[CentOS] Re: CentOS Digest, Vol 28, Issue 28

-- Dyslexics have more fnu. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 08:17:05 -0700 From: "Akemi Yagi" Subject: Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Debian and CentOS multiboot: menu.lst problem To: "CentOS mailing list" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 5/27/07, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I want to slowly migrate from Debian to CentOS, so I setup a multiboot > on my main machine. There's a Debian Etch install on /dev/hda, and GRUB > is also installed on the Debian side. > > On /dev/hdb, I have CentOS 5. I fdisked the drive manually, then chose > manual partitioning during install. The setup for CentOS is: > > hdb1 -> swap > hdb2 -> /boot, ext2 > hdb3 -> / , ext3 > > After completing the install, I rebooted on the Debian side and edited > menu.lst like this: > > > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18 > root (hd0,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18 root=/dev/hda3 vga=788 ro > initrd /initrd.img-2.6.18 > > title CentOS 5 sur hdb3 > root (hd1,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 root=/dev/hdb3 ro > initrd /initrd-2.6.18-8.el5 > > Now when I try to reboot on CentOS, I get an 'Error 15: file not found'. > I add that I've done many multiboot configurations before, so it's not > the first time I have such a scenario. I thought, aha, maybe a typo. So > I entered the GRUB shell and booted CentOS without problems, using tab > completion. > > I double- and triple-checked after this, but I can't seem to find the > error. The stanza seems OK, but still it won't work. > > Do you see a mistake that I don't see? > > Niki Kovacs What is the /etc/fstab line for /dev/hdb3 like? Akemi ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 11:27:24 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marko A. Jennings" Subject: Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Debian and CentOS multiboot: menu.lst problem To: centos@centos.org Message-ID: 40476.192.168.77.10.1180279644.squirrel@bluegargoyle.com Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 On Sun, May 27, 2007 10:56 am, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I want to slowly migrate from Debian to CentOS, so I setup a multiboot > on my main machine. There's a Debian Etch install on /dev/hda, and GRUB > is also installed on the Debian side. > > On /dev/hdb, I have CentOS 5. I fdisked the drive manually, then chose > manual partitioning during install. The setup for CentOS is: > > hdb1 -> swap > hdb2 -> /boot, ext2 > hdb3 -> / , ext3 > > After completing the install, I rebooted on the Debian side and edited > menu.lst like this: > > > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18 > root (hd0,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18 root=/dev/hda3 vga=788 ro > initrd /initrd.img-2.6.18 > > title CentOS 5 sur hdb3 > root (hd1,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 root=/dev/hdb3 ro > initrd /initrd-2.6.18-8.el5 > > Now when I try to reboot on CentOS, I get an 'Error 15: file not found'. Are you sure about the initrd line? All initrd files on my CentOS boxes have the .img extension. Unless you rebuilt yours and named it differently, that might be the problem. ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 08:55:23 -0700 From: Shawn Everett Subject: Re: [CentOS] raid To: CentOS mailing list Message-ID: 200705270855.23460.shawn@tandac.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On Sunday 27 May 2007, CentOS List wrote: > Hi, > > I have 4 x 500GB PATA Harddisk and I like to have them striped and > mirrored. What is the best practise? Raid 0+1 or 1+0.. And how do i go > about it? > Raid 1 and then Raid 0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID Read the sectioon on RAID 1+0 Given: sda sdb sdc sdd Set up md0 (Raid1) (sda,sdb) Set up md1 (Raid1) (sdc,sdd) Set up md2 (Raid0) (md0,md1) Of course given the chance a hardware raid is better. :) Shawn ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 12:17:27 -0700 From: centos@911networks.com Subject: [CentOS] Firefox To: "CentOS mailing list" Message-ID: 20070527121727.60d22430@lilypad.911sqlserver.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Any good set of instructions for upgrading from Firefox 1.5.0.10 to 2.0.0.3? -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 21:35:22 +0200 From: Niki Kovacs Subject: Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Debian and CentOS multiboot: menu.lst problem To: CentOS mailing list Message-ID: 4659DD7A.7020606@kikinovak.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Marko A. Jennings a écrit : > Are you sure about the initrd line? All initrd files on my CentOS boxes > have the .img extension. Unless you rebuilt yours and named it > differently, that might be the problem. And that WAS the problem. Curiously, I hesitated over it. In fact, Debian initrd files are called initrd.img-2.6.18-something... while CentOS initrd is initrd-2.6.18-something.img. Hence the confusion. Thanks very much! Niki -- Dyslexics have more fnu. ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 21:45:21 +0200 From: Daniel de Kok Subject: Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Debian and CentOS multiboot: menu.lst problem To: CentOS mailing list Message-ID: 1180295121.5740.5.camel@mindbender.taickim.com Content-Type: text/plain Hi Niki, On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 21:35 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > And that WAS the problem. Curiously, I hesitated over it. In fact, > Debian initrd files are called initrd.img-2.6.18-something... while > CentOS initrd is initrd-2.6.18-something.img. Hence the confusion. You could consider installing GRUB from CentOS in the MBR of the CentOS disk (though, the boot partition would be fine too), and add something like --- title CentOS root (hd1) makeactive chainloader +1 --- To your Debian GRUB configuration. This prevents that you'll have to update your Debian GRUB configuration again after n kernel updates (where n is the number set with the installonlyn yum plugin). -- Daniel ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 17:28:58 +1000 From: DamianS Subject: Re: [CentOS] Audacity 1.2.6 on CentOS 5 To: CentOS mailing list Message-ID: 1180337338.6183.0.camel@localhost Content-Type: text/plain You should be able to install the FC6 package ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 09:36:32 +0200 From: Niki Kovacs Subject: Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Debian and CentOS multiboot: menu.lst problem To: CentOS mailing list Message-ID: 465A8680.6000200@kikinovak.