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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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Centos-3 Updates
by seth vidal 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

Hi folks, More Centos-3 Updates for i386 and x86_64 These should be showing up at a mirror near you: Security: cyrus-sasl: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-546.html i386: i386/RPMS/cyrus-sasl-2.1.15-10.i386.rpm i386/RPMS/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.15-10.i386.rpm i386/RPMS/cyrus-sasl-gssapi-2.1.15-10.i386.rpm i386/RPMS/cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.15-10.i386.rpm i386/RPMS/cyrus-sasl-plain-2.1.15-10.i386.rpm i386/SRPMS/cyrus-sasl-2.1.15-10.src.rpm x86_64: x86_64/RPMS/cyrus-sasl-2.1.15-10.x86_64.rpm x86_64/RPMS/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.15-10.x86_64.rpm x86_64/RPMS/cyrus-sasl-gssapi-2.1.15-10.x86_64.rpm x86_64/RPMS/cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.15-10.x86_64.rpm x86_64/RPMS/cyrus-sasl-plain-2.1.15-10.x86_64.rpm x86_64/SRPMS/cyrus-sasl-2.1.15-10.src.rpm Let us know if there are any problems. To update for any of these simply run: yum update - Will Dinkel and Seth Vidal

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CentOS3.3
by Dominic Iadicicco 10 Oct '04

10 Oct '04

Hello all, Just need some info to clarify something. How is 3.3? By word of mouth I heard that their may have been some issues with it. However I have not heard anything here on this forum or any problems with RHE3 U3. So I am assuming all is well. Please verify if possible. Thanks all Dominic Iadicicco _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

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Problem installing rpms with yum/up2date
by Support 08 Oct '04

08 Oct '04

Hi all, we have installed a fresh CentOS 3.3 system, imported the keys: rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY* trying to install a package fails: up2date -i mysql mysql-3.23.58-1.i386.rpm: ########################## Done. The package mysql-3.23.58-1 is signed, but with an uknown GPG key. Aborting... Package mysql-3.23.58-1 has a unknown GPG signature. Aborting... the same problem with yum yum update Error: Could not find the GPG Key necessary to validate pkg /var/cache/yum/update/packages/cups-1.1.17-13.3.13.i386.rpm Error: You may want to run yum clean or remove the file: /var/cache/yum/update/packages/cups-1.1.17-13.3.13.i386.rpm Error: You may also check that you have the correct GPG keys installed somebody knows what´s going wrong?` tia and best regards!

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RHEL / Mini-ITX
by Lee W 08 Oct '04

08 Oct '04

Hi Everyone, I'd be grateful if anyone can help with a couple of queries I have. Recently I downloaded Centos 3.3 and cannot get it to install I my system. The system I am using to install is a based on an original EPIA Mini-ITX m/board. At a certain point in installing it comes up with an error saying something like "system not supported". Can anyone advise if they have got Centos installed sucessfully on an ITX system? In truth I am not surprised that it doesn't work as I guess it is not what you would original have seen as being used for an Enterprise Server, but lack-of-space at home prevents me from having a full server. The other query I have relates to differences between RHEL and Centos. I originally downloaded Centos as a means of studying for the RHCE/T certification given that I cannot afford the cost of the commercial/supported version. Can anyone point me to a summary of what is missing from Centos compared to the Red Hat Enterprise release and therefore may potentially hamper my studies. The site briefly mentions that "Non-free packages, such as those encumbered by a non-redistributable copyright or trademark, are altered to avoid infringement". Thank you in advance for any advise offered. Regards Lee

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