Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Markus Falb
On 8.4.2011 02:54, Les Mikesell wrote: On 4/7/11 7:28 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: I assume that the lack of a CD drive on the HP micro-server is a sign of things to come, so I would hope there would be an official method of installing CentOS on such a machine. I think

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 7 Apr 2011, at 00:18, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: If anyone can suggest a simpler way of installing CentOS on a machine without a CD drive I should be interested to hear. I keep a USB CD drive to hand for servers without optical drives. Slightly defeatist but much easier; just

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-08 Thread Anton Parol
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-08 Thread Ian Murray
John, please stop cluttering the list with your complaining. It's making a right mess for those of that wish to discuss the project and its direction. Wow. Pot? Kettle? So, let me get this straight. People are able to bitch, whine, complain and needlessly threaten to

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

2011-04-08 Thread Benjamin Hackl
On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:46:01 -0700 John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 04/07/11 10:51 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: Dell typically shipped Adaptec cards; I seem to remember 39160's being shipped in some 1850's I have. That would be more than enough performance for what you want, and they

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

2011-04-08 Thread Cal Sawyer
I like my Atto ExpressPCI UL5D. Supports LUNs 2TB, which iirc, Adaptec still (?) doesn't. - csawyer   -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin Hackl Sent: 08 April 2011 10:31 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
Les Mikesell wrote: I tried dd-ing this to /dev/sdb (the USB stick). [tim@helen dvd]$ sudo cp images/diskboot.img /tmp [tim@helen dvd]$ cd /tmp [tim@helen tmp]$ sudo dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sdb 24576+0 records in 24576+0 records out 12582912 bytes (13 MB) copied, 0.766341 seconds,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Tom Grace
On 08/04/11 11:28, Timothy Murphy wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: I re-formatted the USB stick under Windows, and tried dd-ing diskboot.img to /dev/sdb1 but the outcome was the same. I'll try again, now that I'm sure what you mean. You might also have some luck with unetbootin

[CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

2011-04-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Folks, it has been asked a few times: PLEASE STOP THE 6 UPDATE THREAD now! Developers: please just stop responding to that thread. It's not necessary to defend yourselves over a certain point (that has long been reached). Non-devs: if you think you can make a valuable contribution to centos

Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

2011-04-08 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com wrote: Folks, it has been asked a few times: PLEASE STOP THE 6 UPDATE THREAD now! Developers: please just stop responding to that thread. It's not necessary to defend yourselves over a certain point (that has long been

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-08 Thread Ned Slider
On 08/04/11 03:06, Lucian wrote: On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Jerry Franzjfr...@freerun.com wrote: On 04/07/2011 03:52 PM, Scott Silva wrote: The GPL says they must release source. It doesn't say they have to also release any magic spells they use to compile it. Actually, it *does*. If

Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

2011-04-08 Thread Ian Murray
I'm really tired of this. Ralph: please unsubscribe everyone who can't shut his mouth. Thanks. A lot of of less-vocal people will thank you. Kai ___ Wow Kai, maybe you should suspend the mailing list? At least that

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-08 Thread Ian Murray
As I seem to have started this little subsection of the thread, please let me give just one small example to help clarify the situation as it appears there is still a lot of misunderstanding surrounding this issue. Let's look at kernel modules, kmod packages. They are built against

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
Tom Grace wrote: You might also have some luck with unetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/), might also be in the CentOS repos. Yes, thanks, that was suggested before, and I have noted it as a possibility. But I'd like to get a more CentOS-centred method working, if I can. --

[CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

2011-04-08 Thread Olaf Mueller
Hello CentOS developer team, thank you very much for the release of CentOS 5.6. I have upgraded my server, notebook, netbook and workstation from 5.5 to 5.6 and everything works really fine so far, CentOS 5.6 seems to be rock solid. The only little problem happens on the upgrade of my server,

Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

2011-04-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
STOP IT! Kai ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

2011-04-08 Thread carlopmart
On 04/08/2011 02:37 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: STOP IT! Kai Who are you to say that? The king or master of anything? If you don't like to read about people post, don't read. But I think you are nobody to say what is or not in this mailing list. In all cases, a moderator who has to say. --

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/8/11 5:28 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: It should go to the raw disk device, not a partition and you shouldn't need to format first. The reason I re-formatted it was that fdisk said there was no valid partition table after dd-ing bootdisk.img onto /dev/sdb . I thought small usb devices

Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

2011-04-08 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message From: Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com To: centos@centos.org Sent: Fri, 8 April, 2011 13:37:19 Subject: Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW! STOP IT! Kai If we carry on long enough, Godwin's Law will kick-in and that will be the end of it. I have had

Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

2011-04-08 Thread Alexander Arlt
Am 04/08/2011 02:12 PM, schrieb Ian Murray: I'm really tired of this. Ralph: please unsubscribe everyone who can't shut his mouth. Thanks. A lot of of less-vocal people will thank you. Kai ___ Wow Kai, maybe you should suspend the mailing

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Timothy Murphy wrote on 04/07/2011 08:47 AM: Network Installation from CentOS Live CD will no longer be available. (Why not, as a matter of interest?) Because network installs tend to be problematic for all but those with local repositories or flawless broadband network connections. Having it

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
Markus Falb wrote: Yes, my memory isn't that great, but it is in the install guide: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en- US/ch02s04.html#id3098219 I did try the dd method again, but it didn't work for me. My memory isnt great neither. There is a boot.iso mentioned

Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

2011-04-08 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com wrote: STOP IT! Take a few deep breaths! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Kickstart and lvm

2011-04-08 Thread Lars Hecking
I've written some %pre code to grab a few files off a logical volume, if it exits, before the disk gets formatted, but can't get get it to work correctly. Essentially: %pre ... lvm vgscan lvm vgchange -a y ... if [ -d /dev/vol0 ]; then # do stuff fi lvm vgremove -f vol0 The problem is that

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On 4/8/11 5:28 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: It should go to the raw disk device, not a partition and you shouldn't need to format first. The reason I re-formatted it was that fdisk said there was no valid partition table after dd-ing bootdisk.img onto /dev/sdb . I

Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

2011-04-08 Thread m . roth
Ian Murray wrote: From: Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com STOP IT! If we carry on long enough, Godwin's Law will kick-in and that will be the end of it. I have had to bite my tongue several times! Natzis. Hitler. Tea Party Republicans This thread may now officially be declared dead.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Markus Falb
On 8.4.2011 14:58, Timothy Murphy wrote: Markus Falb wrote: A more manual way to make usb stick bootable is described instead. Maybe you have more luck with that. dd method is not mentioned anymore. Thanks for that. This method did work, although there is an error in the description,

Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

2011-04-08 Thread Mark Perew
Mark- Thank you for taking one for the team. On Apr 8, 2011 9:23 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Ian Murray wrote: From: Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com STOP IT! If we carry on long enough, Godwin's Law will kick-in and that will be the end of it. I have had to bite my tongue

Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

2011-04-08 Thread Gene Brandt
Good bye I've had enough for now. I'll be back, but not until Centos 7 is history. It's FREE deal with it!!! -- Thanks, Gene Brandt SCSA 8625 Carriage Road River Ridge, LA 70123 504-452-3250 Family Web Page | My Web Page | LinkedIn | Facebook | Resumebucket On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 09:30

Re: [CentOS] CentOSPlus kernel (Was: Centos 6 Update?)

2011-04-08 Thread Steve Clark
On 04/07/2011 05:14 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Steve Clarkscl...@netwolves.com wrote: On 04/07/2011 01:18 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: I had a quick look at the patches. The first one seems to be applicable without any modifications. The second one will need an adjustment.

Re: [CentOS] CentOSPlus kernel (Was: Centos 6 Update?)

2011-04-08 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com wrote: On 04/07/2011 05:14 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: I have just installed the kernel and will now start testing. Great. Please keep us posted. If the patches work as expected, they will be a worthy addition to the cplus kernel.

[CentOS] how is binary compatibility determined?

2011-04-08 Thread Keith Keller
Hi all! We've seen quite a few references on the list to 100% binary compatibility with upstream. What I am curious about is, how precisely is this determined? All the ways I can think of for comparing how two systems might work seem flawed in some way (e.g., using some sort of checksum; unit

Re: [CentOS] how is binary compatibility determined?

2011-04-08 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Keith Keller kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us wrote: Hi all! We've seen quite a few references on the list to 100% binary compatibility with upstream.  What I am curious about is, how precisely is this determined?  All the ways I can think of for comparing

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 74, Issue 1

2011-04-08 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] how is binary compatibility determined?

2011-04-08 Thread Mister IT Guru
On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 08:58 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Keith Keller kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us wrote: Hi all! We've seen quite a few references on the list to 100% binary compatibility with upstream. What I am curious about is, how precisely is

Re: [CentOS] CentOSPlus kernel (Was: Centos 6 Update?)

