Re: PXE boot is an infinite reinstall

2011-10-18 Thread Sergio Ballestrero
What we (CERN ATLAS Online) do is to have a PXE default config that points back to localboot, and is changed for the specific PC when you want to reinstall. The %postboot of the kickstart then has to contain a call to a CGI (e.g. using wget) that resets the PXE to the default. The same kind of

Re: PXE boot is an infinite reinstall

2011-10-18 Thread Yannick Perret
Steven Timm a écrit : The trick that Rocks uses is to have a boot order of (hard disk, pxe) and then when you want to reinstall, change two bytes in the boot sector to make the hard disk unbootable and it will fall through to a PXE boot only at that time. What worker node installs at Fermilab

Re: PXE boot is an infinite reinstall

2011-10-18 Thread Felip Moll
If you have Dell Servers there is an option that you can change through iDrac interface that is Boot once. You check Boot once with PXE and then reboot the machine. It will boot from PXE only one time so when rebooting will go throught the HD. Regards 2011/10/18 Yannick Perret yper...@in2p3.fr

window manager application to file type association

2011-10-18 Thread Yasha Karant
I know how to change the application associated with (opens) a particular file type finding an instance of the file type, getting to the preferences for that type through the GUI, etc., a very time consuming process. For each window manager (Gnome, KDE, ... ) is there a systems text file,

wxPython - package for SL6

2011-10-18 Thread Larry Linder
Is there a wxPython package for SL6 - I tried to use a EL5 * X86-64 and I get a lot of missing lib's. An upated EL5 for SL5.7? Is there a new wxPython for RH6 ? Thank You Larry Linder

Re: wxPython - package for SL6

2011-10-18 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Larry Linder larry.lin...@micro-controls.com wrote: Is there a wxPython package for SL6 - I tried to use a EL5 * X86-64 and I get a lot of missing lib's.  An upated EL5 for SL5.7? Is there a new wxPython for RH6 ? Looks like it is available from the EPEL

Re: Two suggestions for the installation process

2011-10-18 Thread Connie Sieh
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Yasha Karant wrote: I am in the process of installing SL 6.1 from the install DVD. Two suggestions: 1. A workaround that will allow installation without an Internet connection for those who chose the DVD that contains the necessary RPMs, albeit not necessarily the latest