Re: [CentOS] livemedia-creator --make-pxe-live CentOS 7

2019-12-26 Thread Drew Weaver
y). I also have the impression that it is a dracut issue, however, I have not pinpointed it yet. Ron On 12/26/19 9:57 AM, Drew Weaver wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to build a PXE boot image for CentOS 7. > > livemedia-creator --make-pxe-live --ks=ks --no-virt > > It runs

[CentOS] livemedia-creator --make-pxe-live CentOS 7

2019-12-26 Thread Drew Weaver
5sum kernel memtest86+ syslinux -dracut-config-rescue dell-system-update # This package is needed to boot the iso on UEFI grub2-efi-*-cdboot grub2-efi-ia32 %end Thanks, -Drew ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [OT] PXE Boot / image server for non-profit's computers

2014-04-08 Thread Drew Weaver
want to do that before pxeboot rebuilding it... for legal reasons. >>> He could also always just chain pxeboot the imager to create the backup and then the installer to install the new OS. -Drew ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 install

2014-02-26 Thread Drew Weaver
You can simply create two virtual disks from the single RAID-5 volume. Create one that is like 500GB for the OS volume and then create a 2nd one which uses the remainder of the space. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ke

Re: [CentOS] LSI MegaRAID experience...

2013-07-19 Thread Drew Weaver
John Doe wrote: > From: Drew Weaver > >> If these drives do not have TLER do not use them with LSI controllers. > > Not sure about TLER on those Plextors... TLER would only show up on something that looks at a *very* low level on the physical drive. What I know is that y

Re: [CentOS] LSI MegaRAID experience...

2013-07-19 Thread Drew Weaver
Not sure about TLER on those Plextors... This is what megacli says: Enclosure Device ID: 252 Slot Number: 0 Drive's position: DiskGroup: 0, Span: 0, Arm: 0 Enclosure position: N/A Device Id: 0 WWN: 4154412020202020 Sequence Number: 2 Media Error Count: 0 Ot

Re: [CentOS] LSI MegaRAID experience...

2013-07-19 Thread Drew Weaver
If these drives do not have TLER do not use them with LSI controllers. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John Doe Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 5:13 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] LSI MegaRAID experience...

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart just create /boot, recommended swap and / with whatever is left.

2013-04-02 Thread Drew Weaver
Drew Weaver wrote: > Howdy, > > The default partitioning scheme appears to be: > > swap > /boot > / small amount of space > /home remainder of space. > > Is there any way via kickstart to have it just create swap with the > recommended size, /boot, and then

[CentOS] Kickstart just create /boot, recommended swap and / with whatever is left.

2013-04-02 Thread Drew Weaver
/vgs etc? I figured there would be an autopart -atomic option but that doesn't seem to exist. Any advice? Thanks, -Drew ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] an actual hacked machine, in a preserved state

2012-01-03 Thread Drew
h to protect against 2 of them. Which ones would you chose to protect? -- Drew ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

2011-12-31 Thread Drew
need to be blocked at your firewall. In fact the linux based router's we use have a specific "Country Blocking" feature which I use to block large swathes of the Net from our systems. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only t

Re: [CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

2011-12-31 Thread Drew
copy of putty (when I'm on a windows box). You don't need it if you never move around. What matters is the use of the certificate. Token may have been the incorrect word as RSA's keyfobs are sometime called tokens. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be fe

Re: [CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

2011-12-31 Thread Drew
to move onto another target one of his script-kiddies found for him. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Unplugging DVI causes Disabling IRQ #11

2011-12-15 Thread Drew Weaver
I posted this as a bug to redhat's bugzilla I think in January of 2011. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Scott Johnson Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 11:39 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Unplugging DVI causes

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-12 Thread Drew
> Isn't that D-Link DSN-5110 series a rebadged Dot Hill box? Rebranded iStor Networks iS512. Incidentally iStor was bought out by Promise so they now OEM the product line for D-Link. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.&q

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-12 Thread Drew
Ditto D-Link's DSN-5110 series. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] When will 6.2 be released.

