Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 host -> VMware host

2021-03-17 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, -- Greg Ennis I am trying to move some Centos 7 guests off of a Centos 8 host to a VMware host machine. qemu-img is a great tool in kvm to convert the files from *.qcow2 to *.vmdk very easily with the command : qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O vmdk *.qcow2 *.vmdk I have been able to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-dvd-2009.iso is too big for DVD blanks

2021-03-17 Thread Michael Hennebry
Supergrub will boot some .iso files. In the past, I have directly booted a partition I made from a fedora .iso file. Another option *might* be making another .iso file. Mount the file. Copy its filesystem to a directory. Remove some stuff you can live without. Make another .iso file using

[CentOS] new observations: Re: Centos 7 installer alert! message

2021-03-17 Thread R C
Hello, I installed 72G ram in a Dell (it canhandle 72G according to Dell).  The BIOS says there are 9 8G DIMMs install (BIOS test shows no errors).  dmidecode says there are indeed 9 DIMMs, and they show all fine, no errors etc. However, free reports tehre's only 54G  available. So I (I am

Re: [CentOS] new observations: Re: Centos 7 installer alert! message

2021-03-17 Thread R C
Hi Chris, I just checked, no there no memory/ram/DIMMs mentioned in boot.log. Ron On 3/17/21 12:28 PM, Christopher Wensink wrote: Is it in boot.log? Chris On 3/17/2021 1:14 PM, R C wrote: Hello, I installed 72G ram in a Dell (it canhandle 72G according to Dell).  The BIOS says there

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-dvd-2009.iso is too big for DVD blanks

2021-03-17 Thread André Verwijs via CentOS
I blueray disk (25GB)?? works great :) Op 17-03-2021 om 03:03 schreef H: On March 16, 2021 11:16:21 AM EDT, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sun, 14 Mar 2021, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: We need to ask the developers to make a re-spin that's about 5MB smaller. And before someone

Re: [CentOS] new observations: Re: Centos 7 installer alert! message

2021-03-17 Thread R C
right,  I did that,  I don't see any errors in dmesg On 3/17/21 12:30 PM, Binet, Valere (NIH/NIA/IRP) [C] wrote: Hi Ron, I replied to the list but I've come to believe my emails to the list don't go through. Anyway, my reply was: I assume you already looked and didn't find anything in

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-dvd-2009.iso is too big for DVD blanks

2021-03-17 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 11:42:40PM -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: > > I'm sure it would, but I thought I made it clear that DL or BluRay have > never been options in this case. I'm disappointed that the DVD iso was > released without any release notes advising it was oversized

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-dvd-2009.iso is too big for DVD blanks

2021-03-17 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Wed, 2021-03-17 at 20:41 +0100, André Verwijs via CentOS wrote: > > I blueray disk (25GB)?? works great :) André, I'm sure it would, but I thought I made it clear that DL or BluRay have never been options in this case. I'm disappointed that the DVD iso was released without any release notes