[CentOS] libwpd/libwpd-devel deps screwed?

2009-06-07 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
# yum install libwpd-devel Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package libwpd-devel.i386 0:0.8.7-3.el5 set to be updated --> Processing Depend

Re: [CentOS] libwpd/libwpd-devel deps screwed?

2009-06-07 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
Oh, sorry, fixed it with rpm -iv --force libwpd-0.8.7-3.el5.i386.rpm rpm -iv --nodeps libwpd-devel-0.8.7-3.el5.i386.rpm I suppose the RPM database is too fragile by design. R-C __ Make your browsing faster, safer, and eas

[CentOS] please help: Linux Kernel must be loaded before initrd

2009-06-07 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi, One of my servers in a IDC in another country mysteriously went down this morning, and when I contacted the IDC, I was told that XEN doesn't boot up, as follows: [QUOTE] This is error message on the screen " Error 19: Linux Kernel must be loaded before initrd" Server is currently up with 2nd

[CentOS] Basic setup for vsftpd ?

2009-06-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'm currently fiddling with G4U (Ghost for Unix), and I need to setup a local FTP server in order to get it to work. # yum groupinstall "FTP Server" --> installed vsftpd Here's what I'd like to do : * no anonymous access * only one user (user 'install' / pass 'install') The machine I'm in

Re: [CentOS] Basic setup for vsftpd ?

2009-06-07 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently fiddling with G4U (Ghost for Unix), and I need to setup a > local FTP server in order to get it to work. > > # yum groupinstall "FTP Server" --> installed vsftpd > > Here's what I'd like to do : > > * no anonymous access >

Re: [CentOS] Basic setup for vsftpd ?

2009-06-07 Thread Giuseppe Fuggiano
Edit /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf 2009/6/7 Niki Kovacs : > Hi, > > I'm currently fiddling with G4U (Ghost for Unix), and I need to setup a > local FTP server in order to get it to work. > > # yum groupinstall "FTP Server" --> installed vsftpd > > Here's what I'd like to do : > > * no anonymous access

[CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'm currently experimenting with G4U (Ghost for Unix), a small cloning application sending disk images to an FTP server. The application reads the whole disk bit by bit, compresses it and then stores it remotely. Due to this approach, it's more or less filesystem-independent. The drawback

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 07.06.2009 um 18:22 schrieb Niki Kovacs: > Hi, > > I'm currently experimenting with G4U (Ghost for Unix), a small cloning > application sending disk images to an FTP server. > > The application reads the whole disk bit by bit, compresses it and > then > stores it remotely. Due to this approa

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Rainer Duffner a écrit : > Ideally, the zero'ing of the disk should take place before the OS is > installed, via a boot-cd and using dd with the disk-device itself Erm... how exactly would you go about that? Let's say I want to do that with a Knoppix boot CD, and the only hard disk I have on t

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
In my previous experience, zeroing the disk will result in smaller files for G4U but it will take awhile depending on many factors including the size of the disk, performance, etc.. Also, I recommend giving Clonezilla (http://clonezilla.org/) a try. It offers more options than G4U and is more effi

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Rainer Duffner wrote: > Am 07.06.2009 um 18:22 schrieb Niki Kovacs: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm currently experimenting with G4U (Ghost for Unix), a small cloning >> application sending disk images to an FTP server. >> >> The application reads the whole disk bit by bit, compresses it and >> then >> store

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Jun 7, 2009, at 12:06 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Rainer Duffner a écrit : > >> Ideally, the zero'ing of the disk should take place before the OS is >> installed, via a boot-cd and using dd with the disk-device itself > > Erm... how exactly would you go about that? Let's say I want to do > that

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg a écrit : > > Niki, > > I suggest you look at partimage. > G4U seems similar, but partimage doesn't write free blocks to the > images, so you don't get these huge files. > It's worked well for me. > It's in rpmforge. Thanks for the suggestion. I just took a look at it. But

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Kevin Krieser a écrit : > > I've done the zeroing out thing on mounted filesystems before when I > wanted to move the contents of a drive to another. zeroing out before > would be best if you planned to do an install, then back it up for > later. Otherwise, you end up with a lot of unused

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Les Mikesell
Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently experimenting with G4U (Ghost for Unix), a small cloning > application sending disk images to an FTP server. > > The application reads the whole disk bit by bit, compresses it and then > stores it remotely. Due to this approach, it's more or less > fi

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 07.06.2009 um 19:27 schrieb Niki Kovacs: > Kevin Krieser a écrit : > >> >> I've done the zeroing out thing on mounted filesystems before when I >> wanted to move the contents of a drive to another. zeroing out >> before >> would be best if you planned to do an install, then back it up for >