2011-12-09 Thread Drew
> I think this was an attempt at humour, but it didn't work very well. :) For a second I thought it was a sarcastic troll. Then I saw Johnny's name on the email. It gave me a smile and a chuckle. Seriously tho folks. Please let's not get into that flaming thread yet ag

Re: [CentOS] Changes at Red Hat confouding CentOS

2011-11-16 Thread Drew
line of business applications open, and has dreamweaver *and* gimp running in the background. :) All this on a two year old i3 w/ 6GB RAM. Set me back around $900. Larger screen? VGA or HDMI outputs. ;-) Nothing quite beats working on a 55" HDTV in your living room, especially when I have

Re: [CentOS] Running Apache sites as separate users

2011-09-30 Thread Drew
is confusing is what he means by 'codebase?' Does he want each chroot to have it's own independent copy? Or does he want to share the CMS core files across all instances? -- Drew ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Can't boot Centos6 ext4 partition from GAG bootloader

2011-09-19 Thread Drew
but I still keep /boot as ext3. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 6.1 Update request

2011-09-16 Thread Drew
> Step-1, get the major security stuff into 6.0/cr/. Step-3, Profit. ;-) -- Drew "This started out as a hobby and spun horribly out of control." -Unknown ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Where are the CentOS 6 security updates?

2011-09-09 Thread Drew
> Note that this reply is not designed to stir up a bunch of list trolls > and this thread degenerating into a pissing contest isn't going to help > anyone. I'll just cue the drum-roll. :-) -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be un

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 with Dell Broadcom iSCSI Offload, does it work ?

2011-09-09 Thread Drew Weaver
e 'offloading' works. thanks, -Drew -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Antonio da Silva Martins Junior Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 8:01 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] CentOS5 with Dell Broadcom iSCSI O

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.0 and 3ware 9650SE series RAID Performance

2011-09-03 Thread Drew
the improvement is > incremental. Stick with RAID 10. Somebody at IBM must not have gotten the memo then as the M5015/9260-8i is their top of the line on-board RAID controller. :-) -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.0 and 3ware 9650SE series RAID Performance

2011-09-02 Thread Drew
home about in the first place, but for my purposes it works fine. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help

2011-08-23 Thread Drew
> The older ISA (now called PATA = Parallel ATA) has been replaced by SATA > (Serial ATA). SATA has 3 speeds. Most new disks are either SATA 2 or > SATA 3 speed. IDE I assume you meant. :) ISA was the old bus PCI replaced. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to

Re: [CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help

2011-08-23 Thread Drew
than 32 bit and that is > the way software is going. 64bit doesn't specifically make it "more advanced." 64bit CPU's just support for a larger memory addressing space then 32bit CPU's, beyond the 4GB limit of 32bit addresses. -- Drew "Nothing in lif

Re: [CentOS] Cursor disappear when entering WINE application

2011-08-07 Thread Drew
y* at handling documents up to Office 2003 (xls, doc, ppt) it chokes on anything made i Office 2007/2010. And as our parent company uses 2010... -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie "This started out as a hobby and spun horribly ou

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] How to remove Microsoft soft raid?

2011-07-28 Thread Drew
weird interaction between Linux, the BIOS, and the SATA controller (especially early non-"Intel ICH" family) that was traced back to that setting. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread Drew
mpile a NIC driver that wasn't included in the stock kernel. That was with maybe three days experience. :-) -Drew On 07/27/2011, Scot P. Floess wrote: > > Oh wow 768 MB - nice. My laptops have 256 MB and 384 MB - how's that for > old :) > > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Drew

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-27 Thread Drew
I wonder then what people would think about my running SL6 (centos 6 wasn't out yet) on an old P3-866 Toughbook w/ 768MB RAM? :) Only machine in my inventory that I can drag *everywhere* and still doesn't complain. -- Drew ___ CentOS ma

Re: [CentOS] How to remove Microsoft soft raid?

