Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3 live-cd no internet connection

2012-12-01 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 30/11/2012 22:25, Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Johan Scheepers Sent: den 30 november 2012 19:09 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3 live-cd no internet connection I am

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3 live-cd no internet connection

2012-11-30 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 30/11/2012 10:52, Sorin Srbu (IMAP) wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Johan Scheepers Sent: den 30 november 2012 07:59 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3 live-cd no internet connection

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3 live-cd no internet connection

2012-11-30 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 30/11/2012 20:38, Earl A Ramirez wrote: On 1 December 2012 02:09, Johan Scheepers johanne...@vodamail.co.za wrote: On 30/11/2012 10:52, Sorin Srbu (IMAP) wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Johan Scheepers Sent

[CentOS] centos 6.3 live-cd no internet connection

2012-11-29 Thread Johan Scheepers
Good day, Installed Centos 6.3 live-cd. Looking good but * no internet connection * (wired dsl system). Other linux flavours do not seem to have this problem on my laptop and internet connection. Did a lot of google but not really advice that I could try. I would like to try Centos out but

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3 live-cd no internet connection

2012-11-29 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 30/11/2012 08:37, Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Johan Scheepers Sent: den 28 november 2012 08:10 To: centos Subject: [CentOS] centos 6.3 live-cd no internet connection Installed Centos 6.3

Re: [CentOS] 5.6 update experience - EXCELLENT!

2011-04-09 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 09/04/2011 14:23, Ed Westphal wrote: Just updated 98 packages on this ole hardware raid 10 box - 5.6 final is running just fine. No problems. THANKS. Ed Westphal ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] centos 5.6 live cd - not installable to hard drive?

2011-04-07 Thread Johan Scheepers
Good day, Downloaded centos 5.6 live cd from... http://mirror.nexcess.net/CentOS/5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-LiveCD.iso it is dated 06-04-2011. No option to install on hard disk. Have I missed it somehow? Please some advice. Maybe the address if an installable cd iso please. Thanks

[CentOS] Prozilla-gui for centos 5.5 x86_64

2010-12-21 Thread Johan Scheepers
Good day, Seen when googled that *prozilla* seem to be very good down loader. Googled but could not find a version for my centos. Found one GUI for Fedora 14 x86_64. Would that install on my system without breaking it. or Maybe one for my system that I missed? Some advice would be

Re: [CentOS] server version on laptop

2010-12-18 Thread Johan Scheepers
John R Pierce wrote: On 12/17/10 11:58 PM, Johan Scheepers wrote: Good day, What can I expect if I should install a server version of a distro on my laptop, please. that would depend on what the distro is, and what qualifies this 'server version' as such. for installing centos, which

Re: [CentOS] server version on laptop

2010-12-18 Thread Johan Scheepers
ken wrote: On 12/18/2010 04:31 AM Kai Schaetzl wrote: Johan Scheepers wrote on Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:58:50 +0200: You can expect a server version of a distro on your laptop. Kai Kai, You took the words right out of my mouth. I've been running several server apps (mail, web, ldap

[CentOS] centos 5.5 x86_64 mixing with i386 rpms

2010-12-17 Thread Johan Scheepers
Good day, What will happen if on x86_64 some i386 rpms get installed, please. Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 x86_64 mixing with i386 rpms

2010-12-17 Thread Johan Scheepers
Robert Heller wrote: At Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:23:36 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Good day, What will happen if on x86_64 some i386 rpms get installed, please. Depends. It is in fact *normal* for i[3456]86 *libraries* to be installed on a CentOS/RHEL x86_64 system

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 x86_64 mixing with i386 rpms

2010-12-17 Thread Johan Scheepers
Nicolas Ross wrote: Good day, What will happen if on x86_64 some i386 rpms get installed, please. Thanks Johan You'll need some libraries, like libstdc++ in i686 version, but they'll be installed and they'll run. Regards, ___ CentOS

[CentOS] server version on laptop

2010-12-17 Thread Johan Scheepers
Good day, What can I expect if I should install a server version of a distro on my laptop, please. Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] centos 5.5 x86_64 - mplayer install problems

2010-12-16 Thread Johan Scheepers
good day, I have tried to install mplayer according to instructions from the following sites..: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS Then last..: [r...@johan ~]# yum install libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay

