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mkbootdisk! [SOLVED]
by israel.garcia＠cimex.com.cu 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

First, I thanks you all for your answers. Step by step what I did. 1. Install from CD1 CentOS mkisofs-2.01.1-5.i386.rpm 2. create the file /tmp/2.6.9-5.0.3.EL.iso 3. run mkbootdisk --device /tmp/2.6.9-5.0.3.EL.iso --iso 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL 4. Burn this ISO image to a CD. That's it!! regards, israel

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Milestone
by Robert Moskowitz 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

Well I now have a 4.0 server at a solid checkpoint. Before I start the chore of setting up SAMBA and LDAP. Part of the delay was I did not copy all of the needed DNS files, and I have to reerad the BIND book. So I want to be able to get to this point again easily. I did not note down what options I had selected during install. Is there some way in the install log to figure that out? Is there some way to do an image backup? I only have a Win2000 server available for the backup, no NFS on another system. Appreciate any and all help. Barrs Law of Recursive futility If you're smart enough to use one of these.... .....you can probably manage without one!

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Re: Re: Re: mkbootdisk!
by israel.garcia＠cimex.com.cu 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

On Apr 5, 2005 7:17 AM, israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> <israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> wrote: > > On Mon, April 4, 2005 8:42 pm, israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> said: > > On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 08:55 -0500, israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> wrote: > >> I'm trying to make a bootdisk in my CentOS server and I got this > >> error.. > >> > >> any ideas? > >> > >> > >> [root at server <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>:~]$ rpm -qa kernel kernel-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL > >> [root at server <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>:~]$ mkbootdisk 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL --device > >> /dev/fd0 Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be > >> lost. Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort: > >> cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk.d20227/initrd.img': No space left on device > >> cat: write error: No space left on device > >> cat: write error: No space left on device > >> 20+0 records in > >> 20+0 records out > > > > On Apr 2, 2005 5:23 AM, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> wrote: > > > >>>The kernel and initrd are too big to fit on a floppy ... there is no > >>>option to boot them from floppy any more. > > > > Johnny, If I can not use a floppy any more to boot my server, What can I > > use to > > boot the server in case of a crash? How can I make a CD bootdisk to my > > CentOS > > Server? Is there another way to boot my server? > > > > regards; > > > > Israel > > >>>>You could probably use the first install disk to boot into rescue mode. I > >>>>have done that with CentOS-3 and it worked fine for me. I would imagine > >>>>CentOS-4 would be pretty similar in that respect. > > >>>~Dan > > Dan,....... I know the option "linux rescue mode" works fine, but, my CentOS > servers have a Software RAID (raid 1) installed and I used to make a bootdisk in > case of a RAID failure (or a HDD crash), so, Now I can not make my bootdisk > 'cause the error above...... in this case what can I use to boot my server and > keep my Soft RAID working? > > thanks for all your soon answers > regards, > >>I'm confused. If your raid crashes, what good is a boot floppy (which >>is now totally impossible - the kernel and initrd will not fit on a >>floppy) in the first place? You would be looking at a rebuild of the >>raid and/or a restore from backup, so why not just use the CD in >>resucue mode as recommended? What could a floppy possibly do that the >>CD could not? >>Please advise. Collins, Most of my servers are connected remotely, I migrated from WhiteBox to CentOS linux, I had in every (remote) server a bootdisk (floppy), so in case of a raid crash, some people there booted the server from the bootdisk and then I reconstructed the Raid remotely... I know if I boot from CD rescue mode I can get the same result, but, people in thouse places are not especialized in linux boxes. That is because I want to boot from a floopy, now I also know it's imposible, but, Can I make a CD boot?, I just want something to boot my remote server, get running all services and later I reconstruct the RAID... understand me now? sorry my poor english! regards, israel

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RE: [CentOS] Milestone
by Robert Moskowitz 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

At 09:31 AM 4/5/2005, Andrew Cotter wrote: >Do you have access to a FTP server? If so there is a nice project out >there, G4U, that does a good job of imaging systems. > >Boot from the G4U floppy or CD and pass a command or two...... > >http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ great. I have a simple FTP server for Win32 from 3COM (syslog and tftp also). They supply it for working with their switches and such. thanks!

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RE: [CentOS] yum update dependency problem CentOS 3
by Sean Franklin 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

-----Original Message----- >I did rpm -e librsvg2.. got an error about dup packages, then it seemed to update fine. > >_______________________________________________ > Thank you very much. That worked like a charm. Sean.

