Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, July 16, 2012 06:59:03 PM Tim Dunphy wrote: > >Have you tried using the minimal install iso? It will fit on a CD. > > Bingo! That was it. Thank you list! You guys rock. Always appreciate your > advice. Glad that worked! ___ CentOS mailing li

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-16 Thread Tim Dunphy
hey guys, sorry it took so long to get back to you. But I was finally able to do this. To recap: >Are you absolutely sure the install hangs forever? How long is forever? I have noticed too that at the end of the >installation, the system seems hung for quite some time on this package (or wh

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-12 Thread Stephen Harris
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 02:04:40PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Thursday, July 12, 2012 11:16:23 AM Lars Hecking wrote: > > The problem with the selinux rpms is that they need copious amounts of RAM > > during installation. From my experience, a minimum of 0.75 to 1GB. > But that's a good data

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, July 12, 2012 11:16:23 AM Lars Hecking wrote: > > > I think SELinux is a red herring in this case; I'm running upstream RHEL > > Server 6.3 32-bit with SELinux in enforcing mode on an older Supermicro > > system (motherboard P4DP6, has a DVD-ROM CD-RW drive in it) with the > > foll

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-12 Thread Lars Hecking
> I think SELinux is a red herring in this case; I'm running upstream RHEL > Server 6.3 32-bit with SELinux in enforcing mode on an older Supermicro > system (motherboard P4DP6, has a DVD-ROM CD-RW drive in it) with the > following CPU: The problem with the selinux rpms is that they need cop

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, July 12, 2012 05:49:50 AM Tim Dunphy wrote: > > # Turn off SELinux. > > selinux --disabled > > Might want to try that in addition to ripping out the RPMs, tho I'm not > sure doing both would be necessary. > Maybe it's the CPU that's having a problem with SELinux under CentOS 6? Tim,

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-12 Thread Tim Dunphy
>What if you symlink the shared nfs dir to /var/www/html/somedir and try >the http protocol? May help? Already tried using http, and got the same result. I don't think, therefore, that the method of install is the problem at all. I think there may be some hardware compatibility problem with that

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-11 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 07/12/2012 07:23 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: > In your kickstart file add this line: (this is for 5.x - not > tested it on 6.x yet) > > # Turn off SELinux. > selinux --disabled All the CentOS machines I've installed have had selinux set to disabled this way. However, the packet selinux-policy-tar

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-11 Thread Keith Roberts
On 07/11/2012 02:53 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > Guys, > > I've been trying to install centos 6.2, then 6.3 onto a > supermicro 6013P-8 which does not have a DVD rom drive. > Those newer version of CentOS only have DVD (not CD) iso > versions so I've been sharing the > install via NFS. > > With each

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-11 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 07/11/2012 02:53 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > Guys, > > I've been trying to install centos 6.2, then 6.3 onto a supermicro 6013P-8 > which does not have a DVD rom drive. Those newer version of CentOS only > have DVD (not CD) iso versions so I've been sharing the install via NFS. > > > With each try

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-11 Thread Andrew S Reis
Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Phil Savoie Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 6:10 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird Hi Tim, What if you symlink the shared nfs dir to /var/www/html/somedir and try

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-11 Thread Phil Savoie
Hi Tim, What if you symlink the shared nfs dir to /var/www/html/somedir and try the http protocol? May help? Phil On 07/11/2012 02:53 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > Guys, > > I've been trying to install centos 6.2, then 6.3 onto a supermicro 6013P-8 > which does not have a DVD rom drive. Those newe