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CentOS 4 (RC1) and VMWare
by Bart Schaefer 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

I successfully installed CentOS 4 (RC1) on a VMWare 4.5.2 virtual workstation last night. When creating the new virual machine, I told the VMWare wizard that I'd be installing RHEL3. I used the VMWare console to point the virtual CDROM drive at each of the downloaded ISO images as needed. The "time remaining" feedback while Anaconda ran was wildly inaccurate, but the whole process required only about 45 minutes (the host machine is a 2.8GHz P4 with 1.5GB RAM, I allocated 512MB RAM to the guest). At one point (during installing the pci utilities RPM) the installer seemed to be hung, but I suspended and resumed the guest workstation and that woke everything up again. On the first reboot, the setup wizard asked me to install the disk that was labeled Extras. I don't know which of the 5 ISO images that is, and couldn't find that info on the CentOS web site, so I skipped that step. However, that screen still makes reference to other disks that may have been obtained from Red Hat -- probably needs to be cleaned up. Also the wizard wanted me to register my RHN subscription, which I simply told it not to do. I then logged in and attempted to install the VMWare tools. This (expectedly) did not go entirely smoothly. The app launced from the CDROM icon on the desktop was unable to mount the tools virtual disk, and "mount" from a shell or non-X11 virtual console didn't work either. I had to select "Install ..." from the VMWare menu, then reboot in single user mode to avoid X11 startup, then mount the disk. After running the installer perl script, most of the tools work, but for X11 in particular I had to manually revert the /usr/X11R6/bin/X symlink to point back at Xorg, and restore the /etc/XF86Config file from /etc/X11R6/xorg.conf -- I then merged in the VMWare screen definitions from the XF86Config file written by the tools installer. Because I'm not using the vmware X server, the mouse does not move seamlessly on and off the vmware guest window; you have to manually grab/ungrab the pointer. Otherwise, though, xorg-x11 works just fine.

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trouble installing CentOS
by Tom Scott 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

greetings, We are a couple of new CentOS users here. We have previous experience with RH and FC installations. Now we'd like to move up in the world to CentOS. We successfully installed the 3-CD set of CentOS-3 on a laptop this weekend. When the script instructed us to remove the installation media and reboot, we did that and then the system hung after text was displayed showing the stopping and restarting of the processes. (Background: We had to use the nofb option during the installation. I wonder if there's some way to pass that option to the kernel when we reboot, so as to get the final post-installation configuration script to work?) We think we might have a functional CentOS laptop now, but it's just hanging somewhere in the reboot sequence because of problems with the framebuffer and/or X. Has anyone had a problem like this before? (and solved it? :-) ) -- TIA, TT

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Lessons Learned from LinuxWorld Expo
by Matt Shields 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

I have just published a article (http://masnetworks.biz/node/20) about exhibiting at LinuxWorld Expo and the lessons learned. I heard some talk about some interest in doing the San Fran show. Please feel free to contact me for any suggestions, help, CD's & DVD's etc. -- Matt Shields http://masnetworks.biz http://sexydates4u.com http://shieldslinux.com http://shieldsmedia.com (currently under construction) http://shieldsproductions.com (currently under construction)

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CentOS-4 RC1 (i386) Bugfixes
by Johnny Hughes 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

All, There are 3 bugfix updates for CentOS-4 (RC1). 1. mod_perl needed to be recompiled after the RH errata for perl was incorporated, but it was not flagged by the perl update. ( https://bugzilla.caosity.org/show_bug.cgi?id=803 ) (thanks Joshua Hirsh) 2. httpd identified itself as Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) Server instead of CentOS ( https://bugzilla.caosity.org/show_bug.cgi?id=806 ) (thanks xspace) 3. up2date does not work with the CentOS-4 key, but requires the original vendor key. ( https://bugzilla.caosity.org/show_bug.cgi? id=805 ) (thanks xspace) The following updated files are pushed to beta.centos.org and should be available by using the command: yum upgrade Filelist: httpd-2.0.52-9.ent.centos4.1.i386.rpm httpd-devel-2.0.52-9.ent.centos4.1.i386.rpm httpd-manual-2.0.52-9.ent.centos4.1.i386.rpm httpd-suexec-2.0.52-9.ent.centos4.1.i386.rpm mod_perl-1.99_16-4.centos4.i386.rpm mod_perl-devel-1.99_16-4.centos4.i386.rpm mod_ssl-2.0.52-9.ent.centos4.1.i386.rpm up2date-4.4.5-1.centos4.1.i386.rpm up2date-gnome-4.4.5-1.centos4.1.i386.rpm -- Johnny Hughes <http://www.HughesJR.com/>

