Re: [CentOS] Booting CentOS 6 in VirtualBox on Ubuntu

2011-07-27 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Cliff Pratt wrote: > I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on > Ubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this configuration working? > > When I try to boot the "Live" ISO it starts to do the countdown but > when it reaches zero it gets stuck - nothing else ha

Re: [CentOS] Package: virt-goodies - partly solved

2011-07-27 Thread Timothy Kesten
Am Dienstag, 26. Juli 2011, 19:58:08 schrieb Victor Zele: > For CentOS KVM migrations use the virt-v2v package part of base. > > See this link, > > http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualiz > ation/chap-Virtualization-v2v-migration.html Thx for that advice It l

[CentOS] HOWTO install CentOS 6 on low memory computer or virtual machine (even 192MB RAM)

2011-07-27 Thread Tomasz Ostrowski
I've managed to install CentOS 6 on a 192MB virtual machine using LiveCD install-to-disk graphical method. This is not normally possible because of: - hard-coded minimum supported memory in Anaconda installer - it will show a message "You do not have enough RAM to install CentOS Linux on this mach

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread Marc Deop
On Tuesday 26 July 2011 20:55:58 John R Pierce wrote: > On 07/26/11 4:27 PM, Kevin K wrote: > > Does anyone know what I would have to modify in 6 if I wanted to run on an > > older Pentium M CPU without PAE? Is it just the kernel that needs to be rebuilt (maybe while installed in a system with a

[CentOS] HOWTO install CentOS 6 on low memory computer or virtual machine (even 192MB RAM)

2011-07-27 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Tomasz Ostrowski wrote: > I've managed to install CentOS 6 on a 192MB virtual machine using LiveCD > install-to-disk graphical method. I think you are over-thnking this. Anaconda is overkill if all you want to do is blow images onto arbitrary hardware So long as you are

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread Kevin K
On Jul 26, 2011, at 10:55 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 07/26/11 4:27 PM, Kevin K wrote: >> Does anyone know what I would have to modify in 6 if I wanted to run on an >> older Pentium M CPU without PAE? Is it just the kernel that needs to be >> rebuilt (maybe while installed in a system with a

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread Kevin K
On Jul 27, 2011, at 4:53 AM, Marc Deop wrote: > On Tuesday 26 July 2011 20:55:58 John R Pierce wrote: >> On 07/26/11 4:27 PM, Kevin K wrote: >>> Does anyone know what I would have to modify in 6 if I wanted to run on an >>> older Pentium M CPU without PAE? Is it just the > kernel that needs to

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread Marc Deop
Unfortunately I do not have such system available :( The pentium M I'm using is PATA based an my other systems are SATA. I might be able to get an external hard drive or something like that... I'll look into it, thanks for the info anyway :) Regards Marc Deop On Wednesday 27 July 2011 06:50:

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:53:49 +0200 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Tuesday 26 July 2011 20:55:58 John R Pierce wrote: > > On 07/26/11 4:27 PM, Kevin K wrote: > > > Does anyone know what I would have to modify in 6 if I wanted to run on > > > an older Pentium M CPU without PAE? Is it just th

Re: [CentOS] libpri rpm version 1.4.12 for CentOS 5.6

2011-07-27 Thread Patrick Lists
On 07/27/2011 03:44 AM, Tadashi Jokagi wrote: > Hi Kaushal, > > libpri is not in CentOS. I think that it is in EPEL. > Please see following field of "Repo.". I think he installed from the Asterisk/Digium repo. Regards, Patrick ___ CentOS mailing list Ce

Re: [CentOS] Sudo #includedir function ignored CentOS 6

2011-07-27 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 15:59 -0500, Trey Dockendorf wrote: > Well I verified that putting the following line in /etc/sudoers works > > > zabbix ALL=NOPASSWD: /var/lib/zabbix/bin/start_puppet > > > However if I put it in /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet it does not. > Exact same spacing and everythi

