Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

On 8.4.2011 02:54, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 4/7/11 7:28 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Les Mikesell wrote: >> > I assume that the lack of a CD drive on the HP micro-server > is a sign of things to come, > so I would hope there would be an official method of installing CentOS > on such

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

On 7 Apr 2011, at 00:18, Timothy Murphy wrote: > If anyone can suggest a simpler way of installing CentOS > on a machine without a CD drive I should be interested to hear. I keep a USB CD drive to hand for servers without optical drives. Slightly defeatist but much easier; just used for install

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

" The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and i

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

> > John, please stop cluttering the list with your complaining. It's > > making a right mess for those of that wish to discuss the project and > > its direction. > > Wow. Pot? Kettle? So, let me get this straight. People are > able to bitch, whine, complain and needlessly threat

Re: [CentOS] Can anyone suggest a SCSI 3 card in either PCI-X or PCI-E x 4 for a Dell Poweredge 2900?

On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:46:01 -0700 John R Pierce wrote: > On 04/07/11 10:51 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > Dell typically shipped Adaptec cards; I seem to remember 39160's > > being shipped in some 1850's I have. That would be more than > > enough performance for what you want, and they aren't expens

Re: [CentOS] Can anyone suggest a SCSI 3 card in either PCI-X or PCI-E x 4 for a Dell Poweredge 2900?

I like my Atto ExpressPCI UL5D. Supports LUNs > 2TB, which iirc, Adaptec still (?) doesn't. - csawyer   -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin Hackl Sent: 08 April 2011 10:31 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentO

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

Les Mikesell wrote: >> I tried dd-ing this to /dev/sdb (the USB stick). >> >> [tim@helen dvd]$ sudo cp images/diskboot.img /tmp >> [tim@helen dvd]$ cd /tmp >> [tim@helen tmp]$ sudo dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sdb >> 24576+0 records in >> 24576+0 records out >> 12582912 bytes (13 MB) copied, 0.7663

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

On 08/04/11 11:28, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >>> I re-formatted the USB stick under Windows, >>> and tried dd-ing diskboot.img to /dev/sdb1 >>> but the outcome was the same. > > I'll try again, now that I'm sure what you mean. > You might also have some luck with "unetbootin" (ht

[CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

Folks, it has been asked a few times: PLEASE STOP THE "6 UPDATE" THREAD now! Developers: please just stop responding to that thread. It's not necessary to defend yourselves over a certain point (that has long been reached). Non-devs: if you think you can make a valuable contribution to centos in

Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Folks, it has been asked a few times: PLEASE STOP THE "6 UPDATE" THREAD > now! > Developers: please just stop responding to that thread. It's not necessary > to defend yourselves over a certain point (that has long been reached). > Non-devs: if

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

On 08/04/11 03:06, Lucian wrote: > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Jerry Franz wrote: >> On 04/07/2011 03:52 PM, Scott Silva wrote: >>> >>> The GPL says they must release source. It doesn't say they have to also >>> release any magic spells they use to compile it. >>> >> >> Actually, it *does*. If

Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

> > I'm really tired of this. > > > > Ralph: please unsubscribe everyone who can't shut his mouth. Thanks. > > A lot of of less-vocal people will thank you. > > > > > > Kai > > > > > > ___ > > > > > Wow Kai, maybe you should suspend the mailing l

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

> > As I seem to have started this little subsection of the thread, please > let me give just one small example to help clarify the situation as it > appears there is still a lot of misunderstanding surrounding this issue. > > Let's look at kernel modules, kmod packages. They are built ag

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

Tom Grace wrote: > You might also have some luck with "unetbootin" > (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/), might also be in the CentOS repos. Yes, thanks, that was suggested before, and I have noted it as a possibility. But I'd like to get a more CentOS-centred method working, if I can. -- Tim

[CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

Hello CentOS developer team, thank you very much for the release of CentOS 5.6. I have upgraded my server, notebook, netbook and workstation from 5.5 to 5.6 and everything works really fine so far, CentOS 5.6 seems to be rock solid. The only little problem happens on the upgrade of my server, sin

Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

STOP IT! Kai ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

On 04/08/2011 02:37 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > STOP IT! > > Kai > > Who are you to say that? "The king or master of anything? If you don't like to read about people post, don't read. But I think you are nobody to say what is or not in this mailing list. In all cases, a moderator who has to say.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

On 4/8/11 5:28 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> It should go to the raw disk device, not a partition and you shouldn't >> need to >> format first. > > The reason I re-formatted it was that fdisk said > there was no valid partition table after dd-ing bootdisk.img onto /dev/sdb . I thought small usb d

Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

- Original Message > From: Kai Schaetzl > To: centos@centos.org > Sent: Fri, 8 April, 2011 13:37:19 > Subject: Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW! > > STOP IT! > > Kai If we carry on long enough, Godwin's Law will kick-in and that will be the end of it. I have had to bite my tong

Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

Am 04/08/2011 02:12 PM, schrieb Ian Murray: >>> I'm really tired of this. >>> >>> Ralph: please unsubscribe everyone who can't shut his mouth. Thanks. >>> A lot of of less-vocal people will thank you. >>> >>> Kai >>> ___ >>> >> >> >> Wow Kai, maybe y

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

Timothy Murphy wrote on 04/07/2011 08:47 AM: > Network Installation from CentOS Live CD will no longer be available. > (Why not, as a matter of interest?) Because network installs tend to be problematic for all but those with local repositories or flawless broadband network connections. Having i

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

Markus Falb wrote: >> Yes, my memory isn't that great, but it is in the install guide: >> http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en- US/ch02s04.html#id3098219 I did try the dd method again, but it didn't work for me. > My memory isnt great neither. There is a boot.iso mentioned inc

Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > STOP IT! Take a few deep breaths! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Kickstart and lvm

I've written some %pre code to grab a few files off a logical volume, if it exits, before the disk gets formatted, but can't get get it to work correctly. Essentially: %pre ... lvm vgscan lvm vgchange -a y ... if [ -d /dev/vol0 ]; then # do stuff fi lvm vgremove -f vol0 The problem is that /de

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

Les Mikesell wrote: > On 4/8/11 5:28 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> >>> It should go to the raw disk device, not a partition and you shouldn't >>> need to format first. >> >> The reason I re-formatted it was that fdisk said >> there was no valid partition table after dd-ing bootdisk.img onto >> /dev/

Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

Ian Murray wrote: >> From: Kai Schaetzl >> >> STOP IT! > > If we carry on long enough, Godwin's Law will kick-in and that will be the > end of it. I have had to bite my tongue several times! Natzis. Hitler. Tea Party Republicans This thread may now officially be declared dead. mark _

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

On 8.4.2011 14:58, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Markus Falb wrote: >> A more manual way to make usb stick bootable is described instead. >> Maybe you have more luck with that. >> dd method is not mentioned anymore. > > Thanks for that. > This method did work, although there is an error in the descript

Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

Mark- Thank you for taking one for the team. On Apr 8, 2011 9:23 AM, wrote: > > Ian Murray wrote: > >> From: Kai Schaetzl > >> > >> STOP IT! > > > > If we carry on long enough, Godwin's Law will kick-in and that will be the > > end of it. I have had to bite my tongue several times! > > Natzis.

Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

Good bye I've had enough for now. I'll be back, but not until Centos 7 is history. It's FREE deal with it!!! -- Thanks, Gene Brandt SCSA 8625 Carriage Road River Ridge, LA 70123 504-452-3250 Family Web Page | My Web Page | LinkedIn | Facebook | Resumebucket On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 09:30

Re: [CentOS] CentOSPlus kernel (Was: Centos 6 Update?)

On 04/07/2011 05:14 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Steve Clark wrote: On 04/07/2011 01:18 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: I had a quick look at the patches. The first one seems to be applicable without any modifications. The second one will need an adjustment. Akemi I just finish

Re: [CentOS] CentOSPlus kernel (Was: Centos 6 Update?)

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Steve Clark wrote: > On 04/07/2011 05:14 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > I have just installed the kernel and will now start testing. > > Great. Please keep us posted. If the patches work as expected, they > will be a worthy addition to the cplus kernel. > I got a kernel

[CentOS] how is "binary compatibility" determined?

Hi all! We've seen quite a few references on the list to "100% binary compatibility with upstream". What I am curious about is, how precisely is this determined? All the ways I can think of for comparing how two systems might work seem flawed in some way (e.g., using some sort of checksum; unit

Re: [CentOS] how is "binary compatibility" determined?

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Keith Keller wrote: > Hi all! > > We've seen quite a few references on the list to "100% binary > compatibility with upstream".  What I am curious about is, how precisely > is this determined?  All the ways I can think of for comparing how two > systems might work s

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 74, Issue 1

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Re: [CentOS] how is "binary compatibility" determined?

