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kickstart install
by Jerry Geis 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi all, trying to do an install on a ATI radeon 3200 system I am using a kickstart file from 5.2 that works fine in 5.2 First two lines of my post section I do: init 3 chvt 3 This is not happening ? When I try and do a CTRL-ALT-F2 the screen goes black, ALT-F6 to go back has a white screen with the mouse cursor showing busy and the normal background is missing or just not painted. Any ideas? Jerry

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Nice job, 5.3 developers/testers!
by Gilbert Sebenste 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

And everyone involved with this release! I followed the instructions (including removing the two packages, lam and I forget what other one it was now, and updating glibc first), and the update was completely painless. And, with that yum "fastest repo" add-on thingy, wow! I had 2 megaBYTE/sec downloads of the updates to my 6 boxes. Everything was updated in an hour, and I was good to go, and all appears well. You know, I've had more update packages with Fedora 8 after not updating for five days than with this update! I'm guessing 5.2 packages that didn't get updated are par for the course: they still work fine, so they don't get updated (I'm new to this, obviously), or get their file extensions changed when you do an rpm -q (package). Karanbir, you and the entire production/development/testing team, and those upstream, get a "bravo" from me! Centos 5.3 i386...I'm lovin' it. ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** (My opinions only!) ****** *******************************************************************************

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5.2-5.3 Xen upgrade weirdness
by Tom Diehl 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi, Has anyone tried upgrading xen domu's from 5.2 to 5.3? I just did a yum upgrade glibc & yum upgrade yum. All appeared to go well but when I rebooted and tried to connect to the network, I could not. Looking at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts I see that the that there is now an ifcfg-eth0 and an ifcfg-eth0.bak. ifcfg-eth0 now contains configuration for a dynamically configured interface and ifcfg-eth0.bak has the old static config information. In addition, the mac address of the interface has also been changed. I can put everything back but I would like to know if this behavior is deliberate? If so how do I revert whatever is making the changes so that this does not happen. I have software on some of my domu's that requires me to go get new license keys when mac addresses or ip addresses change. So far in my limited testing this only seems to happen on the domu. The dom0 seems to be OK, although I have not yet rebooted it. I did not see anything in the release notes. Regards, -- Tom Diehl tdiehl(a)rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123(a)rogueind.com

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I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors
by Florin Andrei 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

On one mirror that I tried, at least. So, is it live yet? :-) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

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Re: [CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors
by Michael A. Peters 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf >> Of Gilbert Sebenste >> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:44 PM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors >> >> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Florin Andrei wrote: >> >>> On one mirror that I tried, at least. >>> >>> So, is it live yet? :-) >> Almost. Another several more hours before they all sync, and then we're >> good to go. > > Really?? Excellent, you rock guys! > > >> BTW, how does this work? If I want to go from 5.2 to 5.3, can I just >> type "yum upgrade"? If so, what /etc/yum.repos.d entry has to be active >> for that? > > Minor version upgrades (eg 5.2 > 5.3): yum update Not sure it matters but I usually do yum update yum rpm yum clean all yum update I heard elsewhere that there can be problems if you do not update glibc before updating the rest of the OS. I heard that after two of my boxes were already updated the above way and they didn't experience any issues, so maybe it was bogus, but it certainly can't hurt to do yum update glibc first. remote server, be sure to do it inside of screen.

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"Linux aux petits oignons" - Book about Linux, based on CentOS 5.x
by Niki Kovacs 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi, I'm currently busy finishing "Linux aux petits oignons", a practical introduction to Linux, aimed primarily at the frustrated Windows user. This is the first of two volumes, it's written in french, and all examples in the book are based on CentOS. (Note: looks like I'll have to update some screenshots to 5.3 :oD) Usually the first question that arises is: why not base your book on Ubuntu/Fedora/SuSE/whatever? I answer that question in the book, but in short: I'm using Linux professionally, both on server and desktop, and my distro of choice for both is CentOS. It's one of those rare distros where you login and everything Just Works(tm). I'm aware of the few drawbacks (recent hardware, latest version of apps, yadda yadda), but I can live with that. Another thing you will maybe notice: I'm not shy about introducing newbies to the commandline. Usually Linux books for beginners seem more and more GUI-centered, but I'm taking the opposite way, preferring to explain simple and basic UNIX concepts. (The heck if I lose 90% of prospective readers who will rather go off and buy "Simple comme Ubuntu" :oD) Here's the - almost - final version of the manuscript. It will go to the graphist sometime next week. Until then, maybe you're curious and want to take a glimpse: http://www.kikinovak.net/download/LinuxAuxPetitsOignons.pdf http://www.kikinovak.net/download/Captures.tar.gz If you have any comments, suggestions, if you want to point out the odd typo or mistake, feel free to do so. I can take them into account until maybe the end of next week, before the folks in the layout department do their job. One last thing: since this is not the final version, please don't disseminate it too much. Enjoy, Niki Kovacs (a.k.a Kiki Novak)

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ext4 on 5.3
by Jerry Geis 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

grabbed my DVD and did an install. When partitioning the disk I did not see a selection for ext4. Is this enabled after the fact some how? Jerry

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Help setting up multipathing on CentOS 4.7 to an Equallogic iSCSI target
by James Pearson 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

I'm trying to test out an Equallogic PS5500 with a server running CentOS 4.7 I can create a volume and mount it fine using the standard iscsi-initiator-utils tools. The Equallogic box has 3 Gigabit interfaces and I would like to try to set up things so I can read/write from/to the volume using multiple NICs on the server i.e. get 200+ Mbyte/s access to the volume - I've had some basic info from Equallogic (Dell) saying that I need to set up DM multipathing - however, the info I have starts by saying that I have to: "Make sure the host can see multiple devices representing the same target volume" However, I'm not sure how I get to this point i.e. how do I set up the Equallogic and/or server so that I can see a single volume over multiple network links? Has anyone set up one of these Equallogic boxes in this way using CentOS4/RHEL4 ? Thanks James Pearson

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Re: [CentOS] Torrent tracker for CentOS v5.3 working properly? Solved
by Sorin Srbu 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

>-----Original Message----- >From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Sorin Srbu >Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 12:03 PM >To: 'CentOS mailing list' >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Torrent tracker for CentOS v5.3 working properly? > >I just now noticed that the Openoffice3 and a CenOS 5.2 torrent seed/upload >started again. So it seems both upload and download is actually working as >it should. > >The question still stands on why only the one 5.3 download works though. It >*might* be the thing that John R Pierce said previously about some >torrent-clients nedding and using one torrent per port only. In my case >that'd be port 80 I guess. If so, that's a problem with my Azureus-client >and probably not something that should be discussed on this list, unless the >moderators agree this is relevant in sharing the new CentOS-releases over >bittorrent. 8-) Problem seems to have been solved. I downloaded the 32/64b dvd and cd isos using ftp and added them to my bt-client. Now it's uploading like crazy. All is fine.

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How can check Kazaa service
by chloe K 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

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