Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, July 16, 2012 06:59:03 PM Tim Dunphy wrote: Have you tried using the minimal install iso? It will fit on a CD. Bingo! That was it. Thank you list! You guys rock. Always appreciate your advice. Glad that worked! ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-16 Thread Tim Dunphy
hey guys, sorry it took so long to get back to you. But I was finally able to do this. To recap: Are you absolutely sure the install hangs forever? How long is forever? I have noticed too that at the end of the installation, the system seems hung for quite some time on this package (or

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-12 Thread Tim Dunphy
What if you symlink the shared nfs dir to /var/www/html/somedir and try the http protocol? May help? Already tried using http, and got the same result. I don't think, therefore, that the method of install is the problem at all. I think there may be some hardware compatibility problem with that

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, July 12, 2012 05:49:50 AM Tim Dunphy wrote: # Turn off SELinux. selinux --disabled Might want to try that in addition to ripping out the RPMs, tho I'm not sure doing both would be necessary. Maybe it's the CPU that's having a problem with SELinux under CentOS 6? Tim, I

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-12 Thread Lars Hecking
I think SELinux is a red herring in this case; I'm running upstream RHEL Server 6.3 32-bit with SELinux in enforcing mode on an older Supermicro system (motherboard P4DP6, has a DVD-ROM CD-RW drive in it) with the following CPU: The problem with the selinux rpms is that they need

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, July 12, 2012 11:16:23 AM Lars Hecking wrote: I think SELinux is a red herring in this case; I'm running upstream RHEL Server 6.3 32-bit with SELinux in enforcing mode on an older Supermicro system (motherboard P4DP6, has a DVD-ROM CD-RW drive in it) with the following

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-12 Thread Stephen Harris
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 02:04:40PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: On Thursday, July 12, 2012 11:16:23 AM Lars Hecking wrote: The problem with the selinux rpms is that they need copious amounts of RAM during installation. From my experience, a minimum of 0.75 to 1GB. But that's a good data

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-11 Thread Phil Savoie
Hi Tim, What if you symlink the shared nfs dir to /var/www/html/somedir and try the http protocol? May help? Phil On 07/11/2012 02:53 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: Guys, I've been trying to install centos 6.2, then 6.3 onto a supermicro 6013P-8 which does not have a DVD rom drive. Those newer

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-11 Thread Andrew S Reis
Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Phil Savoie Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 6:10 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird Hi Tim, What if you symlink the shared nfs dir to /var/www/html/somedir and try

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-11 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 07/11/2012 02:53 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: Guys, I've been trying to install centos 6.2, then 6.3 onto a supermicro 6013P-8 which does not have a DVD rom drive. Those newer version of CentOS only have DVD (not CD) iso versions so I've been sharing the install via NFS. With each try the

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-11 Thread Keith Roberts
On 07/11/2012 02:53 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: Guys, I've been trying to install centos 6.2, then 6.3 onto a supermicro 6013P-8 which does not have a DVD rom drive. Those newer version of CentOS only have DVD (not CD) iso versions so I've been sharing the install via NFS. With each try the

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-11 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 07/12/2012 07:23 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: In your kickstart file add this line: (this is for 5.x - not tested it on 6.x yet) # Turn off SELinux. selinux --disabled All the CentOS machines I've installed have had selinux set to disabled this way. However, the packet