'll contact you offlist. They would be mu

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-23 Thread Keith Roberts
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Mathieu Baudier > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements > >> break out your wallet, blow the dust out, and spend a few bucks on some RAM > > Sometimes the hardware i

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-23 Thread m . roth
Mathieu Baudier wrote: > I don't use them as cashier machines, just got them second hand. > They were so cheap that I bought one just to try, and then found it so > good that I bought the other three... > (I'm probably not the only one on this list who has computers all over > the place, and a wif

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-23 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> it, turn it off, and maybe uninstall. If these are PoS boxen, do you need > X windows? Do you need Gnome or KDE as windonw managers (look at smaller > ones - I use IceWM at home, < 600k, yes, k, not M; the other admin here > likes xfce)? I have the CentOS Extras XFCE on one of them (for which I

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-23 Thread m . roth
Mathieu Baudier wrote: >> break out your wallet, blow the dust out, and spend a few bucks on some RAM > > Sometimes the hardware is so old, that it is not as easy as that to find the right RAM for it... > > I have some very old IBM PoS cashier machines (sic! got them for 30 EUR each, plenty of conn

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-23 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> break out your wallet, blow the dust out, and spend a few bucks on some RAM Sometimes the hardware is so old, that it is not as easy as that to find the right RAM for it... I have some very old IBM PoS cashier machines (sic! got them for 30 EUR each, plenty of connectors, very well built) based

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/16/2010 10:22 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> Will (does) Centos 6 require 512Mb of memory for the GUI install like >> FC14 or the lower requirement of FC13? >> >> My ASUS EE 700 has ~490Mb of memory (vidoe steals some from the 512Mb >> base) and FC14 switches t

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-18 Thread R-Elists
please stop wasting your precious time break out your wallet, blow the dust out, and spend a few bucks on some RAM it is TOTALLY inexpensive and you can add some quality years to your life than to spend it in such painful and worrisome turmoil ;-> > I TOTALLY do not get your point. > > If you

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/16/2010 09:32 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > There never seemed to be a Disk Druid text support for LVM. If you do > not like the defaults (and I rarely do), you either have to be good with > kickstart (I am not) or use the Gui to set up the partitions as you want. system-config-kickstart doe

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/17/2010 05:29 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 11/16/2010 08:26 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> Yes, I was thinking about vnc console. >> >> back on Centos 5.2, I built a boot CD for it, and had to hard code the >> IP addr for my notebook for it. Then, perhaps once on FC12, it was a >> boo

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/16/2010 08:26 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Yes, I was thinking about vnc console. > > back on Centos 5.2, I built a boot CD for it, and had to hard code the > IP addr for my notebook for it. Then, perhaps once on FC12, it was a > boot option and actually easy to use. So I will have to look i

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-16 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:28:30 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 11/16/2010 12:36 PM, John Hodrien wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > > >> There never seemed to be a Disk Druid text support for LVM. If you do > >> not like the defaults (and I rarely do), you

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-16 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/16/2010 12:36 PM, John Hodrien wrote: > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > >> There never seemed to be a Disk Druid text support for LVM. If you do >> not like the defaults (and I rarely do), you either have to be good with >> kickstart (I am not) or use the Gui to set up th

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-16 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/16/2010 12:28 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 11/16/2010 05:22 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: > >> Errm, it was. In one more brilliant following of Fedora (watch us look >> like Windows), the text installer for 6 has been "streamlined and >> simplified" >> > well, you can always use the v

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-16 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:32:55 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 11/16/2010 12:22 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:57:30AM -0500, Robert Heller wrote: > > > >> At Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:22:45 -0500 CentOS mailing list > >> wrote: > >> > >> > >> X11 installer

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-16 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 05:25:00PM +, John Hodrien wrote: > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Scott Robbins wrote: > > > Errm, it was. In one more brilliant following of Fedora (watch us look > > like Windows), the text installer for 6 has been "streamlined and > > simplified" Whoever thought up that wor

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-16 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:22:06 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:57:30AM -0500, Robert Heller wrote: > > At Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:22:45 -0500 CentOS mailing list > > wrote: > > > > > > > X11 installer == game engine? I never use the GUI installer. It is > > quick

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-16 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > There never seemed to be a Disk Druid text support for LVM. If you do > not like the defaults (and I rarely do), you either have to be good with > kickstart (I am not) or use the Gui to set up the partitions as you want. > > For some test systems, whe

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-16 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/16/2010 12:22 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:57:30AM -0500, Robert Heller wrote: > >> At Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:22:45 -0500 CentOS mailing list >> wrote: >> >> >> X11 installer == game engine? I never use the GUI installer. It is >> quicker and easier to use

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/16/2010 05:22 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: > Errm, it was. In one more brilliant following of Fedora (watch us look > like Windows), the text installer for 6 has been "streamlined and > simplified" well, you can always use the vnc console - and kickstart lets you do most things. - KB ___

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-16 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Scott Robbins wrote: > Errm, it was. In one more brilliant following of Fedora (watch us look > like Windows), the text installer for 6 has been "streamlined and > simplified" Whoever thought up that wording probably thought up Windows > Genuine Advantage. > > Lemme know how

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-16 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:57:30AM -0500, Robert Heller wrote: > At Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:22:45 -0500 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > > > > X11 installer == game engine? I never use the GUI installer. It is > quicker and easier to use the text/console based installer. > Errm, it was. In one m

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-16 Thread m . roth
Robert Heller wrote: > At Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:22:45 -0500 CentOS mailing list > wrote: >> Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> > Will (does) Centos 6 require 512Mb of memory for the GUI install like >> > FC14 or the lower requirement of FC13? >> > >> > My ASUS EE 700 has ~490Mb of memory (vidoe steals some

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-16 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/16/2010 10:22 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> Will (does) Centos 6 require 512Mb of memory for the GUI install like >> FC14 or the lower requirement of FC13? >> >> My ASUS EE 700 has ~490Mb of memory (vidoe steals some from the 512Mb >> base) and FC14 switches t

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-16 Thread Digimer
On 11/16/2010 10:13 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Will (does) Centos 6 require 512Mb of memory for the GUI install like > FC14 or the lower requirement of FC13? > > My ASUS EE 700 has ~490Mb of memory (vidoe steals some from the 512Mb > base) and FC14 switches to text install and does not install a

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-16 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:22:45 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Will (does) Centos 6 require 512Mb of memory for the GUI install like > > FC14 or the lower requirement of FC13? > > > > My ASUS EE 700 has ~490Mb of memory (vidoe steals some from the 512Mb > > base)

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 installation memory requirements

2010-11-16 Thread m . roth
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Will (does) Centos 6 require 512Mb of memory for the GUI install like > FC14 or the lower requirement of FC13? > > My ASUS EE 700 has ~490Mb of memory (vidoe steals some from the 512Mb > base) and FC14 switches to text install and does not install any GUI, > leaving the bo