2011-04-08 Thread Steve Clark
On 04/08/2011 11:35 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Steve Clarkscl...@netwolves.com wrote: On 04/07/2011 05:14 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: I have just installed the kernel and will now start testing. Great. Please keep us posted. If the patches work as expected, they will be a

Re: [CentOS] how is binary compatibility determined?

2011-04-08 Thread Markus Falb
On 8.4.2011 18:03, Mister IT Guru wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 08:58 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Keith Keller kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us wrote: Hi all! We've seen quite a few references on the list to 100% binary compatibility with upstream. What I am

Re: [CentOS] how is binary compatibility determined?

2011-04-08 Thread Dvorkin, Asya
Thanks Keith, good question, that should have been on my list of Questions to ask about CentOS building process, and thanks to Akemi for a quick answer :) Given that its answered in a FAQ one could argue that it was not a good question. You know, there is a famous saying.. If you have

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/8/2011 8:15 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: On 4/8/11 5:28 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: It should go to the raw disk device, not a partition and you shouldn't need to format first. The reason I re-formatted it was that fdisk said there was no valid partition table after

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

2011-04-08 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 02:35:30PM +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote: Hello CentOS developer team, thank you very much for the release of CentOS 5.6. I have upgraded my server, notebook, netbook and workstation from 5.5 to 5.6 and everything works really fine so far, CentOS 5.6 seems to be rock

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/8/2011 7:58 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Yes, my memory isn't that great, but it is in the install guide: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en- US/ch02s04.html#id3098219 I did try the dd method again, but it didn't work for me. I still don't understand what is going

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
Les Mikesell wrote: USB disks _can_ have partitions (obviously, since you can stick about any drive into a usb adapter), but small ones typically don't and you don't need them to boot. The bootdisk.img layout appears to be a vfat on the raw disk (no partitioning) with syslinux configure to

[CentOS] /etc/hosts not resolving hostnames

2011-04-08 Thread Johan Martinez
I have modified /etc/hosts file with IP address and hostname entries. However, host command is returning 'Host vhost1.example.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)'. Also, apache is returning error on start as '[error] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: Could not resolve host name vhost1.example.com--

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/8/2011 7:55 AM, Phil Schaffner wrote: Timothy Murphy wrote on 04/07/2011 08:47 AM: Network Installation from CentOS Live CD will no longer be available. (Why not, as a matter of interest?) Because network installs tend to be problematic for all but those with local repositories or

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts not resolving hostnames

2011-04-08 Thread m . roth
Johan Martinez wrote: I have modified /etc/hosts file with IP address and hostname entries. However, host command is returning 'Host vhost1.example.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)'. Also, apache is returning error on start as '[error] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: Could not resolve host name

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
Phil Schaffner wrote: Because network installs tend to be problematic for all but those with local repositories or flawless broadband network connections. Having it present was raising unrealistic expectations of netinstall as a viable option, and resulting in bad first experiences with

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts not resolving hostnames

2011-04-08 Thread Johan Martinez
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:27 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Johan Martinez wrote: I have modified /etc/hosts file with IP address and hostname entries. However, host command is returning 'Host vhost1.example.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)'. Also, apache is returning error on start as '[error] (EAI

[CentOS] Exception error with 5.5 installation

2011-04-08 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Hi there -- I am trying to install the 64-bit version onto one of our servers. When I get to the point of loading various software packages, I normally select KDE desktop, and also make sure that CentOS extras is also selected. Once that is done, I click on Next to have the installation

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
Markus Falb wrote: Maybe you have more luck with that. dd method is not mentioned anymore. Thanks for that. This method did work, although there is an error in the description, which slightly confused me. You could file a bug in Upstream Vendors bugzilla ;-) I'll try that, though I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/8/2011 1:22 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: USB disks _can_ have partitions (obviously, since you can stick about any drive into a usb adapter), but small ones typically don't and you don't need them to boot. The bootdisk.img layout appears to be a vfat on the raw disk (no partitioning) with

Re: [CentOS] how is binary compatibility determined?

