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Newbie
by Abilash Praveen M 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

heya, i'm a newbie to Linux itself and I've chosen CENTOS. It took me around 6 hours to find a CentOS4 cd..lol. I've got my server up and running now (but took me 4 whole days..lol again). Alright, I might need your help... so.. good luck y'all. lata

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Integrating a Raid Driver
by Edward Diener 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

It appears that CentOS is having problems with my hard disks, which I have off of an HPT 374 Raid controller but with no Raid stripes created, ie. I am just using it as an IDE controller. There is the latest Linux open source for the HPT 374 on Highpoint's web site, which I have downladed. While I understand 'make' and am a programmer myself, I understand nothing about the Linux kernel or device drivers. My questions are: 1) How can I tell if and what support CentOS 4.1 and the 2.6 kernel has for the HPT 374 ? 2) How do I install the kernel source package and building tools as the instructions tell me to do ? 3) Anybody know what "cross-controller RAID" means ? There is a Make option for turning it on. 4) Once the driver is loaded by using 'insmod', is it automatically loaded each time I boot the system ? 5) Is there a good source, Internet or books, for these questions ? I do not feel great about fiddling with the kernel and drivers but CentOS 4.1 does not work well with my hard disks and I am hoping by updating the system it will again.

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RE: [CentOS] Re: Install Trouble
by Todd Reed 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

I actually tried the torrent files very first...faster download! I finally figured it out. I finally tried a new CD drive. It's working. Apparently, the old drive and drive I tried were both bad. It still doesn't make sense that it wouldn't work in the other system. I guess that will be another day, though! Thanks for all that responded. --Todd -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Greg Knaddison Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 12:10 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Re: Install Trouble Can you use bittorrent to download the files? It provides a hash-check of the file as part of the transfer so you can be more certain that the download is correct. The other question is that your burner might be doing something weird. It is certainly very strange that the disks work fine in VMWare, but the rest of the clues point to a bad disk. Regards, Greg _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Install Trouble
by Todd Reed 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

I've download the 4 CD ISO images from 3 different mirrors, tried burning the ISO's on different computers, and I still get the same errors. When I go to boot up with the CD1, I eventually get a Call Trace and then a kernel panic: not syncing: fatal exception in interrupt. It points to the CDROM or the CD itself. I can boot up with Knoppix and Mepis fine. The other odd thing is that these same CD's will boot up fine in VM Ware. The last odd thing is that I've got a system running CentOS. For grins and giggles, I booted up with the CD's on it and I got the same error. I do get the very first boot: screen where I hit <enter> after that, it bombs out after it detects and loads some other items. It never gets to the Check Media screen I can't tell if I'm dealing with a hardware problem or if it's a problem with the ISO's. Nothing makes sense! Any help is appreciated.

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Command for physical (hard) disk information
by Truejack 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Hi Folks, How can I get the hard disk information like, its serial number, description ...through a command that like the kind of information we get on Solaris thro' 'iostat -En'. Thanks for any help,

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The role of /.autorelabel
by Todd Cary 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

I could not get vsftpd to start; kept getting the "vsftpd Dead Subsys Locked" error. On doing a Google search, I came across a fix (lost the site unfortunately) and as I recall, it has something to do with copying a file and having the incorrect SElinux settings (I have SElinux disabled). The fix was to do a fixfiles, relabel (commands that I have never used) or a touch of "/.autorelabel" and rebooting. It worked, but I have no idea of what I did (my lack of in depth knowledge of Linux). Todd ** -- Ariste Software 200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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Re: [CentOS] mkfs.ext3 on a 9TB volume
by Brian T. Brunner 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Agreed: If ANYBODY knows an info-to-man method please post. Second-runner-up: info-to-html would work (html is what info tries to emulate in text-only mode...) Brian Brunner brian.t.brunner(a)gai-tronics.com (610)796-5838 >>> wam(a)HiWAAY.net 09/13/05 10:35AM >>> Brian T. Brunner wrote: >Add to your soap-box: the standard 'man' is disregarded, you are left to use (non-standard) info. I have tried to find tools to convert info pages to man, but no luck. I *think* there are tex-to-man tools, but the tex data (from which info documents normally come) isn't always installed .... The combination of man & less is about the best text-based info system I could dream up. Oh well .... -- William A. Mahaffey III --------------------------------------------------------------------- Remember, ignorance is bliss, but willful ignorance is LIBERALISM !!!! ******************************************************************* This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. www.hubbell.com - Hubbell Incorporated

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Re: [CentOS] mkfs.ext3 on a 9TB volume
by Brian T. Brunner 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Add to your soap-box: the standard 'man' is disregarded, you are left to use (non-standard) info. There's a man -k call, I haven't found an info -k equivalent. Yes, there's a great calling for thankless man page writing in the *nix world. Brian Brunner brian.t.brunner(a)gai-tronics.com (610)796-5838 >>> wam(a)HiWAAY.net 09/13/05 08:24AM >>> Chris Mauritz wrote: <snip> > > Perhaps I'm just extremely lucky, but I've not run into this magic 1TB > barrier that I see bandied about here. Heck, if you're willing to > roll the dice on Hitachi drives, you can get a terabyte these days > with just 2 hard disks in the array with RAID0 or 3 disks with RAID5. > Unfortunately, a lot of the documentation and FAQs are quite out of > date which can lead to some confusion. Grrrrrrrrrrr, 1 of my *long time* complaints w/ Linux (any Linux, apparently) is that nobody bothers to keep man-pages/FAQS/other-documentation up to date. The cron(8) on my SuSE 9.2 P4 is dated 1996 (!!!). I lay this at the feet of the distro folks myself, but none of them have taken it up :-) .... -- William A. Mahaffey III --------------------------------------------------------------------- Remember, ignorance is bliss, but willful ignorance is LIBERALISM !!!! _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ******************************************************************* This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. www.hubbell.com - Hubbell Incorporated

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New to the list and one quick question
by cajun 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Hi all, Let me start off with a little back ground. I am running right now RH9 fully updated on a Dell PowerEdge 1600SC with 512megs of Ram, 18G SCSI HD. I run this at home so this is no critical server, unless you ask my girls when I have it down, I have been debating on upgrading to Fedora until I started looking at CentOS. I have download the ISO and burned them with X-CD-Roast. Here is my question: I tried running the mediacheck on the cd's and it would lock up right before the media check screen appears. I have googled and tried the ide=nodma and other options, but to still no avial. I also ran memtest86, now here is where the kicker is. It did show there was some errors, and these I will check out. But I then got a wild idea and pulled out my 1st CD of RH9, dropped it into the CD drive and at the boot prompt ran media check. RH9 disk 1 checked out fine, so I dropped in the CentOS disk 1 and ran it. It checked out fine and so did all the rest of them. Is this a vaild test?? Or am I just blowing in the wind here?? Thanks for any input into this matter!! Lee Perez Still learning!!!

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OT: setting up a bridge
by carlopmart＠gmail.com 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

hi all, I am using centos3.5 for my firewall home. I would like to do some tests with bridge firewalling. When i try to create the bridge, brctl givtes me this error: br_add_bridge: Package not installed. i find some answers about this error, but the most important is the one that says driver is not loaded into kernel. In my /boot/config-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL file appears compiled as a module, but how can i load it with modprobe?? .... :(( Thanky you -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

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