On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 08:58 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Keith Keller > wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > We've seen quite a few references on the list to "100% binary > > compatibility with upstream". What I am curious about is, how precisely > > is this determined? All t

Re: [CentOS] CentOSPlus kernel (Was: Centos 6 Update?)

On 04/08/2011 11:35 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Steve Clark wrote: On 04/07/2011 05:14 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: I have just installed the kernel and will now start testing. Great. Please keep us posted. If the patches work as expected, they will be a worthy addition to t

Re: [CentOS] how is "binary compatibility" determined?

On 8.4.2011 18:03, Mister IT Guru wrote: > On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 08:58 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Keith Keller >> wrote: >>> Hi all! >>> >>> We've seen quite a few references on the list to "100% binary >>> compatibility with upstream". What I am curious about is,

Re: [CentOS] how is "binary compatibility" determined?

>> >> >> Thanks Keith, good question, that should have been on my list of >> "Questions to ask about CentOS building process", and thanks to Akemi >> for a quick answer :) > > Given that its answered in a FAQ one could argue that it was not a good > question. You know, there is a famous saying.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

On 4/8/2011 8:15 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> On 4/8/11 5:28 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> It should go to the raw disk device, not a partition and you shouldn't need to format first. >>> >>> The reason I re-formatted it was that fdisk said >>> there was no valid p

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 02:35:30PM +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote: > Hello CentOS developer team, > > thank you very much for the release of CentOS 5.6. I have upgraded my > server, notebook, netbook and workstation from 5.5 to 5.6 and > everything works really fine so far, CentOS 5.6 seems to be rock

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

On 4/8/2011 7:58 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >>> Yes, my memory isn't that great, but it is in the install guide: >>> http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en- > US/ch02s04.html#id3098219 > > I did try the dd method again, but it didn't work for me. I still don't understand what is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

Les Mikesell wrote: > USB disks _can_ have partitions (obviously, since you can stick about > any drive into a usb adapter), but small ones typically don't and you > don't need them to boot. The bootdisk.img layout appears to be a vfat > on the raw disk (no partitioning) with syslinux configure t

[CentOS] /etc/hosts not resolving hostnames

I have modified /etc/hosts file with IP address and hostname entries. However, host command is returning 'Host vhost1.example.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)'. Also, apache is returning error on start as '[error] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: Could not resolve host name vhost1.example.com-- ignoring

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

On 4/8/2011 7:55 AM, Phil Schaffner wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote on 04/07/2011 08:47 AM: >> Network Installation from CentOS Live CD will no longer be available. >> (Why not, as a matter of interest?) > > Because network installs tend to be problematic for all but those with > local repositories o

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts not resolving hostnames

Johan Martinez wrote: > I have modified /etc/hosts file with IP address and hostname entries. > However, host command is returning 'Host vhost1.example.com not found: > 3(NXDOMAIN)'. Also, apache is returning error on start as '[error] (EAI > 2)Name or service not known: Could not resolve host name

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

Phil Schaffner wrote: > Because network installs tend to be problematic for all but those with > local repositories or flawless broadband network connections. Having it > present was raising unrealistic expectations of netinstall as a viable > option, and resulting in bad first experiences with C

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts not resolving hostnames

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:27 PM, wrote: > Johan Martinez wrote: > > I have modified /etc/hosts file with IP address and hostname entries. > > However, host command is returning 'Host vhost1.example.com not found: > > 3(NXDOMAIN)'. Also, apache is returning error on start as '[error] (EAI > > 2)Nam

[CentOS] Exception error with 5.5 installation

Hi there -- I am trying to install the 64-bit version onto one of our servers. When I get to the point of loading various software packages, I normally select KDE desktop, and also make sure that CentOS extras is also selected. Once that is done, I click on Next to have the installation continue.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

Markus Falb wrote: >>> Maybe you have more luck with that. >>> dd method is not mentioned anymore. >> >> Thanks for that. >> This method did work, although there is an error in the description, >> which slightly confused me. > > You could file a bug in Upstream Vendors bugzilla ;-) I'll try th

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

On 4/8/2011 1:22 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> USB disks _can_ have partitions (obviously, since you can stick about >> any drive into a usb adapter), but small ones typically don't and you >> don't need them to boot. The bootdisk.img layout appears to be a vfat >> on the raw disk (no partitionin

Re: [CentOS] how is "binary compatibility" determined?

