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Re: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative
by David G. Miller 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

"Matt Shields" <mattboston(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Nov 27, 2007 10:37 AM, Count Of Dracula <countofdracula(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> > On 11/26/07, Dag Wieers <dag(a)centos.org> wrote: >> >>> > > Hi all, >>> > > >>> > > I would like to announce a CentOS on Laptops initiative. The aim is to >>> > > allow everybody in the community (and on this mailinglist) to document >>> > > their own experience with CentOS on their laptop (on the CentOS wiki). >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > The goal of this initiative consists of 2 parts: >>> > > >>> > > - help and convince people with their own CentOS on laptop installation >>> >> > >> > Are you nuts? CentOS on laptop? Why you want to kill torture people in >> > such a cruel way? >> > >> > Joy >> > > Because some people may actually want to run a stable OS that will > have patches released for quite a while. Fedora is not an option for > most business people who rely on their laptops every day. Torture is > installing the latest Fedora every 6 months and hoping something > doesn't break. Some would say Fedora users are nuts. I think you perfectly described my experience with Fedora on my laptop (HP zv6015). I managed to coerce Fedora 4 onto it (even the install was wonky until I learned about nofb). I got tired of chasing the latest Fedora release and moved to CentOS 5 when it was released. I built a custom kernel for a while so the card reader would work until enough fixes got back ported that the stock kernel would read the SD card my camera uses. Now everything (sort of) "just works (TM)". I say "sort of" because I'm still running ndiswrapper since every time I've tried the bcm43xx kernel module it hasn't worked with my WAP. With CentOS 5 the laptop seems to be as stable as my desktop. About the only time I ever boot the Windows XP Home partition is if there's a BIOS update or something that HP doesn't release any other way. Can't imagine torturing myself with XP. Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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rpm / yum / repo wranging tools?
by Rogelio 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

I'm inheriting dozens of CentOS servers and am looking for various tools to help me wrangle the rpm / yum / repo madness. Any tools you might suggest for me to look into would be greatly appreciated!

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X windows
by Hiep Nguyen 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

hi all, i just finished install (minimal) centos 5. how do i use yum to install X windows so that i can use gui. thanks, T. Hiep

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Using a local mirror?
by Jason Pyeron 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

We have a rsync'ed copy of the centos distro. We want to point our local machines at that, what is our next step? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Sr. Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, purge the message from your system and notify the sender immediately. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited.

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Re: [CentOS] Adobe products under Linux?
by Ross S. W. Walker 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

You could try crossover office, it's reported to work with several windows apps from adobe. Photoshop I believe works. -Ross -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org <centos-bounces(a)centos.org> To: centos(a)centos.org <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Fri Nov 23 17:03:10 2007 Subject: [CentOS] Adobe products under Linux? Also sent to Codeweavers - [what is this list's insights?] I have a 32 GB, dual quad-core desktop machine and was considering 32-bit Windows XP w/SP2, but discovered it only supports up to 4 GB RAM, so that idea is shot. Next in line is 64-bit CentOS 5. The major need for Windows would be very active use of Adobe Acrobat 8, Photoshop CS3, and Illustrator CS3. There may also be the need to copy/transfer information among Matlab, Mathematica, and Microsoft-based applications, from Office 2003 to the above-mentioned ones. Do you support these, and how complete is your product line for 64-bit CentOS 5? Based on your answer, I'll know whether to go with a virtual machine-based solution, which means a Windows VM, or can remain Linux-only, with your solution. Thank you very much. Scott _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.

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reader
by qsm 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

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SSD and linux
by Jerry Geis 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

Are the new SSD disks compatible with centos 5.0? Anybody have one? know where to get one? I think they only come with new laptops. Jerry

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Need help with httpd.conf not rendering cgi or php files
by Scott Ehrlich 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

I got this working perfectly at home - what should be exact same setups- - Fresh install of CentOS 5 32-bit from DVD - yum update & upgrade - Reboot - yum install mysql-server - Download phpmyadmin and bugzilla from their respective home pages - Move both to /var/www/html, naming the extracted phpmyadmin directory as phpmyadmin, the same with bugzilla - Copy my working httpd.conf file from home and replacing the work one, then restarting httpd - sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart - Verify mysql is running - sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld restart Call up firefox via an ssh x session and visit http://localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php. Instead of showing a rendered page, it only shows the text of the index.php file. Same for http://localhost/bugzilla/index.cgi What did I miss? The same config file from home, in a setup that worked perfectly, is missing something here! /usr/sbin/httpd -v Server version: Apache/2.2.3 Thanks for any help. Scott

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script to take cd iso's and create dvd iso
by Tom Brown 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

Hi I used to have a script that would take a dir of cd iso's and then stick them together and create a DVD iso. I seem to remember downloading it from a link posted in here. I have searched but cant find it, i dont suppose anyone knows of such a thing? thanks

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Kickstart install via network, nonexistant disk sda
by ethan＠757.org 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Hello all, I have 3 Supermicro 1u servers, each with dual 250gb SATA drives. I have a server with CentOS 5 64bit setup for pxebooting and kickstart installs. I have a kickstart install file that doesn't specify the disks specifically. It works like a champ, and the operating system installs and completes. I have a kickstart install file that specifies the disk devices (sda, sdb) pulled and modified from another similiar system. My goal here is configuring software RAID. Whenever I try to use the file for software raid, she dies with an error: "Specified nonexistant disk sda in clearpart command" ... if I removed the --drives-sda,sdb from the clearpart, it will just fail on the part command for RAID. Now, I struggled with machine #1 for a long time, then realized that it is probably the onboard raid in the BIOS, which isn't a real RAID. Turned it off, and it appeared to be the solution. I thought I was well on my way. I did the same for machines #2 and #3 which had no installation attempts, and they would not work. I can take the disks from machine #1, which will run through a reinstall fine, and throw them in machine #2 and *it will install*. So it seems to be an issue with the partition information on the disk. I tried doing a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda (bs=1024 count=10000) to try to overwrite any RAID metadata and partition information and what not. During the install, when I have the error that sda is invalid, I can hit the vty2 (emergency shell) and easily run fdisk /dev/sda and print the partition table. So the device is there, and accessable. I've tried every incarnation of clearpart commands. My current kickstart info: # RAID kickstart # clearpart --linux --drives=sda,sdb # clearpart --all --linux --initlabel clearpart --drives=sda,sdb --all --initlabel # clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda,sdb part raid.9 --size=100 --ondrive=sda part raid.10 --size=100 --ondrive=sdb part raid.13 --size=2000 --ondrive=sdb part raid.12 --size=2000 --ondrive=sda part raid.16 --size=100 --grow --ondrive=sdb part raid.15 --size=100 --grow --ondrive=sda raid /boot --fstype ext3 --level=RAID1 --device=md0 raid.9 raid.10 raid swap --fstype swap --level=RAID1 --device=md1 raid.12 raid.13 raid / --fstype ext3 --level=RAID1 --device=md2 raid.15 raid.16 Any advice is appreciated!

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