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Rainer Duffner a écrit : > > Ever booted a live-CD? > It also knows your disks (unless it's a server, except for maybe the > CentOS LiveCD, most other's suck on servers - they simply don't > recognize the controllers). The question was not about the LiveCD, but more about the use of dd. So,

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 07.06.2009 um 19:54 schrieb Niki Kovacs: > Rainer Duffner a écrit : >> >> Ever booted a live-CD? >> It also knows your disks (unless it's a server, except for maybe the >> CentOS LiveCD, most other's suck on servers - they simply don't >> recognize the controllers). > > The question was not ab

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Rainer Duffner a écrit : > Yup. > If you have the time, you can experiment with the blocksize and see > where the throughput is best. > http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-09/msg01375.html Interesting thread. Guess I'll give it a few spins with different blocksizes (

Re: [CentOS] OT: looking for a rsync equivalent for Windows platforms

2009-06-07 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Jerry Franz wrote: > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Does anyone know of a good & free rsync type program for Windows > > platforms? Like most of us, I need to work on both Windows & Linux > > environments, and would like to sync some data (music, videos, ph

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Jun 7, 2009, at 12:34 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Niki Kovacs wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm currently experimenting with G4U (Ghost for Unix), a small >> cloning >> application sending disk images to an FTP server. >> >> The application reads the whole disk bit by bit, compresses it and >> then >>

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Jun 7, 2009, at 12:54 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Rainer Duffner a écrit : >> >> Ever booted a live-CD? >> It also knows your disks (unless it's a server, except for maybe the >> CentOS LiveCD, most other's suck on servers - they simply don't >> recognize the controllers). > > The question was no

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Jun 7, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Rainer Duffner a écrit : > >> Yup. >> If you have the time, you can experiment with the blocksize and see >> where the throughput is best. >> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-09/msg01375.html > > Interesting thread. Gu

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread John R Pierce
Niki Kovacs wrote: > Rainer Duffner a écrit : > > >> Yup. >> If you have the time, you can experiment with the blocksize and see >> where the throughput is best. >> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-09/msg01375.html >> > > Interesting thread. Guess I'll give i

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Les Mikesell
Kevin Krieser wrote: >> I'll second the recommendation for clonezilla. It knows enough about >> most filesystems (including windows ntfs) to only store the used >> blocks >> and it can use network storage over nfs, smb, or sshfs if you use the >> bootable CD clonezilla-live version. If you d

Re: [CentOS] BBC Player in firefox?

2009-06-07 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Jeff wrote: > Hi, I am new to Centos and have installed the 5.3  64bit desktop. > Managed to get the Adobe 64bit flash working so i can now watch Youtube > but when i try to get the video link working on BBC News i get the black > square screen with the white circle

Re: [CentOS] Dell Poweredge R300

2009-06-07 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Nicholas wrote: > Kai, > > > I meant that it could not complete the 64bit installation. > > What debugging steps did you try? The R300 is a pretty new box (newer than 5.2 ) and so may need updated APIC and equivalent items. Sometimes this can be worked around with

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Jun 7, 2009, at 2:59 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Kevin Krieser wrote: > >>> I'll second the recommendation for clonezilla. It knows enough >>> about >>> most filesystems (including windows ntfs) to only store the used >>> blocks >>> and it can use network storage over nfs, smb, or sshfs if yo

[CentOS] RealTek 8168B (Rev 02) Issue

2009-06-07 Thread Ben Mohilef
The 8168B (02) NIC works well except that it does not go into promiscuous mode despite advertising itself in that mode after being so directed with ifconfig. Unfortunately, the little box is destined to be an IDS monitor, so that function is essential. The board is an Intel Atom 330 run as x86

Re: [CentOS] BBC Player in firefox?

2009-06-07 Thread Hugo Hackenbush
Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Jeff wrote: > >> Hi, I am new to Centos and have installed the 5.3 64bit desktop. >> Managed to get the Adobe 64bit flash working so i can now watch Youtube >> but when i try to get the video link working on BBC News i get the black >> squ

[CentOS] Disabling IPv6 in CentOS 4.7

2009-06-07 Thread Stephen Harris
I thought I'd done that standard stuff /etc/modprobe.conf: alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off /etc/sysconfig/network: NETWORKING_IPV6=no But on reboot I still see ipv6 entries against the eth devices, ipv6 module is still loaded, and sit0 tunnel is present. What needs to be done t