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Setting up a local yum repository for CentOS-3.1
by John Newbigin 19 Oct '04

19 Oct '04

Is there an approved procedure for setting up a local yum repository which has all the CentOS-3 patches (3.1 & 3.3)? I don't want to have 2 directories, just a single directory which has all the patches I need. I though the 3.3 directory would have these included but it seems not. If I manually upgrade to centos-release-3.3 (before installing all the 3.1 patches) then I will not get any outstanding patches from 3.1, which might be a problem. As a side issue, is there any reasons for anyone not to upgrade to 3.3? and is running 3.1 still secure? John. -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.it.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin

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i8253 count too high! resetting
by Geoff Nordli 19 Oct '04

19 Oct '04

I am running Centos 3.3. Is there any way to get rid of this harmless, but annoying message. This is a non-production environment. I tried editing the syslog.conf file and adding: kern.none /dev/console And I commented out the *.emerg line like this: #*.emerg * I also reloaded the syslog daemon after making the changes. Thanks, Geoff

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anaconda in 3.3?
by beau 19 Oct '04

19 Oct '04

Greetings, I'm using centos3 to study for rhce, centos came highly recommended in Michael Jang's rhce study guide. I've been having trouble isntalling via nfs, an early exercise in the book, and googling around leads me to think it might be an anaconda bug. I tried following the anaconda link on the "upgrading from 3.1" page but it's actually a duplicate of the anacron link. Does anyone know if this update addresses anything along these lines? Is there any way of guessing whether an update should solve my problems, or that a full re-install with freshly downloaded 3.3 isos would be better? -- Robert Thomas (beau) Hayes Link beau(a)oblios-cap.com (c)2004ISR; http://www.semanticrestructuring.com/ "War on Terror? Splint on Smallpox."

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Lesson Learned
by Dominic Iadicicco 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

Hello all, I learned a very valuable lesson this weekend and thought I would share. I noticed that the xcdroastalpha15-rhel3.i386.rpm's non root mode didn't work very well, so I decided to set out an build my own rpm for it. Well I still can figure out how to add icons to the Main Draw but did finally build a good working RPM. However after doing some reading on the Xcdroast web site, It appears that it is known that the xcdroastalpha15-rhel3.i386.rpm does not work in non-root mode very well and that if you want to use non-root mode you should just download the one for RH9 "xcdroast-0.98alpha15-1.i386.rpm". This works just fine. Thats all.. Dom _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

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Re: [cAos] centos-3 x86_64 install hangs
by Tim Mattox 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

Hello gillian, You can try adding these options to the kernel commandline and it might help: noapic iommu=off The 2.4/2.6 hybrid kernel that RedHat supplies with RHEL3 has some issues with some AMD64 motherboards AFAIK, and the above options made the CentOS 3's kernel bootable for me on one of our systems. BTW - I've moved this to the CentOS mailing list, that is a more appropriate forum for this question. Please remove the caos(a)caosity.org CC if/when anyone replies. On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:25:36 +1000, gillian <gillian.bennett(a)celentia.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Fristly thanks for this awsome distro. It constantly blows me away the > stength of the opensource community. > > I am currently trying to install centos-3 x85_64 on an amd64 whitebox > machine. I downloaded the iso's and have created some CD's over the > weekend. The first cd is bootable and to all intents and purposes the > install appears to proceed. It gets to the splash menu (I am currently > running a manual install just to see how things go) and I hit enter to > proceed with the graphical install. > > It says: > > Loading vmlinuz............. > Loading initrd.img............................ > > Decompressing Linux...done. > Booting the kernel. > > Then it just hangs. Has anyone else seen this happen and been able to > get past this first bit? > > Thanks, gb -- Tim Mattox - tmattox(a)gmail.com - http://homepage.mac.com/tmattox/

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another yum question
by Martin Hamant 15 Oct '04

15 Oct '04

Hello centos community, I have a personal repository with self-made RPMs, and i need to include this repository to yum.conf. But i've noticed that yum configuration is overwritten when yum is updated. I can't update yum.conf manually on my servers each time yum is updated ... Is anyone have an idea ? Thank you. -- Martin

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Adding shortcuts to menu
by Dominic Iadicicco 15 Oct '04

15 Oct '04

Hello all, Can anyone tell me how to add shortcuts to the main draw or point me in the right direction. I did a google on this but came up empty. I am running gnome as my windows manager. I am guessing it is not just point and click. Thanks all. Dominic _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

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Problems with CentOS 3.3 Disk2 Iso Image?
by Scott Sharkey 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

Hi All, I've downloaded this image (disk 2) from several sites, and it matches the MD5 sum. Burning it to a CD gives no errors, but the disk is failing the self-check at the start, and if I ignore that and try to install I get random packages which "cannot be read". I know the burner is OK, as I've burned other CDs on it just fine after burning the CentOS ones. Any thoughts? -Scott

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Possible new CentOS user (currently WBEL)
by Mário Gamito 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

Hi, For a few months i've been using WhiteBox Enterprise Linux. In fact, i've migrated all my companie's servers (about 20) to this RHEL distro like. Well, it's not that i'm not satisfied, but WBEL is a one man show and that causes me some preocupation. And besides, it seems to me that it can't stand up to the rythm RHEL evolves. That's why i'm writing to you, posing a few questions, if you don't mind to answer: 1 - Why did you choose CentOS ? 2 - If you have/had experience with WBEL, why do you prefer CentOS ? 3 - Is CentOS ahead of WBEL in terms of being up to date with RHEL ? 4 - Does CentOS releases an updated version everytime RH does ? 5 - What is (more or less) the time gap between a RHEL update and the correspondent CentOS ? I apologise for the inconvinience and any help would be apreceiated. Warm regards, Mário Gamito -- http://www.startux.org/~gamito

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Sun Gridengine and Centos
by Geoff Galitz 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

G'day. I'm having a little trouble getting Gridengine 5.3 running properly on a cluster using Centos 3.3. Everything appears okay, but my jobs hang in the queue with the gridengine complaining that node is overloaded, but there is nothing (unusual) running on the node and the load is 0. Has anyone else run into similar problems? -geoff

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