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Video card suggestions
by Jerry Geis 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

I am looking for a video card (preferably nvidia) that will do 1920x1080p (that is p not i). I need 1920x1080p, AGP 8x, DVI ----------------------- history is below: I prefered nvidia as they have a decent method of driver updates. I presently have the FX5200. It actually works at 1920x1080p but the nv driver locks up. I downloaded the nvidia drivers and they will not run at 1920x1080p. I then purchased another card the MX4000 the specs said it would do more than 1920x1080 but the FINE print said in DVI mode it only does 1600x1200. All the cards I find say 1920x1080i. I tried a P650 also from Matrox but I could not get the drivers to work at all on linux. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jerry

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Dag - Victim of burglary
by Karanbir Singh 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

Last thursday ( Feb 2nd ) Dag's place was broken into a significant amount of hardware was taken, along with other valuables. You can see the details posted by Dag at http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/freshrpms-list/2006-February/013868.ht… We all know the excellent work he has done for the entire linux community over the years, and specifically his continued support for the CentOS project. If at any stage you were considering donating or helping out in anyway, now is the time - I am sure he will appreciate all the help he can get. - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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network trouble with asus P5LD2-VM board
by David M. Shirley 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

I am trying to install centos 4.2 on an Asus P5LD2-VM and cannot for the life of me get networking to work. The installer does not see the onboard Gbit ethernet port nor can I configure at after installation. It gives no errors when I modprobe e1000 to insert the drivers but I cannot "ifup eth0" without getting a "device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization." error message. (yes I have the ifcfg-eth0 file set up properly) What am I missing? TIA David

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RE: [CentOS] Booting centos from a windows ris server - SOLVED
by Plant, Dean 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

Will McDonald wrote: > On 01/02/06, Plant, Dean <dean.plant(a)roke.co.uk> wrote: >> We are thinking of using pxe boot with a windows ris server to start >> off a Centos 4 install. Does anyone know if this is possible? > > I've never done it myself but turned up a few links a few weeks back > which imply it's feasible... > > http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php > Thanks for the link. This lead me to http://syslinux.zytor.com/ris.php which explained what we needed to do. Here's a quick summary of actions to add Centos PXE installs to an existing windoze ris server. Create the following folder structure on RIS Server: RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Tools\PXELinux\i386\templates\ RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Tools\PXELinux\i386\templates\pxelinux.cfg\ >From the Centos images directory, extract contents of 'diskboot.img' into the templates folder. Rename 'syslinux.cfg' to 'default' and move to ..\templates\pxelinux.cfg\ (edit the default file to include your site configuration/ks file) Copy /usr/lib/syslinux/pxelinux.0 from Centos 4.2 and move to ..\templates\ Create 'pxelinux.sif' in ..\templates\ Example 'pxelinux.sif' below: ----------- [OSChooser] Description="Linux Install - Centos 4" Help="Automatically installs Centos 4." LaunchFile = "Setup\English\Tools\PXELinux\i386\templates\pxelinux.0" ImageType =Flat Version="5.2 (0)" Restart ris. The Centos install option will be in the "Maintenance and Trouble Shooting" menu as default. Dean

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Occasional faults - CentOS server running subversion
by David Fletcher 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

Dear All, I've got a small server at work, built from a Via Epia SP 8000E mini-ITX motherboard and a Seagate SATA hard drive. The application of this server is to provide versioned file storage, using subversion. I'm running CentOS, with Apache 2 and SSL to provide controlled access to the subversion repositories. There have been two problems with this machine:- Problem 1 Every once in a while one of the repositories gets corrupted, which produces an error when attempting to use it with tortoisesvn or svn from another Linux box. I then have to go in as root on ssh and do svnadmin recover followed by chown -R apache:apache just to be sure, then it works again. Problem 2 The server had been running continually for maybe 70 days without problems apart from problem 1. A couple of weeks ago there was a kernel update. I rebooted the machine to run the new kernel in case it included security fixes, and at 23:00 on Thursday night it died. When I came in on Friday morning it was sat there with the hard drive permanently lit and not responding. I had to push the reset button to get it going again. /var/log/messages entries from this incident follow:- Feb 2 21:01:01 localhost crond(pam_unix)[1399]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Feb 2 21:01:01 localhost crond(pam_unix)[1399]: session closed for user root Feb 2 22:01:01 localhost crond(pam_unix)[1403]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Feb 2 22:01:01 localhost crond(pam_unix)[1403]: session closed for user root Feb 2 23:00:01 localhost crond(pam_unix)[1407]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Feb 3 09:10:02 localhost syslogd 1.4.1: restart. Feb 3 09:10:02 localhost syslog: syslogd startup succeeded At 23:00 on Thursday crond would have been running a bash script to do a daily dump of the repositories. BTW the server is supplied by an APC UPS so there should be no issues with mains power supply problems. As I'm not running on Intel hardware, does anybody know of any issues with running CentOS on Via motherboards with Eden processors? Thanks. Dave Fletcher

