Re: [CentOS] What is the universal (world wide) understanding behind degaussing harddisks?

2018-04-02 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 02/04/18 15:09, wwp wrote: > Hello, > > > On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 10:01:56 -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: >>> Good evening from Singapore! >>> >>> The foremost question which I want to ask is, what is the universal >>> (world wide) understanding behind

[CentOS] HP Elitebook 8460p

2015-07-10 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. I'm intending to install CentOS 7 on a HP Elitebook 8460p. Does anybody have any experience of this? Many thanks for any help. Cheers, Phil... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] HP Elitebook 8460p

2015-07-10 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. I'm looking to install CentOS 7 to my HP Elitebook 8460p (Intel i5, 4gig of RAM, 250 HD). Has anybody had any experience with this laptop CentOS 7? Many thanks for any help. Regards, Phil... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] HP Elitebook 8460p

2015-07-10 Thread Phil Dobbin
is far less then 2 Terabytes. suomi On 07/10/2015 11:34 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. I'm intending to install CentOS 7 on a HP Elitebook 8460p. Does anybody have any experience of this? Many thanks for any help. Cheers, Phil

Re: [CentOS] EPEL problem

2014-01-25 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 24/11/13 00:09, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 24.11.2013 00:57, schrieb Phil Dobbin: I'm trying to install the EPEL repo on a fully up to date CentOS 6.4. I'm using wget to download from my usual source but after I install it via `sudo rpm -ivh epel-x` it's not actually there in `/etc

Re: [CentOS] EPEL problem

2014-01-25 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 25/01/14 21:12, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: On 01/25/2014 10:08 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 24/11/13 00:09, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 24.11.2013 00:57, schrieb Phil Dobbin: I'm trying to install the EPEL repo on a fully up to date CentOS 6.4. I'm using wget to download from my usual source

Re: [CentOS] intrusive chrome [was: Re: clicking on link in Thunderbird fails to open page in Firefox]

2013-12-26 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 26/12/13 13:53, ken wrote: On 12/25/2013 09:09 PM Phil Dobbin wrote: On 25/12/13 18:08, ken wrote: This worked fine for years until I updated firefox and thunderbird recently. Now, however, when I click on a link in an email in thunderbird, rather than open the indicated webpage

Re: [CentOS] clicking on link in Thunderbird fails to open page in Firefox

2013-12-25 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 25/12/13 18:08, ken wrote: This worked fine for years until I updated firefox and thunderbird recently. Now, however, when I click on a link in an email in thunderbird, rather than open the indicated webpage in firefox, nothing at all happens. network.protocol-handler.app.http in

Re: [CentOS] Have a great Holiday season

2013-12-24 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 24/12/13 18:45, Karanbir Singh wrote: hi, Here is wishing everyone in the CentOS community a great holiday season, awesome new year and a great 2014. May 2014 bring friendlier + larger communities, stabler distros and a general reduction in systems frustrations for the users! I'd like

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-12 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/12/13 11:17, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 12/12/2013 11:03 AM, Peter wrote: I've installed RHEL7 onto a Xen VM running off a CentOS 6 host. this is a great test to have done. Would really like to hear comments about process and result. I presume this is with the Xen4CentOS stack ? - KB I

[CentOS] EPEL problem

2013-11-23 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. I'm trying to install the EPEL repo on a fully up to date CentOS 6.4. I'm using wget to download from my usual source but after I install it via `sudo rpm -ivh epel-x` it's not actually there in `/etc/yum.repos.d`. Trying to install it again, Yum just tells me it's already

Re: [CentOS] Weird netinstall issue

2013-10-01 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/10/13 08:20, John R Pierce wrote: On 9/30/2013 11:49 PM, g wrote: 1st, i would not consider a net install unless i was protected by going thru a good firewall server. a DHCP/PXE server isnt going to reply to internet queries, and your TFTP server should be restricted to local addresses

Re: [CentOS] Weird netinstall issue

2013-09-30 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 30/09/13 13:18, zGreenfelder wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:13 AM, Carl T. Miller c...@carltm.com wrote: Phil Dobbin wrote: The other day I burnt a copy of a CentOS 6.4 64 bit netinstall disc, verified the disc which passed about a third of the way through the install it informed me

