hey guys,
sorry it took so long to get back to you. But I was finally able to do this.
To recap:
Are you absolutely sure the install hangs forever? How long is forever?
I have noticed too that at the end of the >installation, the system seems hung for quite some time on this package (or whatever postinstall script is running at >the end). I have had times when the system seemed hung but after giving it a lot more time it would eventually >complete.
Well to give you a better idea of how I was defining "forever", I attempted to do this over a few days. So I would load up centos 6.2 or 6.3 to the point I would get to the SE Linux component. And then I would go out for lunch, do some errands and come back to it 4 or 5 hours later. That to me would constitute a 'forever'. :)
Rip all the RPM files from the DVD. Then share that directory on NFS and install from that. Leave out the problematic RPMs from the directory.
Tried that too.. ultimately the install complained about selinux-policy-targeted not being there and would refuse to proceed. So, back to the drawing board.
Tim didn't detail the amount of RAM he had (to the best of my
recollection) but my machine of that same age has >4GB, so RAM wasn't an issue here, at least not for the selinux piece.
To answer this question - 8 GB :)
Have you tried using the minimal install iso? It will fit on a CD.
Bingo! That was it. Thank you list! You guys rock. Always appreciate your advice.
Best, Tim
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Stephen Harris lists@spuddy.org wrote:
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 02:04:40PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
On Thursday, July 12, 2012 11:16:23 AM Lars Hecking wrote:
The problem with the selinux rpms is that they need copious amounts
of RAM
during installation. From my experience, a minimum of 0.75 to 1GB.
But that's a good data point, and really should be addressed as part of
the system requirements for upstream.... actually, 1GB is the recommended minimum RAM on a 32 bit system by upstream.
Would a minimal kickstart file do? This is mine, which I use to build small VMS (4Gb disk, 512Mb RAM)
install url --url http://repo/CentOS/DVD/CentOS-6 text reboot
lang en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us
network --onboot yes --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --ipv6 auto
rootpw --iscrypted yeahyeahyeah authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512
firewall --disabled selinux --disabled
timezone --utc America/New_York
zerombr yes clearpart --all --initlabel part /boot --fstype=ext4 --asprimary --size=100 part swap --asprimary --size=512 part / --fstype=ext4 --asprimary --grow --size=1 bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=vda --append=" crashkernel=auto quiet"
repo --name="CentOS" --baseurl=http://repo/CentOS/DVD/CentOS-6--cost=100 repo --name="Updates" --baseurl= http://repo/CentOS/updates/centos6/x86_64 --cost=500
%packages --nobase @core yum openssh-server openssh-clients ksh dos2unix ntp-perl logwatch wget acpid yum-plugin-priorities bind-utils -checkpolicy -policycoreutils -selinux-policy -selinux-policy-targeted -efibootmgr -kernel-firmware -aic94xx-firmware -atmel-firmware -b43-openfwwf -bfa-firmware -ipw2100-firmware -ipw2200-firmware -ivtv-firmware -iwl100-firmware -iwl1000-firmware -iwl3945-firmware -iwl4965-firmware -iwl5000-firmware -iwl5150-firmware -iwl6000-firmware -iwl6000g2a-firmware -iwl6000g2b-firmware -iwl6050-firmware -libertas-usb8388-firmware -netxen-firmware -ql2100-firmware -ql2200-firmware -ql23xx-firmware -ql2400-firmware -ql2500-firmware -rt61pci-firmware -rt73usb-firmware -xorg-x11-drv-ati-firmware -zd1211-firmware
%post %end
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