2011-07-21 Thread Drew
>From the sounds of it it's fake raid. M$ doesn't leave any signatures on their raid system that linux will detect. dm/md raid can see fakeraid signatures in newer versions so the installer may be picking up on that. -- Drew On 07/21/2011, Robert Heller wrote: > At Thu, 21 J

Re: [CentOS] About I386 not fitting on one DVD

2011-07-16 Thread Drew
i686 tune(-march=i686) is minimal (less then 1% in benchmarks I've seen) and not worth the extra complexity of managing entire branches of packages for specific processor families. It makes sense however for the x86 vs x86-64 as there's some pretty fundamental differences there. -- Drew

Re: [CentOS] About I386 not fitting on one DVD

2011-07-16 Thread Drew
and a instruction only present in the 486 and better. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] firewall?

2011-07-16 Thread Drew
security in place if you don't logically *and* physically separate your subnets. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] firewall?

2011-07-16 Thread Drew
er is an internet gateway for a network. There I'd consider a single interface system as inherently insecure. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Problem with net-install

2011-07-12 Thread Drew
(mobile) and an older VIA EPIA, which are fully supported in CentOS 5. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Suggest Hardware Raid Controller Card

2011-07-12 Thread Drew
drive it presents to the OS. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Suggest Hardware Raid Controller Card

2011-07-11 Thread Drew
9260 w/ BBU only brings you into the $1000 price range so unless you're buying $1000 pizza boxes from Supermicro (not knocking the brand, I use their kit at home ) that's still not even close to the price of a decently spec'd IBM or HP server. Of course our spec comes in around $6k

Re: [CentOS] Suggest Hardware Raid Controller Card

2011-07-11 Thread Drew
el's SASUC8i (rebranded LSI3082E-R) is true hardware RAID which I recently picked up *new* for $150. They don't do RAID-5/6 or have a BBU but IMO you don't need a BBU for RAID-0/1/10. Where can you pickup a new server for $150? :-P -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be fea

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Bandwidth

2011-07-10 Thread Drew Weaver
. Good job on getting CentOS 5.6 out first however. == 1,540,000 (bps) / 8 * .90 = your maximum throughput in Bps. thanks, -Drew ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-02 Thread Drew
of tolerance, at which point they cut over to battery. The Liebert GXT2/3 family which we use quite a bit of were, until recently, strictly double conversion. -- Drew "This started out as a hobby and spun horribly out of control." -Unknown ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Still having umask problems [resend]

2011-06-26 Thread Drew
ged to 2, 4 or 6 depending on what combination of SGID & SUID sticky bits you want on the directory. -- Drew ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Using umask

2011-06-21 Thread Drew
This may not be the best from a security perspective but as you use samba, why not just set it to force the correct user, group and mask setting for that share? My server at home is setup that way and it works just fine. -Drew On 06/21/2011, Todd Cary wrote: > Grasping a full understanding

Re: [CentOS] increase harddisk diskspace Failed to suspend LogVol00

2011-06-02 Thread Drew
Have you also unmounted the filesystem on LogVol00? -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] SSD for Centos SWAP /tmp & /var/ partition

2011-05-30 Thread Drew
you know, in Jan '09 there was a thread on the linux raid list where they discussed the TRIM command on SSD's. The gist of the conversation (as I understood it) was that for SATA based SSD's, the results of a raw read afterward were non-deterministic, ie you couldn't be certain wh

Re: [CentOS] OT: Why VM?

2011-05-27 Thread Drew
tbed machines for evaluating new software. Testing software on older machines really isn't the best way to test a system's ability to perform in production and there was no way I could justify buying a brand new server just to test some new software that may or may not have value. In our v

Re: [CentOS] Initial 6.0 trees in QA

2011-05-26 Thread Drew
sed to the general public. The only reason we know about them is because of changes made by TPTB to improve transparency & openness into the state of the build process, the hope being that by feeding the community information as needed, they can avoid the recent flame-wars. -- Drew "This

Re: [CentOS] [Thread Cop] [was: Re: OT: wifi, phone, power in India and Malaysia]

2011-05-24 Thread Drew
off-topic but still within the bounds of an acceptable tech question for a *technical* mailing list. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie "This started out as a hobby and spun horribly

Re: [CentOS] SSD for Centos SWAP /tmp & /var/ partition

2011-05-23 Thread Drew
r spinning rust or MLC/SLC NAND Flash is the drive. So SSD's can be SATA, SAS, built into custom PCIe cards (OCZ Revo Drive's & the ilk) or even ATA (never seen one). Regardless it's still an SSD drive. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understo