[CentOS] Weird netinstall issue

2013-09-29 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi. The other day I burnt a copy of a CentOS 6.4 64 bit netinstall disc, verified the disc which passed about a third of the way through the install it informed me that there was no CD in the drive refused to carry on. So I burnt another the same thing happened. So using the same disk

Re: [CentOS] erase disk

2013-09-28 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 26/09/13 20:33, John R Pierce wrote: On 9/26/2013 11:30 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: I have a CentOS server (a Dell 860) with two drives in it. One is running CentOS 6.4 which I want to keep the bigger 400GB drive has Debian 7 on it which I want to erase use for backups. Which is the best

Re: [CentOS] erase disk

2013-09-28 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 28/09/13 16:35, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 26/09/13 20:33, John R Pierce wrote: On 9/26/2013 11:30 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: I have a CentOS server (a Dell 860) with two drives in it. One is running CentOS 6.4 which I want to keep the bigger 400GB drive has Debian 7 on it which I want to erase

[CentOS] erase disk

2013-09-26 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi. I have a CentOS server (a Dell 860) with two drives in it. One is running CentOS 6.4 which I want to keep the bigger 400GB drive has Debian 7 on it which I want to erase use for backups. Which is the best way to go about achieving my intended goal? The Debian drive is not mounted when

[CentOS] yum problem

2013-09-07 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. I'm experiencing a problem with Yum. When I call 'sudo yum update' it tells me that it can't find any mirrors after doing a 'sudo yum clean all' it just informs me it can't find any base repo quits. This is on a brand new installation of CentOS 6.2 x86_64. I suffered the same

Re: [CentOS] yum problem

2013-09-07 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 07/09/13 15:07, Brian Miller wrote: On Sat, 2013-09-07 at 13:01 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: I'm experiencing a problem with Yum. When I call 'sudo yum update' it tells me that it can't find any mirrors after doing a 'sudo yum clean all' it just informs me it can't find any base repo quits

[CentOS] Mirror problem

2013-08-14 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. I was getting: `http://mirror01.th.ifl.net/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - Couldn't resolve host 'mirror01.th.ifl.net' Trying other mirror.

[CentOS] Mirror failure

2013-08-14 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. I was getting: `http://mirror01.th.ifl.net/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - Couldn't resolve host 'mirror01.th.ifl.net' Trying other mirror.

Re: [CentOS] Mirror failure

2013-08-14 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 14/08/13 21:35, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. I was getting: `http://mirror01.th.ifl.net/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - Couldn't resolve host 'mirror01

Re: [CentOS] Mirror failure

2013-08-14 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 14/08/13 21:57, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Phil Dobbin wrote: On 14/08/13 21:35, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. I was getting: `http://mirror01.th.ifl.net/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2

Re: [CentOS] Mirror failure

2013-08-14 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 14/08/13 21:48, Frank Cox wrote: On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:45:05 +0100 Phil Dobbin wrote: If you could explain why that would work I'd be eternally grateful all ears. man yum read the CLEAN OPTIONS section near the bottom Thank you. Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Mirror failure

2013-08-14 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 14/08/13 22:05, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Phil Dobbin wrote: On 14/08/13 21:57, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Phil Dobbin wrote: On 14/08/13 21:35, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Phil Dobbin wrote: I was getting: `http://mirror01.th.ifl.net/epel/6/x86_64/repodata

[CentOS] CentOS 5 netinstall problem

2013-05-06 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. I'm attempting to install CentOS 5 via netinstall from mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386 it gets as far as formatting the disk but when it gets to: 'Starting install process. This may take take several minutes...' it hangs forever (well, a couple of hours). Dropping down in a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 netinstall problem

2013-05-06 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 05/06/2013 10:30 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. I'm attempting to install CentOS 5 via netinstall from mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386 it gets as far as formatting the disk but when it gets to: 'Starting install process. This may take take several minutes...' it hangs forever

Re: [CentOS] Cents OS from Bash Shell

2013-04-25 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 04/25/2013 01:39 PM, Dave Cross wrote: On 25 April 2013 13:30, Mike Burger mbur...@bubbanfriends.org wrote: On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 13:04 +0100, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: I want to know the right command to type from a bash shell so that i can 1) Check the version of my cent os