Re: [CentOS] HOWTO install CentOS 6 on low memory computer or virtual machine (even 192MB RAM)

2011-07-27 Thread Tomasz Ostrowski
On 07/27/2011 01:06 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Tomasz Ostrowski wrote: > >> I've managed to install CentOS 6 on a 192MB virtual machine using LiveCD >> install-to-disk graphical method. > > So long as you are going through all this, why not just > install to taste into a chro

Re: [CentOS] Booting CentOS 6 in VirtualBox on Ubuntu

2011-07-27 Thread Railic Njegos
I have several machine CentOS 6 in Oracle Virtual Box and on VMWARE ESXi. All machine working great. I use Centos 6 i386 DVD and netinstall from local repository. Problem may be if you try to run x64 CentOS virtual machine on i386 OS Ubuntu. Cheers, Njegos On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:16 AM, John

Re: [CentOS] Package: virt-goodies - partly solved

2011-07-27 Thread Timothy Kesten
Am Mittwoch, 27. Juli 2011, 01:40:01 schrieb Trey Dockendorf: > If your using CentOS 5.x you may have a problem with perl...here's some > notes I have on the subject Thx for that - but I'm using CentOS6_x86_64. Timothy ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@ce

[CentOS] running X as root in centos 6

2011-07-27 Thread Jerry Geis
When I run X as root in centos 6 I get a nice little message that "your currently trying to run as root super user" and are you sure you want to with a checkbox. I do this for a reason as a post install step, then the system reboots and it never happens again... I am trying to find how to set t

Re: [CentOS] Booting CentOS 6 in VirtualBox on Ubuntu

2011-07-27 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 05:26:15 Cliff Pratt wrote: > I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on > Ubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this configuration working? I did it under Fedora rather than Ubuntu, but in general yes, it works. > When I try to boot the "Live" ISO it

[CentOS] Kickstart and CentOS 6...

2011-07-27 Thread John Doe
Hey, I am trying to upgrade my kickstart usb key to 6.0 and I ran into a few issues. I boot with:   append initrd=initrd.img ks=hd:sdb2:/ks.cfg repo=hd:sdb2:/centos and in the ks.cfg I have:   harddrive --partition=sdb2 --dir=/centos and on sdb2 I have:   sdb2:/centos/CentOS-6.0-x86_64-bin-DVD

Re: [CentOS] running X as root in centos 6

2011-07-27 Thread 夜神 岩男
On 07/27/2011 11:39 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > I do this for a reason as a post install step, then the system reboots > and it never happens again... And so you will never be asked again, it seems. > I am trying to find how to set this checkbox which says "never ask me > again" and move on... But

Re: [CentOS] running X as root in centos 6

2011-07-27 Thread Jerry Geis
> > Anyway, I'm just being silly above. The gconf key for this is: > > /apps/gnome-session/options/show_root_warning > Thats awesome... I new the rest about setting values - I just didnt know the name. Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cen

Re: [CentOS] libpri rpm version 1.4.12 for CentOS 5.6

2011-07-27 Thread Patrick Lists
On 07/27/2011 03:03 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi, > > Is libpri rpm version 1.4.12 for CentOS 5.6 made available ? > > [root@ ~]# rpm -qa | grep libpri > libpri-1.4.11.5-1_centos5 > [root@ ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release > CentOS release 5.6 (Final) > [root@ ~]# > [root@ ~]# yum list updates | grep

Re: [CentOS] running X as root in centos 6

2011-07-27 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 15:39:46 Jerry Geis wrote: > When I run X as root in centos 6 I guess you've probably already been told that this is a Very Bad Idea, right? > I get a nice little message that "your currently trying to run as root > super user" and > are you sure you want to with a check

Re: [CentOS] running X as root in centos 6

2011-07-27 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > What never happens again? The message doesn't appear on subsequent root X > logins (this is a bug that should be reported), or you subsequently never try > to login as root again (this is a good idea to be practiced)? Nah, you get the option of disabl