Re: [CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-20 Thread Drew
d you get situations like 5.6 was. Just my $0.02 form trolling the lists the last few years. :-) -- Drew Waiting patiently for 6.x so he can try out KVM stuff without having to do a from scratch reinstall. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.or

[CentOS] KVM vs ESXi

2011-05-18 Thread Drew
27;t always match what's in the field and you folks are the field. And with CentOS 6 just around the corner (no flame wars please, my nomex pants are at the cleaners :-P ) I'm wanting to know if it's worth holding off another month or so on finalizing my build. Thanks, -- Drew &qu

Re: [CentOS] Problem Making Tarballs

2011-05-16 Thread Drew
> I have a CentOS virtual private server from 1and1.com This may be a non-issue but have you tried compiling stuff before on this machine? Most of the VPS system's I've seen in operation have stripped out the build tools for performance & security reasons. -- Drew "No

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

2011-05-05 Thread Drew Weaver
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta From: Steve Clark To: CentOS mailing list Date: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 10:40:51 AM On 05/02/2011 10:47 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On 5/2/2011 8:57 AM, Steve Clark wrote: O

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Drew
;capped flat rate" services and can't handle the load, that's their problem, not ours. It just means they didn't do their infrastructure capacity planning properly. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie "

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Drew
mputer's root password so they can get on whenever they need to. And last I checked there weren't any laws that prohibited parents from conducting random unannounced inspections of the kid(s) machines. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It

Re: [CentOS] Installing/configuring a second HD

2011-04-27 Thread Drew
to is LVM, then you shouldn't have any issues with the drive auto-mounting. Been a while since I did this but I believe you have to tell LVM about the volume group on that drive before the logical volumes can be mounted. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be unde

Re: [CentOS] is the list dead?

2011-04-20 Thread Drew
> Is the list dead, or just quiet all of the sudden? I'm going to assume people have stopped whining now that their beloved 5.6 is out. :-) -- Drew "This started out as a hobby and spun horribly out of control." -Unknown ___ C

Re: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared

2011-04-19 Thread Drew Weaver
Hi, Just an update to the list. This issue is still present, I even tried it on a different Intel socket 1155 motherboard (DH61WW) which is about as plain vanilla as it gets. It must be something to do with the onboard video and PCI Express. Has anyone been able to get around this? -Drew

Re: [CentOS] [OT] ups advice

2011-04-14 Thread Drew
e price point as APC's Line Interactive Smart UPS family. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 40TB File System Recommendations

2011-04-12 Thread Drew
ty disk :-) I can get Seagate's Constellation ES series SATA drives in 1TB for $125. 2TB will run me around $225. They're not something I'd run my database off, I have 15k SAS drives for that, but for large amounts of storage on the cheap like our backup system, it's just

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-11 Thread Drew
addressed to you and the list, and is plain text AFAIK. All I've done is applied the list's etiquette rules and am careful not to break them. So what are an extra mouse click or two here and there? -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Mar

Re: [CentOS] PCI-X/PCIe RAID controller.

2011-04-09 Thread Drew
k used on the PCIe side of the bridge is sufficient to drive a pair of PCI-X 133 slots at full capacity. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] PCI-X/PCIe RAID controller.

2011-04-09 Thread Drew
ke John posted, it depends on whether your backplane(s) can > feed the u320 card and whether its bus can take the bandwidth. AFAIK, the back plane is rated at U320 speeds. The unit is a Supermicro CSE-M35S (SCA) which is listed as a U320 rated unit. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared.

Re: [CentOS] PCI-X/PCIe RAID controller.

2011-04-09 Thread Drew
ngle channel > of U160 or slower SCSI anyways. In that case there's no real point upgrading. :-) The drives are U160's. I was just hoping a slightly newer card might be available that'd give me a speed boost for cheap. :-) -- Drew "Nothing in life

[CentOS] PCI-X/PCIe RAID controller.