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Daniel de Kok a écrit : > > You could consider installing GRUB from CentOS in the MBR of the CentOS > disk (though, the boot partition would be fine too), and add something > like Thanks for the hint, Daniel. But the solution is only a temporary one. My goal is to become a distribution monogamist with CentOS and to completely migrate to it from Debian :o) Cheers, Niki -- Dyslexics have more fnu. ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 09:41:40 +0200 From: Lorenzo Subject: Re: [CentOS] Squid +Yum = apt-cacher? To: CentOS mailing list Message-ID: 465A87B4.1080009@gmk.it Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Florin Andrei ha scritto: > Lorenzo wrote: >> So mrepo and PXE boot are really nice and funny, but they don't solve >> at all my need of bandwidth saving. > > Why don't you create your own repo mirror? That's what I used to do, > works pretty well. > See my other replay: again with few installations (around 10) this doesn't drive to bandwidth saving. ------------------------------ Message: 13 Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 15:18:34 +0700 From: Gunawan Subject: Re: [CentOS] Firefox To: "CentOS mailing list" Message-ID: 4505b0860705280118y3efd8edi7246214b59772715@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP; format=flowed On 5/28/07, centos@911networks.com wrote: > Any good set of instructions for upgrading from Firefox 1.5.0.10 to > 2.0.0.3? http://www.philoking.com/2006/11/15/how-to-update-to-firefox-20-on-fedora-co... swholt #12. February 25th, 2007 , at 8:40 AM . I did it a little different. Do these as root (or su). Download firefox-2.0.0.2.tar.gz from www.mozilla.com. Create /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.2 directory and extract the tarball there. Copy any extensions you have in /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.9/extensions to /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.2/extensions. Change two lines in /usr/bin/firefox: if [ -x "/usr/lib64/firefox-1.5.0.9/firefox-bin" ] to if [ -x "/usr/lib64/firefox-2.0.0.1/firefox-bin" ] MOZ_DIST_BIN="$MOZ_LIB_DIR/firefox-1.5.0.9$B!m(B to MOZ_DIST_BIN="$MOZ_LIB_DIR/firefox-2.0.0.1$B!m(B Now if something doesn't work for you you can just change /usr/bin/firefox back to point to the 1.5.0.9 directory. *G ------------------------------ Message: 14 Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 10:57:22 +0200 From: Niki Kovacs Subject: [CentOS] Problems setting up legacy NVidia card To: CentOS Mailing List Message-ID: 465A9972.9060609@kikinovak.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi, Here's my video card: $ lspci | grep -i vga 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV15 [GeForce2 GTS/Pro] (rev a3) Until now, I've used it on Slackware (10.0, 10.2, 11.0) and Debian (Sarge, Etch), and I've always managed to set it up fine. First, I checked if there were any precompiled nvidia drivers in the various repos (rpmforge, ...), but there seemed to be only recent drivers. So I went to the nvidia site and downloaded the corresponding driver for my card: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7185-pkg1.run I also updated my kernel, and then 'yum install kernel-devel gcc'. After doing this, it was time for 'init 3'. I started the installer: # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7185-pkg1.run I went through the steps like I've done a few times before, and it didn't complain about anything. I then opened /etc/X11/xorg.conf, searched for the Driver section and replaced "nv" by "nvidia". To be on the safe side, I rebooted. (I've had some strange GDM problems before when simply doing init 5). My default screen resolution on my 17'' flat monitor is 1024x768. (The CentOS installer defaulted to 1280x1024, but I manually edited xorg.conf to change it). Now, after starting X with the "nvidia" driver, curiously I had a resolution that looked more like 800x600 (and curiously reminded me of a default Windows 95 install :o)) I opened a console with Ctrl-Alt-F6, opened /etc/X11/xorg.conf to look for a mistake... and noticed something strange. xorg.conf looks now curiously amputated. Here's the whole file, or what's left of it: --8<------------------------------------------------- # Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "ch" Option "XkbVariant" "fr" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection --8<------------------------------------------------- This leaves me a bit clueless. Where has my original xorg.conf (the long version) gone? Is there a way to get it back somehow? And where does this new - and severely truncated xorg.conf file come from? Any suggestions? Niki -- Dyslexics have more fnu. ------------------------------ Message: 15 Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 17:04:32 +0800 From: "Wei Yu" Subject: [CentOS] Where to find RHDS (Red Hat Directory Server) ? To: "CentOS mailing list" Message-ID: 65ec0b360705280204h6a236e4cg27a941b5fa82e11b@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi! In the release notes it is said RHDS will replace OpenLDAP. However, I can only find OpenLDAP in CentOS5. I tried to google the web but it returned nothing useful. Does anyone know about this? Thanks. Regards, Wei Yu