2011-04-08 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Dvorkin, Asya dvork...@umdnj.edu wrote: Thanks Keith, good question, that should have been on my list of Questions to ask about CentOS building process, and thanks to Akemi for a quick answer :) Given that its answered in a FAQ one could argue that it was not

[CentOS] iptables package issue

2011-04-08 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I just did a test install off a netinstall iso to a mirror repo which left no /etc/sysconfig/iptables file in place. So a quick check: # yum whatprovides /etc/sysconfig/iptables --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=base --enablerepo=updates --disableplugin=\* No Matches found Without that file

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts not resolving hostnames

2011-04-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/08/11 11:24 AM, Johan Martinez wrote: I have modified /etc/hosts file with IP address and hostname entries. However, host command is returning 'Host vhost1.example.com http://vhost1.example.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)'. Also, apache is returning error on start as '[error] (EAI 2)Name

Re: [CentOS] Exception error with 5.5 installation

2011-04-08 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Kaplan, Andrew H. ahkap...@partners.org wrote: Hi there -- I am trying to install the 64-bit version onto one of our servers. When I get to the point of loading various software packages, I normally select KDE desktop, and also make sure that CentOS extras

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

2011-04-08 Thread Olaf Mueller
fred smith wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 02:35:30PM +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote: I am grateful for the CentOS Project. I like it's stability and long-term support. I haven't seen a 5.6 release announcement yet. Have I missed it? I did not use the word announce in my post. I do not know what

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts not resolving hostnames

2011-04-08 Thread Johan Martinez
This is working fine on another CentOS system. This particular install where host command is failing is trimmed down install using kickstart file. It is working on a system where install is default 'Server non-GUI', option given during interactive CD install. I guess this has to do with some

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts not resolving hostnames

2011-04-08 Thread Dvorkin, Asya
Try flushing DNS cache: /etc/init.d/nscd restart On Apr 8, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Johan Martinez wrote: This is working fine on another CentOS system. This particular install where host command is failing is trimmed down install using kickstart file. It is working on a system where install is

Re: [CentOS] Exception error with 5.5 installation

2011-04-08 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Hi there -- Thanks for the reply. I am doing the install as we speak without issue. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Akemi Yagi Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 3:24 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Exception

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts not resolving hostnames

2011-04-08 Thread Johan Martinez
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Dvorkin, Asya dvork...@umdnj.edu wrote: Try flushing DNS cache: /etc/init.d/nscd restart nscd is not running. On Apr 8, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Johan Martinez wrote: This is working fine on another CentOS system. This particular install where host command is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread William Hooper
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Phil Schaffner wrote: Because network installs tend to be problematic for all but those with local repositories or flawless broadband network connections.  Having it present was raising unrealistic expectations of

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

2011-04-08 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 4/8/2011 3:25 PM, Olaf Mueller wrote: fred smith wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 02:35:30PM +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote: I am grateful for the CentOS Project. I like it's stability and long-term support. I haven't seen a 5.6 release announcement yet. Have I missed it? I did not use the word

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

2011-04-08 Thread William Hooper
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Olaf Mueller daily-pla...@istari.de wrote: fred smith wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 02:35:30PM +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote: I am grateful for the CentOS Project. I like it's stability and long-term support. I haven't seen a 5.6 release announcement yet. Have I

Re: [CentOS] iptables package issue

2011-04-08 Thread Ned Slider
On 08/04/11 19:49, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I just did a test install off a netinstall iso to a mirror repo which left no /etc/sysconfig/iptables file in place. So a quick check: # yum whatprovides /etc/sysconfig/iptables --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=base --enablerepo=updates

Re: [CentOS] iptables package issue

2011-04-08 Thread Ned Slider
On 08/04/11 20:56, Ned Slider wrote: On 08/04/11 19:49, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I just did a test install off a netinstall iso to a mirror repo which left no /etc/sysconfig/iptables file in place. So a quick check: # yum whatprovides /etc/sysconfig/iptables --disablerepo=\*

Re: [CentOS] iptables package issue

2011-04-08 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 4/8/2011 4:00 PM, Ned Slider wrote: On 08/04/11 20:56, Ned Slider wrote: On 08/04/11 19:49, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I just did a test install off a netinstall iso to a mirror repo which left no /etc/sysconfig/iptables file in place. So a quick check: # yum whatprovides

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, April 08, 2011 02:22:47 PM Timothy Murphy wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: USB disks _can_ have partitions (obviously, since you can stick about any drive into a usb adapter), The instructions in http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en- US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installation_Guide/

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread m . roth
William Hooper wrote: On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Phil Schaffner wrote: snip The issues you saw with grub being installed on the USB stick instead of the HDD are a bigger concern in my book. I wonder if you you have better luck installing GRUB on