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CentOS 4 X86_64?
by kimery＠kimery.com 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

Any word on the X86_64 build? I'm sitting on a server that I need to ship off to colo, I can probably wait 7-10 days before I have to ship, but I don't want to sit on the server if the X86_64 build is going to be outside that timeframe. Can someone please give a status update on the X86_64 build? - Sam

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xdelta results between beta and rc1 isos.
by Rob Starkey 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

xdelta results: 666198016 CentOS-4.0-Beta-Binary-CD1.iso 635330560 CentOS-4.0-Beta-Binary-CD2.iso 661059584 CentOS-4.0-Beta-Binary-CD3.iso 662018048 CentOS-4.0-Beta-Binary-CD4.iso 444139520 CentOS-4.0-Beta-Binary-CD5.iso - 658491392 CentOS-4.0.rc1-i386-bin1of5.iso 611952640 CentOS-4.0.rc1-i386-bin2of5.iso 666099712 CentOS-4.0.rc1-i386-bin3of5.iso 663128064 CentOS-4.0.rc1-i386-bin4of5.iso 360095744 CentOS-4.0.rc1-i386-bin5of5.iso - 522078044 disc1.delta - 144119972 diff 584136615 disc2.delta - 51193945 diff 630595579 disc3.delta - 30464005 diff 613272303 disc4.delta - 48745745 diff 322226619 disc5.delta - 121912901 diff - Total: 396,436,568 bytes I don't have the bandwidth resources to publish the diffs but to save ~400megs of bandwidth, it'll be worth it to people who have beta isos. Rob

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CentOS-4.0 (RC1) for i386 Official Release
by Karanbir Singh 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

The CentOS team is happy to announce the availability of CentOS-4.0 (RC1) for i386. This product supports AMD Athlon, Athlon XP, Duron, Intel Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4 and Pentium Xeon processors. i586 based CPU's are also supported. A bittorent for CD binary iso files is available from: http://beta.centos.org/centos/4.0beta/isos/i386/CentOS-4.0.rc1-i386-bin1to5… The only way to download ISO's is via bittorrent. Please leave your download client running after the download is complete (with ports 6881-6889 open) as your client will become part of the peer to peer bittorrent network and reduce the load on our network mirrors. If you need some quick pointers for getting up to speed on bittorrent read: http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=24 --------------------- NOTE: This is a Release Candidate distribution build and may not be suitable for use in production environments. We encourage you to provide feedback on this build via the Mailing Lists. However, any errors or bugs you encounter should be reported to us via bugzilla on http://www.centos.org/bugs --------------------- RC1 - Expected life span is 14 days from Release. Within this time period we expect to move to a Final Release. Unless there are any urgent security issues, there will be no package update provided for RC1. If you are currently running Centos4/Beta i386, you should take a look at the release notes at : http://beta.centos.org/centos/4.0beta/os/i386/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html, before attempting the upgrade. We are working on an upgrade path from CentOS3 to CentOS4. Once complete, it will be posted into the Mailing Lists as well as posted online at www.centos.org --------------------- Known Issues include a problem with the initial splash screen displayed at CD Boot time. --------------------- To stay current with CentOS: Join the CentOS mailing list at: http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Join various team members on IRC at irc.freenode.net #centos Visit our new website at http://www.centos.org Enjoy, The CentOS Team

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auto update question
by Michel Daggelinckx 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

i'm looking for a way to automaticaly update my centos 3.4 system so that it will get security updates every 24 hours and automaticaly install them.

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RE: [Centos] auto update question
by Bob Pierce 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

Try thowing a line like tis in your crontab: 45 6 * * * root /usr/bin/yum -y -R 15 update | mail -s "Up2date Report for Servername" your(a)email.com -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)caosity.org [mailto:centos-bounces@caosity.org] On Behalf Of Michel Daggelinckx Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 5:43 AM To: centos(a)caosity.org Subject: [Centos] auto update question i'm looking for a way to automaticaly update my centos 3.4 system so that it will get security updates every 24 hours and automaticaly install them. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)caosity.org http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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some questions
by Michiel van Es 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

Hi, I was wondering if RHEL 4 already available is...and the CentOS version. I am running Centos 4 beta but I did not receive any updates from January - now..and I saw a bunch of RHEL 4 errata updates today. Thanks for your answer. -- Michiel

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