Re: [CentOS] Cents OS from Bash Shell

2013-04-25 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 04/26/2013 12:40 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 26.04.2013 01:35, schrieb Phil Dobbin: How odd. On my 64-bit CentOS 6.3, 'lsb_release -a' returns: 'bash: lsb_release: command not found' Works on Debian 6.0.5 Ubuntu 12.04.2 12.10. The CentOS distro is a cloud server image

Re: [CentOS] cheap cloud providors

2013-02-16 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 02/16/2013 08:40 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: Hey guys, Apologies in advance if this question is in poor taste. But I've really fallen in love with learning about the cassanrdra database. The only problem is that it doesn't run very well on an t1.micro instance at amazon and the larger sizes

Re: [CentOS] recent ruby packages?

2013-02-05 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 02/05/2013 07:55 AM, pnorton3...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe we should think about writing the kernel in java/python/ruby/php etc? Wonder why this hasn't happened before? Linus is on Google +. I'm sure he'd be more than happy to answer that one for you :-) Cheers, Phil... -- currently

Re: [CentOS] recent ruby packages?

2013-02-05 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 02/05/2013 04:26 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 02/04/2013 03:37 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: I've used the Ruby Version Manager https://rvm.io/ for all things Ruby for a few years now can highly recommend it. Rvm is good for developer instances, but dont ever put rvm into a production

Re: [CentOS] recent ruby packages?

2013-02-05 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 02/05/2013 05:49 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 02/05/2013 05:38 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: Would you mind if I passed on this information to Michal Papis who's one of the lead developers of RVM? He's always on the lookout for feedback absolutely. Its not rvm thats at fault, its the build

Re: [CentOS] recent ruby packages?

2013-02-04 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 02/04/2013 03:21 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Does anyone know of a repository that's *trustworthy* (gotta worry 'bout malware) with newer ruby rpm's than RHEL has? OT: the more I deal with ruby, the less I like it. Someone here was ready to move to a newer version, and from the ruby.org

Re: [CentOS] recent ruby packages?

2013-02-04 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 02/04/2013 07:36 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 2/4/2013 7:21 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Does anyone know of a repository that's*trustworthy* (gotta worry 'bout malware) with newer ruby rpm's than RHEL has? OT: the more I deal with ruby, the less I like it. Someone here was ready to move

Re: [CentOS] recent ruby packages?

2013-02-04 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 02/04/2013 11:36 PM, Craig White wrote: On Feb 4, 2013, at 3:54 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Craig White craig.wh...@ttiltd.com wrote: You, on the other hand, have already come here with the attitude of my way or the highway; this is *NOT* the way to

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3 git core.sharedRepository = group/all not working?

2013-01-29 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/30/2013 03:34 AM, Min Wang wrote: HI I have a git bare repo on centos 6.3 ( with selinux off) the config is: [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = true sharedRepository = all ( or true or group) chmod -R g+rs objects when git

Re: [CentOS] centos certification

2013-01-23 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/23/2013 12:10 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2013/1/23 Adekoya Adekunle adekunleadek...@gmail.com: hi, any certification on centos ? if yes where can i buy study materials ? rhce/rhcsa

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-14 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/11/2013 02:59 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 01/11/2013 02:55 PM, SilverTip257 wrote: I'm in search of some hardware that consumes a low amount of power for use as a test-bed for Linux, various coding projects, and LAN services. I have a couple of HP MicroServers N40L's with 8gb of ram

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-14 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/14/2013 09:03 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 1/14/2013 7:24 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: Looking at the specs for N40Ls though put me off because they're rated at 150W. Or am I missing something here? that may be the PSU rating, but 55W active is more typical, and thats with 4 3TB 7200rpm

Re: [CentOS] Live CD iso

2012-12-29 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/29/2012 09:54 AM, James Freer wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2012, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/28/2012 3:21 PM, James Freer wrote: You mean the bin DVD. Thing is with the DVD they are big for broadband download. I think i'd buy one. But i appreciate your advice. unless your broadband is

Re: [CentOS] Live CD iso

2012-12-29 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/29/2012 10:46 AM, James Freer wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2012, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 12/29/2012 09:54 AM, James Freer wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2012, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/28/2012 3:21 PM, James Freer wrote: You mean the bin DVD. Thing is with the DVD they are big for broadband

Re: [CentOS] Live CD iso

2012-12-29 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/29/2012 09:37 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/29/2012 2:46 AM, James Freer wrote: I'm with BT Infinity in the UK. Unmetered 75 MBps down 15 up. hmm - i think i need to have a word with BT! But i don't see how you can be unmetered and then 75 down and 15 up tbh. Bit more learning and

Re: [CentOS] Live CD iso

2012-12-29 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/30/2012 12:22 AM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: On Saturday 29 December 2012, James Freer jessejazza3...@gmail.com wrote: In the UK most broadband providers offer 10GB. Obviously, I'm not familiar with the market in the UK, but here in Canada, many ISPs offer a basic or beginner

Re: [CentOS] Live CD iso

2012-12-28 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/28/2012 08:28 PM, James Freer wrote: Hi folks I'm just about to start using Centos again. I used it briefly a couple of years ago but found the switch to rpm a bit much after using deb for 5 years. Now there seem to be a lot of changes on the deb front so i'm going to try again

Re: [CentOS] Help Getting Postfix relaying via Gmail

2012-12-27 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/27/2012 11:16 AM, Clint Dilks wrote: Hi, I am trying to get a CentOS 6 system relaying mail via my G-Mail account. I followed the instructions found at https://www.zulius.com/how-to/set-up-postfix-with-a-remote-smtp-relay-host/but there seems to be a problem with authentication. I

Re: [CentOS] How to configure sendmail

2012-12-02 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/02/2012 08:09 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2012/12/2 Todd Cary t...@aristesoftware.com: In reading my Linux Admin books and looking at the help files I am confused about what entries to enter into sendmail.mc. To date I have not had to configure sendmail since I use a class in PHP that

Re: [CentOS] How to configure sendmail

2012-12-02 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/03/2012 01:54 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/2/2012 5:47 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: If you don't like things that use traditional unix tools for the purposes they were designed, why are you interested in using linux at all? From a user perspective making a few changes to sendmail.mc and

Re: [CentOS] 6.3 installer keeps cycling in a 10 second countdown to boot

2012-11-24 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 11/25/2012 04:51 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: Hi. I've been running CentOS 5 for ages. (Thanks!) I went to install 6.3 - I downloaded the 64-bit DVD 1 image, and put it on a USB drive. Booted into a screen that said boot will start in 10.. 9... 8.. 7.. 6.. 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.. 10..

Re: [CentOS] Long time away for Centos installs, need some info

2012-11-23 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 11/23/2012 08:26 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 21:12 +0100, Radu Anghel wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: On 11/23/2012 02:37 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 14:24 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

Re: [CentOS] Ruby rails rpm package

2012-11-20 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 11/20/2012 08:39 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote: Hi all, Somebody knows if exists some rpm package for ruby rails?? Normally, rubygems is the way to go to install Rails. Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using CentOS 5.8 6.3, Debian Squeeze Wheezy, Fedora Beefy, OS X Snow Leopard

Re: [CentOS] Ruby rails rpm package

2012-11-20 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 11/20/2012 11:53 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Phil Dobbin bukowskis...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/20/2012 08:39 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote: Hi all, Somebody knows if exists some rpm package for ruby rails?? Normally, rubygems is the way to go to install Rails

Re: [CentOS] full image backup

2012-10-30 Thread Phil Dobbin
Mike Burger wrote: Hi every body I am a new centos user. I installed centos 6 on my laptop and add some software to it. How can I create a full image (boot able) back up of it. ( some thing like windows full image backup). please help! Mondo Rescue! http://www.mondorescue.org/ I'll

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 on Dell Poweredge R815

2012-10-16 Thread Phil Dobbin
Steve Thompson wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Surya Saha wrote: Any folks on this list who have installed CentOS 6.3 on the new Dell Poweredge R815 servers? How was your experience? Thanks I don't have any R815's, but I have run CentOS 6.3 on a variety of other Dell hardware (PE2900,

[CentOS] Hostname

2012-10-11 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. A very basic question but I'm wondering if anyone could give me a definitive answer. I recently installed CentOS 6.3 x86_64 on a Dell Poweredge 1850 (minimal desktop) after setting the hostname during the install, when bringing up a terminal prompt, I'm still getting

Re: [CentOS] Hostname

2012-10-11 Thread Phil Dobbin
Leon Fauster wrote: Am 11.10.2012 um 09:15 schrieb Phil Dobbin: I recently installed CentOS 6.3 x86_64 on a Dell Poweredge 1850 (minimal desktop) after setting the hostname during the install, when bringing up a terminal prompt, I'm still getting `localhost.localdomain` instead

Re: [CentOS] Installing a gnome-desktop on CENTOS-6.3 following minimal system install.