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Dvorkin, Asya wrote: >>> >>> Thanks Keith, good question, that should have been on my list of >>> "Questions to ask about CentOS building process", and thanks to Akemi >>> for a quick answer :) >> >> Given that its answered in a FAQ one could argue that it was not

[CentOS] iptables package issue

I just did a test install off a netinstall iso to a mirror repo which left no /etc/sysconfig/iptables file in place. So a quick check: # yum whatprovides /etc/sysconfig/iptables --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=base --enablerepo=updates --disableplugin=\* No Matches found Without that file iptables

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts not resolving hostnames

On 04/08/11 11:24 AM, Johan Martinez wrote: > I have modified /etc/hosts file with IP address and hostname entries. > However, host command is returning 'Host vhost1.example.com > not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)'. Also, apache is > returning error on start as '[error] (EAI 2)N

Re: [CentOS] Exception error with 5.5 installation

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: > Hi there -- > > I am trying to install the 64-bit version onto one of our servers. When I > get to the point > of loading various software packages, I normally select KDE desktop, and > also make > sure that CentOS extras is also selected

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

fred smith wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 02:35:30PM +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote: >> I am grateful for the CentOS Project. I like it's stability and >> long-term support. > I haven't seen a 5.6 release announcement yet. Have I missed it? I did not use the word announce in my post. I do not know wh

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts not resolving hostnames

This is working fine on another CentOS system. This particular install where host command is failing is trimmed down install using kickstart file. It is working on a system where install is default 'Server non-GUI', option given during interactive CD install. I guess this has to do with some missin

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts not resolving hostnames

Try flushing DNS cache: /etc/init.d/nscd restart On Apr 8, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Johan Martinez wrote: This is working fine on another CentOS system. This particular install where host command is failing is trimmed down install using kickstart file. It is working on a system where install is defau

Re: [CentOS] Exception error with 5.5 installation

Hi there -- Thanks for the reply. I am doing the install as we speak without issue. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Akemi Yagi Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 3:24 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Exception

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts not resolving hostnames

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Dvorkin, Asya wrote: > Try flushing DNS cache: > > /etc/init.d/nscd restart > > nscd is not running. > On Apr 8, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Johan Martinez wrote: > > This is working fine on another CentOS system. This particular install > where host command is failing is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Phil Schaffner wrote: > >> Because network installs tend to be problematic for all but those with >> local repositories or flawless broadband network connections.  Having it >> present was raising unrealistic expectations of netinstall as a v

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

On 4/8/2011 3:25 PM, Olaf Mueller wrote: > fred smith wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 02:35:30PM +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote: >>> I am grateful for the CentOS Project. I like it's stability and >>> long-term support. >> I haven't seen a 5.6 release announcement yet. Have I missed it? > I did not

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Olaf Mueller wrote: > fred smith wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 02:35:30PM +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote: >>> I am grateful for the CentOS Project. I like it's stability and >>> long-term support. >> I haven't seen a 5.6 release announcement yet. Have I missed it?

Re: [CentOS] iptables package issue

On 08/04/11 19:49, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I just did a test install off a netinstall iso to a mirror repo which left > no /etc/sysconfig/iptables file in place. > > So a quick check: > # yum whatprovides /etc/sysconfig/iptables --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=base > --enablerepo=updates --disable

Re: [CentOS] iptables package issue

On 08/04/11 20:56, Ned Slider wrote: > On 08/04/11 19:49, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> I just did a test install off a netinstall iso to a mirror repo which left >> no /etc/sysconfig/iptables file in place. >> >> So a quick check: >> # yum whatprovides /etc/sysconfig/iptables --disablerepo=\* >> --e

Re: [CentOS] iptables package issue

On 4/8/2011 4:00 PM, Ned Slider wrote: > On 08/04/11 20:56, Ned Slider wrote: >> On 08/04/11 19:49, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>> I just did a test install off a netinstall iso to a mirror repo which left >>> no /etc/sysconfig/iptables file in place. >>> >>> So a quick check: >>> # yum whatprovides /

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

On Friday, April 08, 2011 02:22:47 PM Timothy Murphy wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > > USB disks _can_ have partitions (obviously, since you can stick about > > any drive into a usb adapter), > The instructions in US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installation_G

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

William Hooper wrote: > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Phil Schaffner wrote: > The issues you saw with grub being installed on the USB stick instead of the HDD are a bigger concern in my book. I wonder if you you have better luck installing GRUB on the HDD MBR, booting

Re: [CentOS] iptables package issue

>And since that file contains the rules list for iptables, it doesn't >make sense for iptables to run without it. > >Basically, if you want to run iptables, you need to define some rules >first. Either create the file by hand and then start iptables, or >create the rules in iptables and use "servi