Re: [CentOS] iptables package issue

2011-04-08 Thread Joseph L. Casale
And since that file contains the rules list for iptables, it doesn't make sense for iptables to run without it. Basically, if you want to run iptables, you need to define some rules first. Either create the file by hand and then start iptables, or create the rules in iptables and use service

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Les Mikesell wrote on 04/08/2011 02:27 PM: None of that applies to NFS installs against locally downloaded isos - which is the fastest/easiest approach to a full set of install choices unless it is your first machine and you don't have anything to act as the server. Agreed. In my mind that

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/8/2011 3:19 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: None of that applies to NFS installs against locally downloaded isos - which is the fastest/easiest approach to a full set of install choices unless it is your first machine and you don't have anything to act as the server. Agreed. In my mind that

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
William Hooper wrote on 04/08/2011 03:50 PM: Forgive me if I've missed it mentioned, but it looks like the option is only being removed from the LiveCD. Using the netinstall.iso is still available and would be a more efficient way of doing network installs anyway (9.5M vs 685M). Precisely.

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts not resolving hostnames

2011-04-08 Thread Robert Spangler
On Friday 08 April 2011 14:32, the following was written: On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:27 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Johan Martinez wrote: I have modified /etc/hosts file with IP address and hostname entries. However, host command is returning 'Host vhost1.example.com not found:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Les Mikesell wrote on 04/08/2011 04:29 PM: Why force people to burn two disks when they would only need one? You are welcome to debate that with the LiveCD maintainer, or to roll your own version including the option, but as a guy who has spent a lot of time answering the newbies on the forum

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote on 04/08/2011 04:10 PM: .. What you have to do is tell it no bootloader, then before you reboot at the end of the install, usef-2 or whatever to get to another screen, then... lessee, I forget if it's mounted the install as /mnt/sysimage or not, but mount your /boot on

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/8/2011 3:35 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: Les Mikesell wrote on 04/08/2011 04:29 PM: Why force people to burn two disks when they would only need one? You are welcome to debate that with the LiveCD maintainer, or to roll your own version including the option, but as a guy who has spent a

Re: [CentOS] Exception error with 5.5 installation

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote on 04/08/2011 02:32 PM: I am trying to install the 64-bit version onto one of our servers. When I get to the point of loading various software packages, I normally select KDE desktop, and also make sure that CentOS extras is also selected. Once that is done, I click on

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts not resolving hostnames

2011-04-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Johan Martinez wrote on Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:31:32 -0500: This is working fine on another CentOS system. It doesn't matter if it works fine. The host command indeed does dns lookups as John Pierce already pointed out and apache does, too. With your experience level I suggest believing him. It's

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread m . roth
Phil Schaffner wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote on 04/08/2011 04:10 PM: .. What you have to do is tell it no bootloader, then before you reboot at the end of the install, usef-2 or whatever to get to another screen, then... lessee, I forget if it's mounted the install as /mnt/sysimage or not,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote on 04/08/2011 04:56 PM: In a standard install? I'll look, but don't remember that option. It is present, but easy to overlook. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] large memory usage by perl .so modules?

2011-04-08 Thread E R
Under Centos 5.5 on an x86_64 box I am seeing large memory usage associated with perl .so modules. Example: this script: #!/usr/bin/perl use Time::HiRes; open(SMAPS, /proc/$$/smaps); while (SMAPS) { if (m/^\d/) { chomp($lib = (split(' ', $_))[5]); } elsif (m/^Size:\s*(\d+.*)/) { my

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Olaf Mueller wrote on 04/08/2011 08:35 AM: ... The only little problem happens on the upgrade of my server, since my web server doesn't start after reboot. But this was easy to fix since this error was known from the RHEL 5.6 upgrade. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=669963 You

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, April 08, 2011 04:42:59 PM Les Mikesell wrote: Did anyone tell them how easy an nfs install is? That makes the assumption that there is an nfs server available. We certainly don't do nfs here. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

2011-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/8/2011 4:22 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: Olaf Mueller wrote on 04/08/2011 08:35 AM: ... The only little problem happens on the upgrade of my server, since my web server doesn't start after reboot. But this was easy to fix since this error was known from the RHEL 5.6 upgrade.