[CentOS] yum-complete-transaction

2010-12-04 Thread Johan Scheepers
Good day, Some yum instructions I do not know. Kindly some pointers please. There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them. The program yum-complete-transaction is found in the yum-utils package. This is where I am lost

Re: [CentOS] (SOLVED) yum-complete-transaction

2010-12-04 Thread Johan Scheepers
Johan Scheepers wrote: Good day, Some yum instructions I do not know. Kindly some pointers please. There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them. The program yum-complete-transaction is found in the yum-utils

Re: [CentOS] yum-complete-transaction

2010-12-04 Thread Johan Scheepers
Les Mikesell wrote: On 12/4/10 4:20 AM, Johan Scheepers wrote: Good day, Some yum instructions I do not know. Kindly some pointers please. There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them. The program yum-complete

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3

2010-12-03 Thread Johan Scheepers
Ron Blizzard wrote: On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Johan Scheepers johans...@telkomsa.net wrote: Good day, Been googling about this matter. Afraid I am now confused. Too many options..: for/against/whatever. Some is years ago. Kindly please a step x step manner in which to accomplish

[CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3

2010-12-01 Thread Johan Scheepers
Good day, Been googling about this matter. Afraid I am now confused. Too many options..: for/against/whatever. Some is years ago. Kindly please a step x step manner in which to accomplish to enable mp3 please. Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3

2010-12-01 Thread Johan Scheepers
Johan Scheepers wrote: Good day, Been googling about this matter. Afraid I am now confused. Too many options..: for/against/whatever. Some is years ago. Kindly please a step x step manner in which to accomplish to enable mp3 please. Thanks Johan

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3

2010-12-01 Thread Johan Scheepers
Scot P. Floess wrote: Well - really isn't it all in what tool makes the most sense for the job at hand? If one doesn't need the latest and greatest - CentOS as a desktop is super stable... Don't get me wrong, I like Fedora...but still :) On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Alan Hodgson wrote: On

[CentOS] centos 5.5 - not detecting internet connection

2010-11-30 Thread Johan Scheepers
Good day, By accident booted with dsl internet not connected. When reconnecting dsl - centos did not detect it. Is there a way to make it trigger detection rather then rebooting Please. Thanks Regards Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] ( SOLVED ) Hostname too long

2010-11-30 Thread Johan Scheepers
Good day, Some time ago I asked some assistance for the long hostname in the terminals. Editing .bashrc in user and root by adding PS1=xxx did make the difference. Here is something I picked up on another list that make editing .bashrc not necessary. as root..gedit

[CentOS] centos 5.5 - which partition manager installed

2010-11-29 Thread Johan Scheepers
Good day, Gparted is not available on my installation. Which patition tool is available in centos 5.5 please. Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - which partition manager installed

2010-11-29 Thread Johan Scheepers
Robert Heller wrote: At Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:02:49 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Good day, Gparted is not available on my installation. Which patition tool is available in centos 5.5 please. fdisk, sfdisk, parted, kpartx, and pyparted. fdisk is not recomended

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - which partition manager installed

2010-11-29 Thread Johan Scheepers
Lars Hecking wrote: fdisk, sfdisk, parted, kpartx, and pyparted. fdisk is not recomended for really large disks since it only handles DOS partition tables -- use parted to create GPT partition tables. I prefer GPT fdisk for that and rolled my own rpm ...

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - which partition manager installed

2010-11-29 Thread Johan Scheepers
Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Johan Scheepers johans...@telkomsa.net wrote: Good day, Gparted is not available on my installation. Which patition tool is available in centos 5.5 please. Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - which partition manager installed

2010-11-29 Thread Johan Scheepers
Keith Roberts wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Johan Scheepers wrote: To: centos centos@centos.org From: Johan Scheepers johans...@telkomsa.net Subject: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - which partition manager installed Good day, Gparted is not available on my installation. Which patition tool

[CentOS] centos 5.5 -software updater-break in download

2010-11-25 Thread Johan Scheepers
Good day, New to centos, New install . Using - Software updater While updating - downloading 73 updates there was a break in the download. The break happened close to the end. Now when using software updater again will it start all over again? Go on where the break happened? Could not find on

