Guys,
I've been trying to install centos 6.2, then 6.3 onto a supermicro 6013P-8 which does not have a DVD rom drive. Those newer version of CentOS only have DVD (not CD) iso versions so I've been sharing the install via NFS.
With each try the install hangs forever installing 'selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-154.el6.noarch'. How can I disable that feature and / or SE Linux altogether so that I can get CentOS 6 installed? I would of course install SE Linux once the box was up.
I'd really appreciate some advice here.
Thanks! Tim
Hi Tim,
What if you symlink the shared nfs dir to /var/www/html/somedir and try the http protocol? May help?
Phil
On 07/11/2012 02:53 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote:
Guys,
I've been trying to install centos 6.2, then 6.3 onto a supermicro 6013P-8 which does not have a DVD rom drive. Those newer version of CentOS only have DVD (not CD) iso versions so I've been sharing the install via NFS.
With each try the install hangs forever installing 'selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-154.el6.noarch'. How can I disable that feature and / or SE Linux altogether so that I can get CentOS 6 installed? I would of course install SE Linux once the box was up.
I'd really appreciate some advice here.
Thanks! Tim
Or create a simple kickstart file that would specify the HTTP or FTP method and install from a public mirror?
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-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Phil Savoie Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 6:10 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird
Hi Tim,
What if you symlink the shared nfs dir to /var/www/html/somedir and try the http protocol? May help?
Phil
On 07/11/2012 02:53 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote:
Guys,
I've been trying to install centos 6.2, then 6.3 onto a supermicro 6013P-8 which does not have a DVD rom drive. Those newer version of CentOS only have DVD (not CD) iso versions so I've been sharing the
install via NFS.
With each try the install hangs forever installing 'selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-154.el6.noarch'. How can I disable that feature and / or SE Linux altogether so that I can get CentOS 6
installed?
I would of course install SE Linux once the box was up.
I'd really appreciate some advice here.
Thanks! Tim
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On 07/11/2012 02:53 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote:
Guys,
I've been trying to install centos 6.2, then 6.3 onto a supermicro 6013P-8 which does not have a DVD rom drive. Those newer version of CentOS only have DVD (not CD) iso versions so I've been sharing the install via NFS.
With each try the install hangs forever installing 'selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-154.el6.noarch'. How can I disable that feature and / or SE Linux altogether so that I can get CentOS 6 installed? I would of course install SE Linux once the box was up.
I'd really appreciate some advice here.
Thanks! Tim
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.
I used to do network installs from an NFS server just this way. I had several different distributions/versions shared on the NFS server. You could install any one of the shared distros that you wanted.
On 07/11/2012 02:53 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote:
Guys,
I've been trying to install centos 6.2, then 6.3 onto a supermicro 6013P-8 which does not have a DVD rom drive. Those newer version of CentOS only have DVD (not CD) iso versions so I've been sharing the install via NFS.
With each try the install hangs forever installing 'selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-154.el6.noarch'. How can I disable that feature and / or SE Linux altogether so that I can get CentOS 6 installed? I would of course install SE Linux once the box was up.
I'd really appreciate some advice here.
Hi Tim.
In your kickstart file add this line: (this is for 5.x - not tested it on 6.x yet)
# Turn off SELinux. selinux --disabled
http://www.karsites.net/centos/anyuser/kickstart-files.php
You might also find this helpful
http://www.karsites.net/centos/anyuser/kickstart-PDF-manual.php
Kind Regards,
Keith
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On 07/12/2012 07:23 AM, Keith Roberts wrote:
In your kickstart file add this line: (this is for 5.x - not tested it on 6.x yet)
# Turn off SELinux. selinux --disabled
All the CentOS machines I've installed have had selinux set to disabled this way.
However, the packet selinux-policy-targeted get's installed anyway.
Mogens
What if you symlink the shared nfs dir to /var/www/html/somedir and try the http protocol? May help?
Already tried using http, and got the same result. I don't think, therefore, that the method of install is the problem at all. I think there may be some hardware compatibility problem with that (and possibly other) component of SELinux.
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.
That's precisely what I was thinking of doing. Just haven't got the chance to do that yet. I'll be busy the next few days hopefully next week I can try again.
# Turn off SELinux. selinux --disabled
Might want to try that in addition to ripping out the RPMs, tho I'm not sure doing both would be necessary.
Maybe it's the CPU that's having a problem with SELinux under CentOS 6?