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

Les Mikesell wrote on 04/08/2011 02:27 PM: > None of that applies to NFS installs against locally downloaded isos - > which is the fastest/easiest approach to a full set of install choices > unless it is your first machine and you don't have anything to act as > the server. Agreed. In my mind tha

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

On 4/8/2011 3:19 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: > >> None of that applies to NFS installs against locally downloaded isos - >> which is the fastest/easiest approach to a full set of install choices >> unless it is your first machine and you don't have anything to act as >> the server. > > Agreed. In my

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

William Hooper wrote on 04/08/2011 03:50 PM: > Forgive me if I've missed it mentioned, but it looks like the option > is only being removed from the LiveCD. Using the netinstall.iso is > still available and would be a more efficient way of doing network > installs anyway (9.5M vs 685M). Precisely

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts not resolving hostnames

On Friday 08 April 2011 14:32, the following was written: > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:27 PM, wrote: > > Johan Martinez wrote: > > > I have modified /etc/hosts file with IP address and hostname entries. > > > However, host command is returning 'Host vhost1.example.com not found: > > > 3(NXDOMA

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

Les Mikesell wrote on 04/08/2011 04:29 PM: > Why force people to burn two disks when they > would only need one? You are welcome to debate that with the LiveCD maintainer, or to roll your own version including the option, but as a guy who has spent a lot of time answering the newbies on the foru

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

m.r...@5-cent.us wrote on 04/08/2011 04:10 PM: .. > What you have to do is tell it no bootloader, then before you reboot at > the end of the install, use or whatever to get to another screen, > then... lessee, I forget if it's mounted the install as /mnt/sysimage or > not, but mount your /boot on

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

On 4/8/2011 3:35 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote on 04/08/2011 04:29 PM: >> Why force people to burn two disks when they >> would only need one? > > You are welcome to debate that with the LiveCD maintainer, or to roll > your own version including the option, but as a guy who has spe

Re: [CentOS] Exception error with 5.5 installation

Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote on 04/08/2011 02:32 PM: > I am trying to install the 64-bit version onto one of our servers. When > I get to the point > of loading various software packages, I normally select KDE desktop, and > also make > sure that CentOS extras is also selected. Once that is done, I clic

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts not resolving hostnames

Johan Martinez wrote on Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:31:32 -0500: > This is working fine on another CentOS system. It doesn't matter if "it works fine". The host command indeed does dns lookups as John Pierce already pointed out and apache does, too. With your experience level I suggest believing him. It

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

Phil Schaffner wrote: > m.r...@5-cent.us wrote on 04/08/2011 04:10 PM: > .. >> What you have to do is tell it no bootloader, then before you reboot at >> the end of the install, use or whatever to get to another screen, >> then... lessee, I forget if it's mounted the install as /mnt/sysimage or >>

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

m.r...@5-cent.us wrote on 04/08/2011 04:56 PM: > In a standard install? I'll look, but don't remember that option. It is present, but easy to overlook. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] large memory usage by perl .so modules?

Under Centos 5.5 on an x86_64 box I am seeing large memory usage associated with perl .so modules. Example: this script: #!/usr/bin/perl use Time::HiRes; open(SMAPS, "/proc/$$/smaps"); while () { if (m/^\d/) { chomp($lib = (split(' ', $_))[5]); } elsif (m/^Size:\s*(\d+.*)/) { my $siz

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

Olaf Mueller wrote on 04/08/2011 08:35 AM: ... > The only little problem happens on the upgrade of my server, since my > web server doesn't start after reboot. But this was easy to fix since > this error was known from the RHEL 5.6 upgrade. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=669963 You

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

On Friday, April 08, 2011 04:42:59 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > Did anyone tell them how easy an nfs install is? That makes the assumption that there is an nfs server available. We certainly don't do nfs here. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

On 4/8/2011 4:22 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: > Olaf Mueller wrote on 04/08/2011 08:35 AM: > ... >> The only little problem happens on the upgrade of my server, since my >> web server doesn't start after reboot. But this was easy to fix since >> this error was known from the RHEL 5.6 upgrade. >> https

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

Les Mikesell wrote on 04/08/2011 05:33 PM: > Is there some way for yum to know about that? Only if it errors out on a bad package. There have been (to my knowledge) two different types of errors. One was a truncated package on the mirrors that was damaged in transit from the build system. The