[CentOS] set and lengthen time between screensavers

2010-11-25 Thread Johan Scheepers
Good day, I am the only user of the laptop at home. Please, How/where can I change to keep to screen longer open. Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Add application to start at booting

2010-11-25 Thread Johan Scheepers
Good day, Please, How/where can I add an application to start at boot up. Don't seem to find it in options available Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Add application to start at booting

2010-11-25 Thread Johan Scheepers
Barry Brimer wrote: Please, How/where can I add an application to start at boot up. Don't seem to find it in options available Again, I assume you are using GNOME under CentOS 5 System - Preferences - More Preferences - Sessions - Startup Programs - Add Barry

Re: [CentOS] set and lengthen time between screensavers

2010-11-25 Thread Johan Scheepers
Barry Brimer wrote: Please, How/where can I change to keep to screen longer open. I assume you are using GNOME under CentOS 5. System - Preferences - Screensaver Barry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Add application to start at booting

2010-11-25 Thread Johan Scheepers
sheraz...@yahoo.com wrote: This was recently answered in another thread Quote Re: [CentOS] best way to start and shutdown programs in CentOS? On 24 November 2010 14:20, killscript killscr...@gmail.com wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: The RedHat/Centos way of doing things is to have init

[CentOS] Terminal - name too long

2010-11-25 Thread Johan Scheepers
Good day, [jo...@unknown2a68 ~]$ How/where could I make the above a lot shorter please. Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Terminal - name too long

2010-11-25 Thread Johan Scheepers
John R Pierce wrote: On 11/25/10 12:36 PM, Johan Scheepers wrote: Good day, [jo...@unknown2a68 ~]$ How/where could I make the above a lot shorter please. A) choose a shorter hostname B) change your default prompt via an export PS1= in $HOME/.bashrc see http

Re: [CentOS] Terminal - name too long

2010-11-25 Thread Johan Scheepers
Chris Geldenhuis wrote: Vnpenguin wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 23:02, Johan Scheepers johans...@telkomsa.net wrote: John R Pierce wrote: On 11/25/10 12:36 PM, Johan Scheepers wrote: Good day, [jo...@unknown2a68 ~]$ How/where could I make

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos

2010-11-19 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 18/11/2010 23:22, Niki Kovacs wrote: Johan Scheepers a écrit : I really do appreciate your time spend to solve this. Manual configuration always works, when everything else failed : # init 3 # cd /etc/X11 # mv xorg.conf xorg.conf.orig # cd # X -configure # mv

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos

2010-11-19 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 19/11/2010 12:00, John Doe wrote: From: Johan Scheepersjohans...@telkomsa.net On 18/11/2010 23:22, Niki Kovacs wrote: Manual configuration always works, when everything else failed : # init 3 # cd /etc/X11 # mv xorg.conf xorg.conf.orig # cd # X -configure # mv

[CentOS] centos 5.5 x86_64 live cd

2010-11-18 Thread Johan Scheepers
good day, I am new to centos. Using a standalone laptop. Downloaded and burned the live cd. All seem ok except screen resolution only 800x600. Most importand I do not seem to find the install to hard disk option anywhere. Some distros I tried do have an option to install on the screen when

[CentOS] New to Centos

2010-11-18 Thread Johan Scheepers
Good day, I would like to first test and then use centos 5.5. I downloaded centos 5.5 x86_64 live CD. Problem...screen resolution only 800x600. In fedora 14 it is 1024x768, same in debian squeeze and opensuse11.3. Could there be a way to increase the resolution? in either i386 or x86_64.

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos

2010-11-18 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 18/11/2010 20:37, Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Johan Scheepersjohans...@telkomsa.net wrote: Good day, I would like to first test and then use centos 5.5. I downloaded centos 5.5 x86_64 live CD. Problem...screen resolution only 800x600. In fedora 14 it

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos

2010-11-18 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 18/11/2010 21:38, Les Mikesell wrote: On 11/18/2010 1:21 PM, Johan Scheepers wrote: What graphics cardmonitor do you have? In debian this... jo...@johan:~$ lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos

2010-11-18 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 18/11/2010 21:38, Les Mikesell wrote: On 11/18/2010 1:21 PM, Johan Scheepers wrote: What graphics cardmonitor do you have? In debian this... jo...@johan:~$ lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA