Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.5 on USB stick performance / stalls

2014-02-27 Thread Blake Hudson
Most USB flash drives have horrid performance, especially for writes and doubly especially for random writes. For a live linux distro, I would recommend a Sandisk Extreme or anything from Patriot. Rainer Traut wrote the following on 2/27/2014 6:17 AM: > Hi, > > I am running C6.5 64bit on an USB

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 install

2014-02-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Michael Hennebry wrote: >> UEFI can address 4TB. >> If you are using BIOS, that could be a problem. >> With 512-byte sectors, 2TB is about the maximum representable offset. >> >> BTW all the documentation I've seen about BIOS >> boot sequences assume

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 install

2014-02-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Kenny Noe wrote: > Thanks to all the replies... Very interesting stuff... However I'm still > trying to understand how to have a hardware RAID 5 (4x 1TB disk) system and > load CentOS on it. I'm looking for the UEFI bios but don't understand > this. I want to install LVM

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 install

2014-02-27 Thread m . roth
Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Kenny Noe wrote: > >> Thanks to all the replies... Very interesting stuff... However I'm >> still trying to understand how to have a hardware RAID 5 (4x 1TB disk) system >> and load CentOS on it. I'm looking for the UEFI bios but don't understand >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 install

2014-02-27 Thread Kenny Noe
No I haven't selected any legacy stuff in the bios. Thanks for the suggestion... --Kenny On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Kenny Noe wrote: > > Thanks to all the replies... Very interesting stuff... However I'm > still > > trying to un

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 install

2014-02-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Kenny Noe wrote: > Thanks to all the replies... Very interesting stuff... However I'm still > trying to understand how to have a hardware RAID 5 (4x 1TB disk) system and > load CentOS on it. I'm looking for the UEFI bios but don't understand > this. I want to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 install

2014-02-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Michael Hennebry >> wrote: > >>> Make /home , /var and /opt soft links to directories on /onebigpartition . >>> I've done similar when I wanted /home off the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 install

2014-02-27 Thread Kenny Noe
Thanks to all the replies... Very interesting stuff... However I'm still trying to understand how to have a hardware RAID 5 (4x 1TB disk) system and load CentOS on it. I'm looking for the UEFI bios but don't understand this. I want to install LVM on top of the single RAID volume, then I can cr

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 install

2014-02-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Michael Hennebry > wrote: >> Make /home , /var and /opt soft links to directories on /onebigpartition . >> I've done similar when I wanted /home off the root partition, >> but did not want to give it its own partition.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 install

2014-02-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Wed, 26 Feb 2014, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:12 PM, wrote: >> > Is there a way to get /home, /var, and /opt installed as directories >

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.5 on USB stick performance / stalls

2014-02-27 Thread SilverTip257
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Rainer Traut wrote: > Hi, > > I am running C6.5 64bit on an USB stick connected to a HP DL360G7; > You mean flash memory? (And not a conventional spinning disk drive in an external enclosure.) Yikes. > It is usually an ESXi host but eg for firmware updates (not

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 install

2014-02-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 26 Feb 2014, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:12 PM, wrote: > Is there a way to get /home, /var, and /opt installed as directories on that other "one big partition"? /var in particular has an odd

[CentOS] Centos 6.5 on USB stick performance / stalls

2014-02-27 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, I am running C6.5 64bit on an USB stick connected to a HP DL360G7; It is usually an ESXi host but eg for firmware updates (not available on SPP) I use this local installation. Problem are the lags and unresponsiveness we are seeing for example when running yum update in the installation pha

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Re: [CentOS] How to build scl python-setuptools from src.rpm?

2014-02-27 Thread titan
omg, I'm careless thanks, it's job 2014-02-27 12:24 GMT+02:00 Johnny Hughes : > On 02/27/2014 03:42 AM, titan wrote: > > i modified mock config and nothing be change > > > > build.log: http://pastebin.com/ke4pKX4Y > > root.log: http://pastebin.com/aza0r4Yf > > You still do not have python27-buil

Re: [CentOS] How to build scl python-setuptools from src.rpm?

2014-02-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 02/27/2014 03:42 AM, titan wrote: > i modified mock config and nothing be change > > build.log: http://pastebin.com/ke4pKX4Y > root.log: http://pastebin.com/aza0r4Yf You still do not have python27-build in your root.log ... you added python27 and not python27-build to the config. See my exampl

Re: [CentOS] How to build scl python-setuptools from src.rpm?

2014-02-27 Thread titan
i modified mock config and nothing be change build.log: http://pastebin.com/ke4pKX4Y root.log: http://pastebin.com/aza0r4Yf 2014-02-27 11:01 GMT+02:00 Johnny Hughes : > On 02/27/2014 12:06 AM, titan wrote: > > ok > > build.log: http://pastebin.com/BvQ5au2h > > root.log: http://pastebin.com/UF5k

Re: [CentOS] How to build scl python-setuptools from src.rpm?

2014-02-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 02/27/2014 12:06 AM, titan wrote: > ok > build.log: http://pastebin.com/BvQ5au2h > root.log: http://pastebin.com/UF5kPPuj When building SCL packages, you need to add 2 things to the build root directly ... scl-utils-build and -build package Your root log seems to have scl-utils-build, but not