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

On 4/8/2011 4:26 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, April 08, 2011 04:42:59 PM Les Mikesell wrote: >> Did anyone tell them how easy an nfs install is? > > That makes the assumption that there is an nfs server available. We > certainly don't do nfs here. If this isn't your first install, you are

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

On Friday, April 08, 2011 05:43:03 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > On 4/8/2011 4:26 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > That makes the assumption that there is an nfs server available. We > > certainly don't do nfs here. > > If this isn't your first install, you are a couple of commands away from > having one.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

On 4/8/2011 4:48 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > >>> That makes the assumption that there is an nfs server available. We >>> certainly don't do nfs here. >> >> If this isn't your first install, you are a couple of commands away from >> having one. Faster/easier than burning yet another iso or 7. > > Tha

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 09:25:00PM +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote: > fred smith wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 02:35:30PM +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote: > >> I am grateful for the CentOS Project. I like it's stability and > >> long-term support. > > I haven't seen a 5.6 release announcement yet. Have

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

fred smith wrote: > Clearly you found my comment to be offensive. It certainly was > not meant that way. It was simply a friendly warning that depending > on a pre-announcement set of files may not give you the final product. Ok, I get the point now. Sorry Fred, my reaction was not appropriate. Y

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

William Hooper wrote: > An this was posted to the CentOS twitter account yesterday 4/7 > (shortly after having to re-issue the x86_64 ISOs): > > http://twitter.com/CentOS/status/55950095505567745 > > "Just want to also point out that CentOS-5.6 is *not* released. And > packages, ISOS are liable

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-5.6 i386 and x86_64

Amazing!! Great work!! Thank you Aly Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] CentOS 5.6 updated packages - what about subversion?

I see the following in the CentOS 5.6 Release Notes: 6.3. Packages that have been upgraded in 5.6 since the 5.5 release * python-2.4.3-27.el5_5.3 Wouldn't subversion also be listed? CentOS 5.5 has subversion-1.4.2-4.el5_3.1 CentOS 5.6 has subversion-1.6.11-7.el5 Is this list genera

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

Lamar Owen wrote: >> > USB disks _can_ have partitions (obviously, since you can stick about >> > any drive into a usb adapter), > >> The instructions in > US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installation_Guide/ >> certainly advise making a partition /dev/sdb1 >>

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

Les Mikesell wrote: That makes the assumption that there is an nfs server available. We certainly don't do nfs here. >>> >>> If this isn't your first install, you are a couple of commands away from >>> having one. Faster/easier than burning yet another iso or 7. >> >> That makes the as

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

Les Mikesell wrote: >> I did try the dd method again, but it didn't work for me. > > I still don't understand what is going wrong for you. I just went > through these motions: > download the bootdisk.img file from: > http://mirror.highspeedweb.net/CentOS/5.5/os/i386/images/ > then > dd if=bo

[CentOS] PCI-X/PCIe RAID controller.

Afternoon, I've got an old Dell PERC 4DC (PCI 64bit/33MHz) sitting in my home rig and with a new board on the way that has PCI-X (133) and PCIe (x4) slots, I was wondering what people would recommend for a cheap hardware parallel SCSI RAID controller (no fake raid please) that is relatively cheap

[CentOS] 5.6 is out, great my first upgrade didn't work...

5.6 is out. That is good news. I did a yum update on one of my non-critical server, and the server stoped responding to ping after the reboot, and never answered back. It's now been 10 minutes, so I'll have to take a ride to the colo... Nice work dev team, keep up the good work. Let's hope that

Re: [CentOS] 5.6 is out, great my first upgrade didn't work...

On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Nicolas Ross wrote: > 5.6 is out. That is good news. > > I did a yum update on one of my non-critical server, and the server > stoped responding to ping after the reboot, and never answered back. > It's now been 10 minutes, so I'll have to take a ride to the colo... > > Nice wo

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

Phil Schaffner wrote: > You are welcome to debate that with the LiveCD maintainer, or to roll > your own version including the option, but as a guy who has spent a lot > of time answering the newbies on the forum who got tripped up by it, I > fully support the decision. If you feel that, why not

Re: [CentOS] PCI-X/PCIe RAID controller.

On 04/08/11 5:12 PM, Drew wrote: > Afternoon, > > I've got an old Dell PERC 4DC (PCI 64bit/33MHz) sitting in my home rig > and with a new board on the way that has PCI-X (133) and PCIe (x4) > slots, I was wondering what people would recommend for a cheap > hardware parallel SCSI RAID controller (no

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