2011-04-08 Thread Drew
cheap but faster then the old PERC? I'm looking for something cheap that'll do RAID-10 but bonus points if it does RAID-5/6. :-) -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS maili

Re: [CentOS] Can anyone suggest a SCSI 3 card in either PCI-X or PCI-E x 4 for a Dell Poweredge 2900?

2011-04-07 Thread Drew
e drive actually :) So have I. It worked for years. Doesn't mean it's a good idea tho. A 29320 (PCIe) or 39320 (PCI-X 133) can be had for under $150. At that price it's worth investing the little bit extra, especially if you're pushing the kinds of backup sets an LTO3 drive seem

Re: [CentOS] VMware vSphere Hypervisor (free ESXi) and mdraid

2011-03-29 Thread Drew
it needs a host OS and doesn't care what it is given as a block device. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization platform choice

2011-03-27 Thread Drew
runs at the hypervisor level that people use for basic admin but VMware is trying to phase that out as most everything you can do with ESX's "console" can be done through ESXi's API's and the remote CLI. Only downside to the free version is certain API's are unavail

Re: [CentOS] My new server

2011-03-26 Thread Drew
> And I see I have to put in a PCI-E NIC, not a common-or-garden PCI. > Why can't they leave things as they are ... Because a PCIe x1 slot smokes your run of the mill PCI slot any day? -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-21 Thread Drew
ng kit over to SLES. If you're already paying for a RHEL subscription, Novell's offer may have a lower cost or offer better value then RHEL -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___

Re: [CentOS] Add repo for xfig package

2011-03-21 Thread Drew
S 5 oriented towards compute clusters. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Race condition with mdadm at boot

2011-03-13 Thread Drew
power it up to when it shows the POST screen. Swapping the 4GB of ECC RAM for a single non-ECC stick greatly speeds that process up so I assume there's some sort of tests it runs that can take a while. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be under

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 does not recognise SAS drives with LSI 1068E Controller

2011-03-09 Thread Drew
ndard PCI ID, the driver wouldn't recognize it. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Marvell SAS/SATA drivers

2011-03-08 Thread Drew
support was a lot better. I also took the time to sit down with a sysadmin I knew and download his knowledge about SCSI which he'd learned over the decades. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie _

Re: [CentOS] OT: Ecommerce hosting

2011-02-24 Thread Drew
>> Would appreciate some suggestions for ecommerce hosting. > > Depends on what you want.  I use beanstream for the bit of stuff that I do. I think he meant web hosting for running an ecommerce oriented website. :-) +1 for BeanStream in any event. -- Drew "Nothing in life is

Re: [CentOS] Server Specs..

2011-02-14 Thread Drew
ing & verification tools on a convenient CD. I use it to pound on off-lease servers before we accept them from our Vendor. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mai

Re: [CentOS] Strange Kernel for Centos 5.5

2011-02-11 Thread Drew
to read how they work and play with it before putting it into production it's actually quite easy to work with. RTFM? :-) -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ipsec with ipv4 and ipv6 not working

2011-02-08 Thread Drew
s so if you want to move IPv6 traffic over a IPv4 IPSEC tunnel you need to encapsulate the IPv6 payload within IPv4 packets. The reverse is also true of IPv4 over IPv6. This is why tunnel brokers like Freenet6 & Teredo exist, you can't push IPv6 traffic out across an IPv4 only network withou

Re: [CentOS] glibc++6.2?

2011-02-02 Thread Drew
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] glibc++6.2?

2011-02-02 Thread Drew
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How to relocate $HOME directory

2011-01-31 Thread Drew
st of the tree and pretty obvious what the files are for. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared

2011-01-19 Thread Drew Weaver
On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 12:35:18 pm Drew Weaver wrote: > The kernel boots fine, and everything works ok until you unplug the monitor > from the DVI port on the motherboard. > > When you unplug the monitor, that IRQ/ACPI message is displayed, and it > screws up the USB and

Re: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared

2011-01-19 Thread Drew Weaver
d in the system. These machines aren't always headless, sometimes we need to plug monitors into them. thanks, -Drew ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared

2011-01-19 Thread Drew Weaver
== I spoke too soon, the problem wasn't fixed but I found the cause of the issue. The above error occurs when you unplug the video cable from the onboard video. As our machines are mainly headless terminals, this will not do at all. I am going to retest with RHEL 6.