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05 Apr '05

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Something is very wrong here
by Mário Gamito 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

Hi, Any ideas ? The server is a PIII with 512 MB RAM. Warm Regards, Mário Gamito [root@tux 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL-i686]# uname -a Linux tux.dte.ua.pt 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL #1 Sat Feb 19 18:26:49 CST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@tux 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL-i686]# --- [root@tux 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL-i686]# pwd /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-5.0.3.EL-i686 [root@tux 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL-i686]# --- [root@tux 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL-i686]# make bzImage CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h /bin/sh: arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s: No such file or directory UPD include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h mv: cannot stat `include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h.tmp': No such file or directory make: *** [include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h] Error 1 [root@tux 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL-i686]# ---

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS for commercial use
by Dave Hornford 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

Collins Richey wrote: >> endeavors justify the decsion - ethics, community vs. vendor support, >> etc., etc. I've heard many comments to the effect that we CentOS users >> are just leaches, since RedHat does the major work. I would like to >> know how those of you who use CentOS in commercial > > Collins, I'm sorry if I am unable to follow the question of ethics here. At what point did Red Hat's efforts in the open source community become magical and change the ethical environment Red Hat lives in for people downstream of Red Hat? Your question pre-supposes that because CentOS is downstream of Red Hat then somehow it is different than Red Hat being downstream of the Linux kernel developers & others (fill in other names as you see fit). Red Hat is downstream of well over 99.99% of the 'major work'. Red Hat has built a business around using freely available software. As part of the licence provided by upstream authors who created, enhanced, and often support the software Red Hat is required to make the software source others created and they use for their business available to others to use as they see fit (within terms of licence). Exactly the same as Red Hat taking the source from upstream and using as they see fit (WTOL). Commercial vs. community support is not an ethical choice. Neither is Red Hat's leveraging the efforts of the community to build a commercial enterprise. The community knowingly provided their efforts to others to do exactly what we, and Red Hat are doing. regards Dave HornfordAssociates.com

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RE: [CentOS] Netatalk ???
by Tracey, Michael 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

Mario, That is correct (at least on 4.0), and the appletalk kernel modules are not built, so you will have to build a custom kernel to use it. Once it the kernel is recompiled and appletalk is compiled, it works like a champ. Netatalk is not hard to compile. Michael Tracey -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]On Behalf Of Mário Gamito Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 11:44 AM To: centos(a)centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Netatalk ??? Hi, Is it from my eyes, or Centos (or for that matters, RHEL) doesn't include netatalk ???? If not, does it bring something else for the same porpous ? Any help would be appreciated. Warm regards, Mário Gamito _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Re: Re: Re: mkbootdisk!
by israel.garcia＠cimex.com.cu 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

On Mon, April 4, 2005 8:42 pm, israel.garcia(a)cimex.com.cu said: > On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 08:55 -0500, israel.garcia(a)cimex.com.cu wrote: >> I'm trying to make a bootdisk in my CentOS server and I got this >> error.. >> >> any ideas? >> >> >> [root@server:~]$ rpm -qa kernel kernel-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL >> [root@server:~]$ mkbootdisk 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL --device >> /dev/fd0 Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be >> lost. Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort: >> cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk.d20227/initrd.img': No space left on device >> cat: write error: No space left on device >> cat: write error: No space left on device >> 20+0 records in >> 20+0 records out > > On Apr 2, 2005 5:23 AM, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists(a)hughesjr.com> wrote: > >>>The kernel and initrd are too big to fit on a floppy ... there is no >>>option to boot them from floppy any more. > > Johnny, If I can not use a floppy any more to boot my server, What can I > use to > boot the server in case of a crash? How can I make a CD bootdisk to my > CentOS > Server? Is there another way to boot my server? > > regards; > > Israel >>>>You could probably use the first install disk to boot into rescue mode. I >>>>have done that with CentOS-3 and it worked fine for me. I would imagine >>>>CentOS-4 would be pretty similar in that respect. >>>~Dan Dan,....... I know the option "linux rescue mode" works fine, but, my CentOS servers have a Software RAID (raid 1) installed and I used to make a bootdisk in case of a RAID failure (or a HDD crash), so, Now I can not make my bootdisk 'cause the error above...... in this case what can I use to boot my server and keep my Soft RAID working? thanks for all your soon answers regards, israel

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