Re: [CentOS] running X as root in centos 6

2011-07-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/27/2011 10:53 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > I believe that the system is designed to warn you with that message, *every* > *time* you try to login as root into X. Things like that always remind me of seeing 'rough road' warnings on the highway. Wouldn't it be better to fix the underlying p

[CentOS] gconftool-2 scripted customizations (was Re: running X as root in centos 6)

2011-07-27 Thread Patrick Lists
On 07/27/2011 05:34 PM, 夜神 岩男 wrote: > PS: If anyone knows anything better than the above sort of commands, > please pipe up. I've been doing a *lot* of gconftool-2 scripted > customizations lately and some of the options are pretty hard to > research. Things like setting default colors for gnome-t

Re: [CentOS] running X as root in centos 6

2011-07-27 Thread 夜神 岩男
On 07/28/2011 12:47 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: >> >> Anyway, I'm just being silly above. The gconf key for this is: >> >> /apps/gnome-session/options/show_root_warning >> > Thats awesome... I new the rest about setting values - I just didnt know > the name. > Thanks, I've become a wizard at finding tho

Re: [CentOS] running X as root in centos 6

2011-07-27 Thread Marc Deop
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 11:15:32 Les Mikesell wrote: > Things like that always remind me of seeing 'rough road' warnings on the > highway. Wouldn't it be better to fix the underlying problem if X isn't > suitable for administrative use or make better text mode tools than to > spend the time p

Re: [CentOS] running X as root in centos 6

2011-07-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/27/2011 11:45 AM, Marc Deop wrote: > On Wednesday 27 July 2011 11:15:32 Les Mikesell wrote: >> Things like that always remind me of seeing 'rough road' warnings on the >> highway. Wouldn't it be better to fix the underlying problem if X isn't >> suitable for administrative use or make better

Re: [CentOS] running X as root in centos 6

2011-07-27 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Les Mikesell > Subject: Re: [CentOS] running X as root in centos 6 > > On 7/27/2011 10:53 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> >> I believe that the system is designed to warn you with that message, *every* >> *time* you try to

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/27/11 4:55 AM, Marc Deop wrote: > Unfortunately I do not have such system available :( > > The pentium M I'm using is PATA based an my other systems are SATA. I might > be able to get an external hard drive or something > like that... > you can build the kernel RPM on any other similar envi

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread Marc Deop
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 10:15:25 John R Pierce wrote: > WHY ARE YOU/WE WASTING Y/OUR TIME ON A 6 YR OLD LAPTOP??? Dude, take it easy. Calm down. I did not spend more than one 1minute on it. I downloaded the Red Hat Beta 6 and tried to install it on the laptop. At the moment I saw there was

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 10:15 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > you can build the kernel RPM on any other similar environment, and > WHY ARE YOU/WE WASTING Y/OUR TIME ON A 6 YR OLD LAPTOP??? Get over > it. Either run what works on it, or get suitable hardware to run what > you need. Merel

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/27/2011 12:23 PM, Marc Deop wrote: > On Wednesday 27 July 2011 10:15:25 John R Pierce wrote: >> WHY ARE YOU/WE WASTING Y/OUR TIME ON A 6 YR OLD LAPTOP??? > > Dude, take it easy. Calm down. > > I did not spend more than one 1minute on it. I downloaded the Red Hat Beta 6 > and tried to install

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/27/11 10:33 AM, Always Learning wrote: > The 26" 66cm television is my bedroom is 14 > years old. and probably draws triple the power and heat as a modern LCD screen, as well as taking 2 feet or more of depth. re; the 6 yr old laptop... I in fact have a old pentium-M PATA laptop myself.