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Schaffner
Les Mikesell wrote on 04/08/2011 05:33 PM: Is there some way for yum to know about that? Only if it errors out on a bad package. There have been (to my knowledge) two different types of errors. One was a truncated package on the mirrors that was damaged in transit from the build system. The

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/8/2011 4:26 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Friday, April 08, 2011 04:42:59 PM Les Mikesell wrote: Did anyone tell them how easy an nfs install is? That makes the assumption that there is an nfs server available. We certainly don't do nfs here. If this isn't your first install, you are a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, April 08, 2011 05:43:03 PM Les Mikesell wrote: On 4/8/2011 4:26 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: That makes the assumption that there is an nfs server available. We certainly don't do nfs here. If this isn't your first install, you are a couple of commands away from having one.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/8/2011 4:48 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: That makes the assumption that there is an nfs server available. We certainly don't do nfs here. If this isn't your first install, you are a couple of commands away from having one. Faster/easier than burning yet another iso or 7. That makes the

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

2011-04-08 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 09:25:00PM +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote: fred smith wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 02:35:30PM +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote: I am grateful for the CentOS Project. I like it's stability and long-term support. I haven't seen a 5.6 release announcement yet. Have I missed

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

2011-04-08 Thread Olaf Mueller
fred smith wrote: Clearly you found my comment to be offensive. It certainly was not meant that way. It was simply a friendly warning that depending on a pre-announcement set of files may not give you the final product. Ok, I get the point now. Sorry Fred, my reaction was not appropriate. You

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

2011-04-08 Thread Olaf Mueller
William Hooper wrote: An this was posted to the CentOS twitter account yesterday 4/7 (shortly after having to re-issue the x86_64 ISOs): http://twitter.com/CentOS/status/55950095505567745 Just want to also point out that CentOS-5.6 is *not* released. And packages, ISOS are liable to

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-5.6 i386 and x86_64

2011-04-08 Thread aly . khimji
Amazing!! Great work!! Thank you Aly Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] CentOS 5.6 updated packages - what about subversion?

2011-04-08 Thread Greg Bailey
I see the following in the CentOS 5.6 Release Notes: 6.3. Packages that have been upgraded in 5.6 since the 5.5 release * python-2.4.3-27.el5_5.3 Wouldn't subversion also be listed? CentOS 5.5 has subversion-1.4.2-4.el5_3.1 CentOS 5.6 has subversion-1.6.11-7.el5 Is this list

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
Lamar Owen wrote: USB disks _can_ have partitions (obviously, since you can stick about any drive into a usb adapter), The instructions in http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en- US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installation_Guide/ certainly advise making a partition /dev/sdb1 with partition

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
Les Mikesell wrote: That makes the assumption that there is an nfs server available. We certainly don't do nfs here. If this isn't your first install, you are a couple of commands away from having one. Faster/easier than burning yet another iso or 7. That makes the assumption I haven't

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
Les Mikesell wrote: I did try the dd method again, but it didn't work for me. I still don't understand what is going wrong for you. I just went through these motions: download the bootdisk.img file from: http://mirror.highspeedweb.net/CentOS/5.5/os/i386/images/ then dd

[CentOS] PCI-X/PCIe RAID controller.

2011-04-08 Thread Drew
Afternoon, I've got an old Dell PERC 4DC (PCI 64bit/33MHz) sitting in my home rig and with a new board on the way that has PCI-X (133) and PCIe (x4) slots, I was wondering what people would recommend for a cheap hardware parallel SCSI RAID controller (no fake raid please) that is relatively cheap

[CentOS] 5.6 is out, great my first upgrade didn't work...

2011-04-08 Thread Nicolas Ross
5.6 is out. That is good news. I did a yum update on one of my non-critical server, and the server stoped responding to ping after the reboot, and never answered back. It's now been 10 minutes, so I'll have to take a ride to the colo... Nice work dev team, keep up the good work. Let's hope

Re: [CentOS] 5.6 is out, great my first upgrade didn't work...

2011-04-08 Thread Gilbert Sebenste
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Nicolas Ross wrote: 5.6 is out. That is good news. I did a yum update on one of my non-critical server, and the server stoped responding to ping after the reboot, and never answered back. It's now been 10 minutes, so I'll have to take a ride to the colo... Nice work dev

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
Phil Schaffner wrote: You are welcome to debate that with the LiveCD maintainer, or to roll your own version including the option, but as a guy who has spent a lot of time answering the newbies on the forum who got tripped up by it, I fully support the decision. If you feel that, why not

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

2011-04-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/08/11 5:12 PM, Drew wrote: Afternoon, I've got an old Dell PERC 4DC (PCI 64bit/33MHz) sitting in my home rig and with a new board on the way that has PCI-X (133) and PCIe (x4) slots, I was wondering what people would recommend for a cheap hardware parallel SCSI RAID controller (no fake

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