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

[CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-11 Thread Tim Dunphy
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 install hangs forever installing

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