Re: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared

2011-01-19 Thread Drew Weaver
rested. I just tried updating the bios, if it freezes again I will boot with acpi=off and then retest. acpi=off in the kernel options has allowed the machine to run for over 12 hours without crashing, we'll see what happens. doesn't seem like a hardware pro

Re: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared

2011-01-18 Thread Drew Weaver
The keyboard that I use to ctrl-alt-del it is USB, but there was no keyboard connected until after it locked up, so it's a chicken and egg thing. -Drew -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of m.r...@5-cent.us Sent: Tu

Re: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared

2011-01-18 Thread Drew Weaver
just tried updating the bios, if it freezes again I will boot with acpi=off and then retest. -Drew From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Drew Weaver Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 3:25 PM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: Re: [CentOS] Intel DH6

Re: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared

2011-01-18 Thread Drew Weaver
Issue still persists, anyway I thought I'd let you guys know in case someone is thinking about getting one or more of these boards. -Drew From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Drew Weaver Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 11:42 AM To: 'Cent

Re: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared

2011-01-18 Thread Drew Weaver
Hi, There does not appear to be a 'Plug and Play OS' option in the BIOS like on previous Intel motherboards. I have disabled all of the USB ports except for the rear panel ones and so far it has been running for awhile. I will see what happens. thanks, -Drew From: centos-boun...@

Re: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared

2011-01-18 Thread Drew Weaver
Hi, It doesn't appear to, it simply shows a little ASCII diagram of what is set for each slot. thanks, -Drew -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Giles Coochey Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 9:39 AM To: centos@cento

Re: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared

2011-01-18 Thread Drew Weaver
everything. thanks, -Drew ____ From: "Drew Weaver" To: "CentOS mailing list" Sent: Tuesday, 18 January, 2011 2:22:04 PM Subject: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared Hello, We have built a couple of CentOS 5.5 systems on

Re: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared

2011-01-18 Thread Drew Weaver
Ah, it is a PCI card and there is only one PCI slot.. -Drew -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Giles Coochey Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 9:24 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ

[CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared

2011-01-18 Thread Drew Weaver
flict, the question is why and how can I avoid it? I have tried disabling all of the extra stuff in the BIOS that I could, and this still happens fairly frequently. Any advice would be great. thanks, -Drew ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cento

Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-29 Thread Drew
e is for > emergencies, not for standard wiring. > > Don't tug on Superman's cape. Don't spit into the wind. Don't pull the > mask off the old Lone Ranger, and don't mess around with the color > coding of any electrical wiring. And with that I deem this threa

Re: [CentOS] appliance to embed Centos

2010-12-28 Thread Drew
e boards, both Intel & Jetway, is they seem to prefer Realtek chipsets onboard. Jetway I understand because of price points. Intel I don't as the Pro/1000 is a rock solid nic. That said, I've never had a problem with flaky drivers or hardware from Realtek. Maybe I'm just lucky. :-

Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-28 Thread Drew
> The colors do not matter.  What matters is the pairs. And every person who comes after you will curse your work because *both* the colors *and* the pairs are part of the 568A/B standard. In my shop if you tried that you'd be very quickly looking for work elsewhere. ;-) -- Drew &qu

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-23 Thread Drew
as vMotion/vStorage/HA are disabled. Otherwise the host's hardware limits are the same. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-21 Thread Drew
I can confirm the socket/cpu limitation is at least 8, at least on ESXi 3.x. I have an 8 core IBM x445 running on a free license. :-) -- Drew On 12/19/2010, John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/19/10 8:40 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> >> But the ESXi version isn't exactly fair to some

Re: [CentOS] how to install Linux on an IBM xserver 335 server without graphics card?

2010-12-19 Thread Drew
ress of a button switch between the servers. All you need to get access to the console on these units is a C2T Breakout cable. It looks like a custom KVM cable with PS2/VGA ports on one end and a DVI port on the other. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It

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