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Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows
by Majian 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Yeah! I agree you ! If you install CentOS in Windows , you firstly backup the important data to some place in case of the machine is crashed;Then you can start to install CentOS by the useful tool which called grub-for-docs. That tool is to build to grub for CentOS and Windows .You can search it by Googling. Gook Luck! And hope this can help you! On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu(a)orgfarm.uu.se>wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf > >Of Frank Thommen > >Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:27 PM > >To: CentOS mailing list > >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows > > > >> I have to install CentOS on a spare partition of a laptop with > >> Windows pre installed. Is there anything I have to watch out for? > >> Couldn't find anything in the wiki or does the installer handle this > >> well without me doing some magic, or so? > > > >The installer will handle this perfectly if you select the correct > >partition for your CentOS installation :-) > > With that said, make sure you have a backup of the important stuff on the > Windows-partitions. > > -- > /Sorin > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user
by Marcelo M. Garcia 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf >> Of Matt >> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 11:29 PM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user >> >> Thats my thought as well. Ubuntu desktop and CentOS for servers. >> Just wandering if anyone is using the 'Ubuntu Server Edition's'? They >> seem appealing but CentOS is what I am used too on servers now. >> Thought about loading it up on a box to just try though. > > Not using, but I've tried it in a LAMP-configuration couple of years ago. > Stability seems ok, but personally I don't like the sudo this and sudo that > and sudo everywhere. Besides, it felt somehow clunky. CentOS seemed slim, > slick and fast compared at the time, so CentOS is what I got stuck with (in > an endearing sense of course). > > HTH. Hi Sorin You can "sudo bash" and you will have a root terminal. In it, you can set the root password for root. Regards mg.

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Is fr.centos.org dead ?
by Niki Kovacs 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hi, What's wrong with fr.centos.org? Any news? Site's been dead for quite some time now. Niki

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how to turn off "update info" on /var/log/messages
by mcclnx mcc 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

we have CENTOS 5.3 on DELL server. This server is inside firewall and it continue get error messages on /var/log/messages: error getting update info: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: base. Please verify its path and try again anyone know how to turn off it? Thanks. ___________________________________________________ 您的生活即時通－溝通、娛樂、生活、工作一次搞定！ http://messenger.yahoo.com.tw/

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My doubts with apache server on centos installation
by vijay shanker 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hi Linux geeks, I have just started to setup a production server with centos; and moved from windows server to centos. My first encounter with this great linux distro is good. I am not able to understand what is the point of having scattered folders for apache server installation. when i see the /etc/httpd folder; it has only conf folder and links to logs, module and , run. As i have been working on Windows where all these files are stored in a single installation folder. So, this makes me quite confused to start with. Can anyone tell me what is the idea behind using such a installation pattern. Now i am going to install java, I have two options via RPM and other is extracting the distro and use it. i have a feeling if i use first option, all the folders like jre and jdk will be palced any where. Not to be found. Please tell me or point to any relevant link. so i can go ahead without any doubt over this issue. -- Regards, Vijay Shanker

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/etc/inittab not loaded properly
by ahmad riza h nst 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

hi, im new here. we have servers with centos 4. yesterday one of it crash and cold rebooted. reboot process run well until finally we found that some of /etc/inittab configurations doesn't loaded properly, like no virtual terminal available and svscanboot not executed. i assumed that these configurations not loaded: # Run gettys in standard runlevels 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6 # Run xdm in runlevel 5 x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon SV:123456:respawn:/command/svscanboot clearly this is not normal and how to fix it ? please help! thank you. -- http://blog.rizahnst.org

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OT: What's wrong with RAID5
by Fajar Priyanto 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hi all, Sorry for the OT. I've got an IBM N3300-A10 NAS. It runs Data Ontap 7.2.5.1. The problem is, from the docs it says that it only supports either RAID-DP or RAID4. What I want to achieve is Max Storage Capacity, so I change it from RAID-DP to RAID4, but with RAID4, the maximum disk in a RAID Group decrease from 14 to 7. In the end, either using RAID-DP or RAID4, the capacity is the same. Now, why RAID5 is not supported? I believe using RAID5, I can get more storage capacity, can't I? I also notice with some onboard RAID controller, they only support either RAID0, RAID1, or RAID1+0. No RAID5. What's wrong with RAID5, is there any technical limitation with RAID5? Thanks.

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how can i configure linux as ppp
by chloe K 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hi My DSL modem has problem. I would like to use linux as ppp. How can I configure it? Thank you __________________________________________________________________ Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com

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Desktop apps, OO and Scribus
by lhecking＠users.sourceforge.net 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

I just came across a user who tried to view a Word document on a CentOS5 machine, and it seems that desktop, firefox etc. are trying to view it with Scribus instead of OpenOffice. This needs to change. Is there a system-wide setting for it? On the older, RHEL3 systems we used to have mozplugger, but it's not available in the standard CentOS repositories or rpmforge. What are we supposed to use now? I have one CentOS box here that has mozplugger installed, but I don't know where that came from, it's not in the yum log files.

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Cloning Centos server with RSync - what to exclude?
by Bob Puff＠NLE 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Hi all, I have a few CentOS servers that I want to mirror live, to be standby spares. The "spare" machines could be either a different machine (with a different motherboard), or a VM in Vmware server. I've used rsync in the past, which works well for doing it while the machine is live. However, I want the destination to be running different hardware, and have a different IP address assigned to the nic. My goal is to rsync everything -except- the files that pertain to the network interface, and the file system mount points. My process is this: 1. Install Centos on "spare" machine, configure for proper ethernet. 2. Rsync from live to spare, excluding files pertaining to NIC and FS. Then if it needs to go live, I simply change the IP address, and I'm off and running. The question is: what do I exclude? I know /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/, /etc/fstab, and /etc/modules*, but what else? I think there may be some stuff in /var also that deals with raid, etc. The live computer is running software raid, while the backup will not. Bob

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