2012-10-05 Thread Phil Dobbin
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Nux! wrote: On 05.10.2012 14:31, Nux! wrote: On 05.10.2012 14:05, James B. Byrne wrote: So what is it that I am missing? What other step is required to get my 'normal' gnome desktop with the utilities ans such displayed in the title bar? Try: yum groupinstall

Re: [CentOS] vi defaults in 6.x

2012-08-16 Thread Phil Dobbin
SilverTip257 wrote: +1 for .vimrc config files vi is generally a symlink to vim these days. @Les, I've seen the auto-comment behavior you speak of. You may want to set formatoptions [0] in your .vimrc [0] http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/change.html#fo-table @Joseph: You have

Re: [CentOS] About Nagios Mail notification

2012-08-10 Thread Phil Dobbin
Scott Robbins wrote: I would try using the article at the CentOS wiki on nagios--even though it's dated, it's still one of the best docs on nagios (which generally has horrible docs, at least it did when I set it up years ago). See how far you get with that. I'm assuming that

Re: [CentOS] About Nagios Mail notification

2012-08-10 Thread Phil Dobbin
Phil Dobbin wrote: [snip] Sorry, my mistake, it was the Ubuntu mailing list... Cheers, Phil. -- currently (ab)using CentOS 6.2, Debian Squeeze, Fedora Beefy, OS X Snow Leopard, Ubuntu Precise ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] Oracle tries to capture CentOS users

2012-08-03 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fernando Cassia wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Brian Mathis brian.mathis+cen...@betteradmin.com wrote: Is any part of this thread related to CentOS anymore? I suggest death by stoning to anyone who dares to engage into light chat

Re: [CentOS] SELinux in CentOS 6

2012-07-27 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Doe wrote: From: Beartooth bearto...@comcast.net It keeps butting in when I try to install map software from Garmin under Wine. I'm not nearly competent not willing to apply the remedy it suggests. How do I get to someplace where I

Re: [CentOS] 6.1 .iso size?

2011-12-05 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 5/12/11 10:53, Ljubomir Ljubojevic off...@plnet.rs wrote: What does it wouldn't take means? Can you give us some better idea? details. Could it be just a graphic mode? Did you try to change kernel parameters? Was there any error shown? What were exact models involved so we can see

Re: [CentOS] 6.1 .iso size?

2011-12-05 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 5/12/11 19:11, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 12/05/11 11:00 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I guarantee that there'll be 32 bit systems for a minimum of 10 more years. Esp. in the current depression, everyone will hang onto what they have until the boxen die, or look to die. And

Re: [CentOS] 6.1 .iso size?

2011-12-05 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 5/12/11 20:52, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] But back to the 'spirit of open source' - I thought that meant that if you didn't like it you could fix it yourself. And I thought someone had already done a non-PAE kernel or was working on it to make PXE-booted thin

Re: [CentOS] 6.1 .iso size?

2011-12-04 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 4/12/11 17:24, RILINDO FOSTER rili...@me.com wrote: http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/6.0/isos/i386/CentOS-6.0-i386-LiveDVD.i so http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/6.0/isos/i386/CentOS-6.0-i386-netinstal l.iso Thanks for that but I'm actually looking for a Live CD of i386

Re: [CentOS] 6.1 .iso size?

2011-12-04 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 4/12/11 23:30, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 12/04/2011 06:21 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: CentOS 6 won't run on my machine whereas 5.7 will. Why is that ? By co-incidence, as Beartooth posted earlier, I also tried to install CentOS 6 on a ThinkPad but it wouldn't take. I used

Re: [CentOS] 6.1 .iso size?

2011-12-04 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 5/12/11 00:41, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 12/05/2011 12:33 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: By co-incidence, as Beartooth posted earlier, I also tried to install CentOS 6 on a ThinkPad but it wouldn't take. I used to have a copy of a CentOS 5.7 Live CD that worked O.K. on an old