Socket Designation: CPU2 Type: Central Processor Family: Xeon Manufacturer: GenuineIntel ID: 29 0F 00 00 FF FB EB BF Signature: Type 0, Family 15, Model 2, Stepping 9 Flags: FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip) VME (Virtual mode extension) DE (Debugging extension) PSE (Page size extension) TSC (Time stamp counter) MSR (Model specific registers) PAE (Physical address extension) MCE (Machine check exception) CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported) APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported) SEP (Fast system call) MTRR (Memory type range registers) PGE (Page global enable) MCA (Machine check architecture) CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported) PAT (Page attribute table) PSE-36 (36-bit page size extension) CLFSH (CLFLUSH instruction supported) DS (Debug store) ACPI (ACPI supported) MMX (MMX technology supported) FXSR (FXSAVE and FXSTOR instructions supported) SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions) SSE2 (Streaming SIMD extensions 2) SS (Self-snoop) HTT (Multi-threading) TM (Thermal monitor supported) PBE (Pending break enabled) Version: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) Voltage: 1.6 V External Clock: Unknown Max Speed: 3500 MHz
Dunno.. but thanks for the advice! I look forward to my next attempt to this. I'd really rather not have to buy new hardware just to run centos 6. There are several libraries and packages that I need from 6 that I don't feel like futzing with on 5 (python and some of it's tools like python-virt-inst) immediately come to mind.
Thanks for your input guys! Tim
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Mogens Kjaer mk@lemo.dk wrote:
On 07/12/2012 07:23 AM, Keith Roberts wrote:
In your kickstart file add this line: (this is for 5.x - not tested it on 6.x yet)
# Turn off SELinux. selinux --disabled
All the CentOS machines I've installed have had selinux set to disabled this way.
However, the packet selinux-policy-targeted get's installed anyway.
Mogens
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On Thursday, July 12, 2012 05:49:50 AM Tim Dunphy wrote:
# Turn off SELinux. selinux --disabled
Might want to try that in addition to ripping out the RPMs, tho I'm not sure doing both would be necessary.
Maybe it's the CPU that's having a problem with SELinux under CentOS 6?
Tim,
I think SELinux is a red herring in this case; I'm running upstream RHEL Server 6.3 32-bit with SELinux in enforcing mode on an older Supermicro system (motherboard P4DP6, has a DVD-ROM CD-RW drive in it) with the following CPU:
Handle 0x0004, DMI type 4, 35 bytes Processor Information Socket Designation: CPU1 Type: Central Processor Family: Xeon Manufacturer: GenuineIntel ID: 27 0F 00 00 FF FB EB BF Signature: Type 0, Family 15, Model 2, Stepping 7 Flags: FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip) VME (Virtual mode extension) DE (Debugging extension) PSE (Page size extension) TSC (Time stamp counter) MSR (Model specific registers) PAE (Physical address extension) MCE (Machine check exception) CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported) APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported) SEP (Fast system call) MTRR (Memory type range registers) PGE (Page global enable) MCA (Machine check architecture) CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported) PAT (Page attribute table) PSE-36 (36-bit page size extension) CLFSH (CLFLUSH instruction supported) DS (Debug store) ACPI (ACPI supported) MMX (MMX technology supported) FXSR (FXSAVE and FXSTOR instructions supported) SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions) SSE2 (Streaming SIMD extensions 2) SS (Self-snoop) HTT (Multi-threading) TM (Thermal monitor supported) PBE (Pending break enabled) Version: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) Voltage: 1.6 V External Clock: Unknown Max Speed: 3000 MHz Current Speed: 2800 MHz Status: Populated, Enabled Upgrade: Other L1 Cache Handle: 0x000B L2 Cache Handle: 0x000C L3 Cache Handle: Not Provided Serial Number: Not Specified Asset Tag: Not Specified Part Number: Not Specified
Have you tried using the minimal install iso? It will fit on a CD.
I think SELinux is a red herring in this case; I'm running upstream RHEL Server 6.3 32-bit with SELinux in enforcing mode on an older Supermicro system (motherboard P4DP6, has a DVD-ROM CD-RW drive in it) with the following CPU:
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.
On Thursday, July 12, 2012 11:16:23 AM Lars Hecking wrote:
I think SELinux is a red herring in this case; I'm running upstream RHEL Server 6.3 32-bit with SELinux in enforcing mode on an older Supermicro system (motherboard P4DP6, has a DVD-ROM CD-RW drive in it) with the following CPU:
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.
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.
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.
Most of my 32-bit Xeons here have 1.5GB or more RAM, and most Xeons from that timeframe would have shipped with 1GB minimum (I don't think my lowest end Xeon, a Dell PE1600SC, was even available at the time with less than 1GB).
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
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
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