Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-07 Thread Alain Portal
Le jeudi 07 janvier 2010 19:37:46, James B. Byrne a écrit : PREFER: 64 bit core duo 2 2-4+ Gb RAM 120+ Gb HDD writable multi-mode DVD/CD drive CentOS-5+ Your system suggestions, both for hardware and OS, are most welcome. Not a Panasonic CF-52 :-(

Re: [CentOS] Can't update CentOS 5.2

2009-01-10 Thread Alain PORTAL
Hi, Le samedi 10 janvier 2009, Mário Gamito a écrit : I have Internet connection, but I cant ping mirrorlist.centos.org and http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5arch=i386repo=os just stalls. Ping works for me. Perhaps you have to retry. Regards. Alain -- Les pages de manuel Linux en

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up an RPM repository.

2009-01-07 Thread Alain PORTAL
Le mercredi 7 janvier 2009 à 16:44, William L. Maltby a écrit : rpm --erase full-versioned-package-name and run it. This rpm command erase an installed package, not a file in a directory. Regards Alain -- La version française des pages de manuel Linux http://manpagesfr.free.fr

Re: [CentOS] Anaconda crash during Centos 5.2 installation.

2009-01-06 Thread Alain PORTAL
Le mercredi 31 décembre 2008 à 14:22, Alain PORTAL a écrit : Le mercredi 31 décembre 2008 à 13:47, William L. Maltby a écrit : Have you run a memtest86(?). memtest86 found several errors during test #5. No more time today to test which memory is defective, I'll try next year ;-) which means

Re: [CentOS] Anaconda crash during Centos 5.2 installatio n [SOLVED].

2009-01-06 Thread Alain PORTAL
Le mardi 06 janvier 2009, William L. Maltby a écrit : I'm glad it worked out. I took the liberty of adding [SOLVED] to the subject line to help others that may have a similar problem in the future. Oups! Sorry, I should have to do it. But now, why (how) is it solved? Because a new good RAM, or

Re: [CentOS] Anaconda crash during Centos 5.2 installation.

2008-12-31 Thread Alain PORTAL
Le mardi 30 décembre 2008 à 19:37, MHR a écrit : You need to supply more information about this old machine - that could be the problem Motherboard is EliteGroup P4VXASD+ Processor is Intel Celeron 4A 2GHz Chipset is VIA VT8753/A/E Apollo P4V266/A/E Videoadapter is nVIDIA RIVA TNT2 M64

Re: [CentOS] Anaconda crash during Centos 5.2 installation.

2008-12-31 Thread Alain PORTAL
Le mardi 30 décembre 2008 à 19:53, Lanny Marcus a écrit : As Mark (mhr) mentioned, it might not run on that box. I suggest you download the Live CD for CentOS 5.2 and test it with that. If it doesn't run on the Live CD, it probably is not going to run on that box. GL Trying in graphical

Re: [CentOS] Anaconda crash during Centos 5.2 installation.

2008-12-31 Thread Alain PORTAL
Le mercredi 31 décembre 2008 à 13:47, William L. Maltby a écrit : Have you run a memtest86(?). memtest86 found several errors during test #5. No more time today to test which memory is defective, I'll try next year ;-) which means next week. Thanks! Alain -- La version française des pages de

[CentOS] Anaconda crash during Centos 5.2 installation.

2008-12-30 Thread Alain PORTAL
Hi, I'm trying to install Centos 5.2 on an old machine in graphical mode (to use LVM) but anaconda crash. I made several tries with various installation resquest (the last is Server, Customize after installation) unfortunately, it's reproductible: Traceback (most recent call first): File

Re: [CentOS] Anaconda crash during Centos 5.2 installation.

2008-12-30 Thread Alain PORTAL
Le mardi 30 décembre 2008, MHR a écrit : You need to supply more information about this old machine - that could be the problem What do you need as information? I'm not in from of this machine tonight, the only thing I remember is it has 512MB RAM and 40GB HDD. Regards, Alain -- Les

Re: [CentOS] Anaconda crash during Centos 5.2 installation.

2008-12-30 Thread Alain PORTAL
Le mardi 30 décembre 2008, Lanny Marcus a écrit : As Mark (mhr) mentioned, it might not run on that box. I suggest you download the Live CD for CentOS 5.2 and test it with that. If it doesn't run on the Live CD, it probably is not going to run on that I didn't think about that. Thanks. I'll

Re: [CentOS] Installing RHEL5.3

2008-12-26 Thread Alain PORTAL
Le vendredi 26 décembre 2008, Matej Cepl a écrit : On 2008-12-24, 14:00 GMT, Alain PORTAL wrote: More info in the updated bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D477708#c5 Thanks Alain, this looks really pretty bad. Bug updated and maintainer asked to take a look

Re: [CentOS] Installing RHEL5.3

2008-12-24 Thread Alain PORTAL
Le mercredi 24 décembre 2008, Matej Cepl a écrit : On 2008-12-23, 18:05 GMT, Vandaman wrote: If you are having problems with 5.2 then address these problems immediately without waiting for 5.3. How do you address them? File bugs or ask questions relating to your existing problem but 5.3

Re: [CentOS] Installing RHEL5.3

2008-12-23 Thread Alain PORTAL
Le mardi 23 décembre 2008, Vandaman a écrit : 1. wait for a public beta Are you sure beta can be public ? 2. get a RHN account and download immediately. I just remember that I had an old RHN account, since RH7.0 as I remember. I reactivated it and I'm waiting for more information. There is

Re: [CentOS] Rebuild xorg (continued from Centos-devel)

2008-12-22 Thread Alain PORTAL
Le dimanche 21 décembre 2008, William L. Maltby a écrit : Unfortunately, resolution is too low (320x200), so, I can't see the Cancel and Valid or OK button of the system-config-display dialog. Try again with the resolution parameters like Alan suggested but with lower resolution and vga,

[CentOS] Installing RHEL5.3

2008-12-22 Thread Alain PORTAL
Hi, As I can start X on Centos 5.2, can somebody explain me how to install RHEL 5.3 pre-release or give me a pointer that explain how to do? ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/RHEL5.3/ I should want to know if I'll can install Centos 5.3 ;-) Regards, Alain -- Les pages de manuel Linux