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread Scot P. Floess
Hey, I have 2 PIII 550 / 650 Mhz laptops I use running CentOS 5.6 (FVWM for example) - they work just fine (OK maybe firefox can be punchy) - but for Xterms or even as VNC clients - they rock. CentOS 5.6 runs just fine on them too... On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, John R Pierce wrote: > On 07/27/11 10

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread Drew
I wonder then what people would think about my running SL6 (centos 6 wasn't out yet) on an old P3-866 Toughbook w/ 768MB RAM? :) Only machine in my inventory that I can drag *everywhere* and still doesn't complain. -- Drew ___ CentOS mailing list Cent

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 07/27/11 10:33 AM, Always Learning wrote: >> The 26" 66cm television is my bedroom is 14 >> years old. > > and probably draws triple the power and heat as a modern LCD screen, as > well as taking 2 feet or more of depth. > And less than a plasma screen, with the addition t

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/27/11 11:29 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > And less than a plasma screen, with the addition that if you turn it off, > it does*not* draw power. Many CRT's made in the last 20 years kept the filaments preheated so they could fire up faster. and of course, anything with a remote control tha

Re: [CentOS] Booting CentOS 6 in VirtualBox on Ubuntu

2011-07-27 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:16 AM, John Hodrien wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Cliff Pratt wrote: >> >> I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on >> Ubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this configuration working? >> >> When I try to boot the "Live" ISO it starts to do the countd

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: *snip* > Yeah, this is *linux*: it runs on anything Of course. The smallest usable Linux distros I know of is: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ # Run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram # Run fully in RAM with as little as 128MB (you wi

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 07/27/11 11:29 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> And less than a plasma screen, with the addition that if you turn it >> off, >> it does*not* draw power. > > Many CRT's made in the last 20 years kept the filaments preheated so > they could fire up faster. and of course, any

Re: [CentOS] gconftool-2 scripted customizations (was Re: running X as root in centos 6)

2011-07-27 Thread 夜神 岩男
On 07/28/2011 01:18 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: > On 07/27/2011 05:34 PM, 夜神 岩男 wrote: >> PS: If anyone knows anything better than the above sort of commands, >> please pipe up. I've been doing a *lot* of gconftool-2 scripted >> customizations lately and some of the options are pretty hard to >> resea

Re: [CentOS] running X as root in centos 6

2011-07-27 Thread Devin Reade
--On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 11:57:51 AM -0500 Les Mikesell wrote: > On 7/27/2011 11:45 AM, Marc Deop wrote: >> If you need to get into X as root means that *you* are doing something >> *wrong*. It has nothing to do with an "underlying problem". > > So why do GUI administrative tools exist? Or

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 02:50:31 PM Keith Roberts wrote: > DSL was originally developed as an experiment to see how > many usable desktop applications can fit inside a 50MB live > CD. Somewhat off-topic for the CentOS list however, another good one is TinyCore (and without the possibly

Re: [CentOS] gconftool-2 scripted customizations (was Re: running X as root in centos 6)

2011-07-27 Thread Patrick Lists
On 07/27/2011 08:58 PM, 夜神 岩男 wrote: >> Some of the gnome-terminal color stuff I have been using for F14: > > Very helpful -- splitting it up makes more sense I was trying recently > to get things done through the /blah/blahblah/Default/palette key for > gnome-terminal and its behaving oddly. Do I

Re: [CentOS] running X as root in centos 6

2011-07-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/27/2011 1:59 PM, Devin Reade wrote: > >>> If you need to get into X as root means that *you* are doing something >>> *wrong*. It has nothing to do with an "underlying problem". >> >> So why do GUI administrative tools exist? Or did you mean window >> manager or desktop instead of X? > > The p

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread m . roth
Keith Roberts wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > *snip* > >> Yeah, this is *linux*: it runs on anything > > Of course. The smallest usable Linux distros I know of is: > > http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ > > # Run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram > # Run fully

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:15 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > you can build the kernel RPM on any other similar environment, and > WHY ARE YOU/WE WASTING Y/OUR TIME ON A 6  YR OLD LAPTOP???   Get over > it.  Either run what works on it, or get suitable hardware to run what > you need. He's not t

