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minimize download bandwidth techniques
by Dale Sykora 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

I know of a few techniques for minimizing server bandwidth when bittorent is not an option. 1) If you have the beta isos, you can rename them as centos 5 isos and then rsync from a mirror that allows rsync (such as kernel.org) Then only changes from beta to centos 5 plus some overhead is downloaded. I suppose you could use this technique with bittorrent too. 2) Instead of downloading both cd and dvd isos, just download the cd isos and use a script to create the dvd iso. You can rsync like step 1 if the dvd md5sum differs. A cd to dvd script is at url below (although I haven't tried it yet). http://www.tuxforums.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=446

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Install (not boot) from USB drive?
by Les Mikesell 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Is it possible to install directly from a DVD iso image downloaded to a USB external drive as a file on a FAT filesystem? That is, if I burn the boot.iso on a CD and boot it, is there any way to mount the USB drive and install from the DVD image file there (some target machines don't have a DVD drive). -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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About CentOS 5 isos.
by devel 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hello, Cent-OS 5 is final release? What about DVD iso's? Why the images are not compressed? -- -- Publicidad http://www.pas-world.com

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4.92 beta update to centos5 proper words of caution
by Jim Perrin 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

For those of you who are going to do the update from the centos5 beta to centos 5 proper despite the warnings, this is a(n incomplete) list of instructions for how to accomplish this 1. Get yourself into runlevel 3 (telinit 3 from terminal) as the dbus update will die if you're in X. 2. Setenforce 0 # turn off selinux as there have been some unconfirmed reports that it will interfere with the updates. 3. yum update 4. rpm -qa release="*fc6*" # this will let you find and identify the packages which had the release string changed from fc6 to el5. 5. manually update these rpms to the corresponding proper versions for centos5 proper. I'm not sure how many of these there actually are, so follow-ups to this post are welcomed. If these instructions need to be modified, or are incorrect, please reply with corrections and/or additions. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell

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glibc i686
by Tony Schreiner 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hi I just did my first upgrade from 4 to 5 and for the most everything looks great. Thanks for everything so far. I did notice, that now I have glibc.i386 installed instead of glibc.i686, arch is set to i686 and the i686 kernels did get installed. Tony Schreiner Boston College

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Upgrade from Centos 4.4 to Centos 5
by Guillermo Garron 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hi, Is there a yum way to upgrade from CentOS 4.4 to CentOS 5? Or I just need to download the installation CDs and upgrade using them, as I did many times with Fedora. best regards, -- Guillermo Garron "Linux IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are." (Using FC6, CentOS4.4 and Ubuntu 6.06) http://feeds.feedburner.com/go2linux http://www.go2linux.org

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new machine just turns off after some time.
by Jerry Geis 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

>Jerry Geis wrote: >>/ Hi all... />>/ />>/ I have a new machine for centos 5. amd 6000+, 2 gig and 750GIG drives. />>/ Price is quite reasonable... Anyway... />>/ />>/ centos 5 installs fine, I was running fine then the machine just />>/ turned off. / >Have you disabled cpuspeed? Chris, I see the /proc/cpuinfo shows the CPU going full guns at 3G - which is correct. cpuspeed is NOT running. I looked at the startup of the machine and cpuspeed dies with a seg fault. Jerry

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Anaconda can't squeeze out the repomd.xml
by Mike 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Greetings. There must be some minor changes to anaconda. I'm getting the error: "Cannot open repomd.xml file...." the file seems to be located in the repodata directory... I'm using the following .cf taken directly from the CentOS 4.4 install : install url --url ftp://centos.westmancom.com/5.0/os/i386/ #cdrom lang en_US.UTF-8 langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip 192.168.1.165 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway 192.168.1.1 --hostname eagle.mydomain.com firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp --port=80:tcp --port=21:tcp --port=25:tcp --port=443:tcp selinux --disabled authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 timezone America/Vancouver zerombr yes bootloader --location=mbr clearpart --all --initlabel part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=1000 --ondisk=sda part /var --fstype ext3 --size=12000 --ondisk=sda --asprimary part /usr --fstype ext3 --size=3000 --ondisk=sdb part / --fstype ext3 --size=3000 --ondisk=sda part /tmp --fstype ext3 --size=5000 --ondisk=sdb part /downloads --fstype ext3 --size=10000 --ondisk=sdb part /d1 --fstype ext3 --size=45000 --ondisk=sdb --grow --asprimary part /backup --fstype ext3 --size=45000 --ondisk=sda --grow --asprimary part swap --size=2000 --ondisk=sdb %packages mdadm grub kernel-smp e2fsprogs -dmraid krb5-workstation cpp glibc-headers gcc autoconf libtool libstdc++-devel sendmail-cf zlib-devel libpng-devel pango gd libgcj ncurses-devel glibc-kernheaders glibc-devel gdbm-devel automake libtool gcc-c++ flex libjpeg-devel freetype-devel atk gtk2 libart_lgpl libgcj-devel gd-devel pam-devel %post

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Re: Release for CentOS-5 i386 and x86_64
by Boris Folgmann 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hi distro gods, TNX 4 the excellent work! I've got only a small spoiler. I spotted a typo in the release notes. :-) Karanbir Singh wrote: > ----------------------------------------------- > Online Upgrade from CentOS-4/Final > > The best way to move from CentOS-4 to CentOS-5 is via an installer > upgrade. However if you must do it online, here are some tips to help: [...] > - run a yum upgade ( not update ) "yum upgrade" with r! This removes also obsolete packages. cu, boris

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VMware Server 1.2
by Juan C. Valido 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Has anyone tried VMware Server 1.2 under CentOS 5?

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