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works best with centos 4+? CPanel or Plesk?
by Dustin Krysak 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

Hi there i was wondering if anyone on this list has any comments on CPanel vs Plesk on Centos 4+? Looking for the one that best work with the "out of the box" RPMs for Centos. Thanks in advance! Dustin

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[ANN] Footprint - kickstart management tool
by Dag Wieers 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

Hi, I'm planning to create a new tool to simplify creation and management of kickstart-files (as well as automate some of the tasks that come with automated installation). If you know of another mailinglist that fits this subject, or you know of similar projects (because I can imagine there are countless implementations inside companies) please let me know. I'm just in the design phase and i'm interested in what already exists and how it was implemented (the structure/interface/features). Let me first explain what I aim for (and how it is currently in my head). First of all, it should be straight-forward to manage a list of systems (or groups of systems) that have similar configurations. A config-file could be something like: /etc/footprint/system/proxy-servers.conf [main] boot options = panic=10 acpi=off dist = rhel4as #modules = e100 profile = proxy-servers [proxy01] ip = 10.0.0.1 netmask = 255.255.255.0 mac address = 00:01:02:03:004:05 ... (or even more simple, only hold 1 system) There would be a collection of profiles, each specifying a set of variables that influence the kickstart file. This could be hardware-related or functional. And a directory-structure for different methods, like LVM setup for rhel3as, rhel4as for different disk configurations, or a debug-method (to ease development), or a method that sets up callback and log functionality (to follow progress from remote), lots of things are possible here to extend anaconda. The tool would then be able to construct a working kickstart file, depending on the combination of profiles/variables it could generate a custom initial ramdisk, use another kernel, create the PXE and DHCP configuration, or make a floppy or ISO file used for custom hardware booting. Also, it would be nice to have a script in Apache that is able to (based on the IP address or mac address) to generate the correct kickstart file (and automatically save/timestamp it for debug/management purposes). In the end, the command-line tool (based on the config files) would automatically control DHCP/PXE, all the files that make remote booting possible and the management (and revisions) of kickstart files. And that's how I got the name, what is left after a good kickstart ? A footprint :) The aim is to integrate it to work with Yam, so that setting this up becomes very easy. And custom packages and updates are merged with the default packagelist so you don't have to do customisations afterwards. Additionally, I'd like to have methods for doing extra configuration tweaks (like populating hosts files, dropping SSH keys, configuring user management and much much more). For all these things I can use help and ideas, so let me know what additional features you have in mind. Discussions go onto the rpmforge tools mailinglist: http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/tools And I have a non-functional website at: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/footprint/ (required for registering the freshmeat project) Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]

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ftp access directory
by Andrew Rice 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

using vsftpd, I know its possible to specify what directory you want a user to be dropped into when he ftps in...but I dont remember where to go to change that. any suggestions? -- Andrew Rice Jr

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How to add System V Filesystem to Centos?
by Mace Eliason 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

Hi, I am working on a project where I have to move some parts files from an old Unix server. I have tared the files to floppy disc, but I can't mount them. After doing some reasearch I have found that the SCO Unix ver 3.2 uses a System V filesystem I think. From the article that I have read I need to add this filesystem to my kernel to be able to mount and read the floppy discs. Can anyone help me with this I have never recomipled my kernel before. Then I should be able to use # mount -t sysv /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy I have found in the .config file under misc filesystems that I can turn on sysv filesytem. I am not sure what to do after that. Is it better to make it a module or to compileit into the kernel? kernel CONFIG_SYSV_FS=y as a modual CONFIG_SYSV_FS=m If I go the modual way where do I find the modual? I would use modprobe to install it right? What commands do you run to recompile the kernel? Do I run make menuconfig? I have been reading alot but not finding what I need. I have a fresh install off Centos 4.2 just for this purpose so if I mess it up that s okay I will start again. I am sure this is so simple once you have done it once. Thanks Scandog

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Install from USB Pendrive
by Chris Hammond 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

I would like to take a USB pen drive and make it CentOS 4.2 install cdrom 1. I have found the boot image for USB drives or floppies but I want to make my pen drive Install CD 1. I have looked around and the closest thing I have found is a how to for Debian but I can't seem to figure out how to adapt it to what I want to do. Any help or links would be much appreciated. Thanks Chris

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