[CentOS] missing /dev/dsp

2011-07-27 Thread David Bunt
Hey guys, If I needed to get /dev/dsp back on centos 6, how would I go about doing that. Note, I've already uninstalled pulseaudio. I've also edited /etc/modprobe.d/dist-oss.conf and uncommented: /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm && /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq-device

Re: [CentOS] missing /dev/dsp

2011-07-27 Thread David Bunt
Sorry guys, just realized this went out 3 times. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread Scot P. Floess
Oh wow 768 MB - nice. My laptops have 256 MB and 384 MB - how's that for old :) On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Drew wrote: > I wonder then what people would think about my running SL6 (centos 6 > wasn't out yet) on an old P3-866 Toughbook w/ 768MB RAM? :) > > Only machine in my inventory that I can drag

Re: [CentOS] running X as root in centos 6

2011-07-27 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Devin Reade wrote: *snip* > In the particular case of GUI administrative tools (and depending on > how they're written), they don't necessarily have to run as root > even though they ask for root credentials. (For example, they could > "su - /some/command" to make changes).

[CentOS] C6 livecd raid detection?

2011-07-27 Thread Les Mikesell
Are there differences in the way CentOS 6.0 handles md raid1 arrays compared to earlier versions? After getting my drive with 4k sectors partitioned with a 64-sector starting offset and working under 5.6 with about a 20Mb/sec sync rate, I booted with the 6.0 livecd to see if there would be any

Re: [CentOS] running X as root in centos 6

2011-07-27 Thread Devin Reade
--On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 02:20:48 PM -0500 Les Mikesell wrote: > OK, now look at that from the other direction. I'm as concerned about > the security of my own account as anything else (and in fact there may > be root ssh keys accessible to my account). If something is not suitable > to

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:53 AM, Marc Deop wrote: > And how exactly would you do that if the installation just can't proceed if > it detects you do not have a PAE processor? Here's a "work-around" method posted at Scientific Linux to install version 6 on a non-PAE computer. I'm pretty sure it c

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread Drew
I was pleased as most of that era toughbook had 256 or 512 if you were lucky. I upgraded the drive to 80GB and I dual-boot XP for a couple apps. Fun machine. My first linux box, a Redhat 4 machine, ran on a Pentium-133 and had 32megs when I got it. RH6 wouldn't install and I had to custom compile

Re: [CentOS] C6 livecd raid detection?

2011-07-27 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>What was worse was that booting back to 5.6 left most of the raid pairs >broken, some still having numbers in the md120 range, and one of the >drives with an unrecognizable partition table. I think I can repair >everything, but did I miss something about this in release notes somewhere? I jus

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread Kevin K
On Jul 27, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 10:15 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > >> you can build the kernel RPM on any other similar environment, and >> WHY ARE YOU/WE WASTING Y/OUR TIME ON A 6 YR OLD LAPTOP??? Get over >> it. Either run what works

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:39:55 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > On Jul 27, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 10:15 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > > > >> you can build the kernel RPM on any other similar environment, and > >> WHY ARE YOU/WE W

[CentOS] SOLVED Re: Booting CentOS 6 in VirtualBox on Ubuntu

2011-07-27 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:16 PM, John Hodrien wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Cliff Pratt wrote: > >> I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on >> Ubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this configuration working? >> >> When I try to boot the "Live" ISO it starts to do the countdo

Re: [CentOS] Booting CentOS 6 in VirtualBox on Ubuntu

2011-07-27 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Railic Njegos wrote: > I have several machine CentOS 6 in Oracle Virtual Box and on > VMWARE ESXi. All machine working great. > > I use Centos 6 i386 DVD and netinstall from local repository. > > Problem may be if you try to run x64 CentOS virtual machine on > i386

Re: [CentOS] Booting CentOS 6 in VirtualBox on Ubuntu

2011-07-27 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Wednesday 27 July 2011 05:26:15 Cliff Pratt wrote: >> I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on >> Ubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this configuration working? > > I did it under Fedora rather than Ubuntu, but in