I used google but did not come up with anything current to solve my problem. I have not tried any other search engines yet. There is not a search for the CentOS list so I am creating a new post.
I have tested the CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 CD's and they passed. I had to use linux mediacheck ide=nodma to get them to pass. The newest releases seem to most times fail with just linux mediacheck.
I have tried linux ide=nodma and linux text ide=nodma after trying linux and linux text
Anaconda fails on both CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 in all cases.
The system I am trying to install on is running CentOS 3.x.
The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive.
Please provide any options to the kernel that I should try besides the ones mentioned above that fail.
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 16:37 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
I used google but did not come up with anything current to solve my problem. I have not tried any other search engines yet. There is not a search for the CentOS list so I am creating a new post.
See below - it's really hard to find.
I have tested the CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 CD's and they passed. I had to use linux mediacheck ide=nodma to get them to pass. The newest releases seem to most times fail with just linux mediacheck.
Try making the media after padding the iso image with about 300k of zeros. When you search the archives (there is a search - I'll mention below) there are a couple of threads about this.
I have tried linux ide=nodma and linux text ide=nodma after trying linux and linux text
Anaconda fails on both CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 in all cases.
With only 512MB or ram you will have to use text mode only, IIRC. Also in the archives. There's also some threads that mention noacpi, acpi=no and some other stuff I can't recall.
The system I am trying to install on is running CentOS 3.x.
The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive.
Please provide any options to the kernel that I should try besides the ones mentioned above that fail.
<snip>
For your google searches, go to the advanced section and specify centos.org. That gets what's in the archives. To search directly from CentOS site, click "Search" on http://centos.org/
HTH,
On 3/10/09, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 16:37 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
I used google but did not come up with anything current to solve my problem. I have not tried any other search engines yet. There is not a search for the CentOS list so I am creating a new post.
Using Google to search you can begin with: "site:centos.org" and then your search terms
<snip>
With only 512MB or ram you will have to use text mode only, IIRC. Also in the archives. There's also some threads that mention noacpi, acpi=no and some other stuff I can't recall.
I have installed CentOS 5.2 (32 bit) using the graphical install on a box with 384 MB of RAM. Slow, but it worked. My daughters box is a P4 1.6 GHz with 384 MB of RAM. It will install with 512 MB of RAM, more happily. Wife's box and mine have 512 MB of RAM.
The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive.
Have you tried the CentOS LiveCD on that HW, to see if everything will work properly? I haven't had to use any special parameters, to get the graphical installs to work on our old Desktop boxes. If it won't go with the LiveCD, try another version....
Lanny Marcus wrote:
On 3/10/09, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 16:37 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
I used google but did not come up with anything current to solve my problem. I have not tried any other search engines yet. There is not a search for the CentOS list so I am creating a new post.
Using Google to search you can begin with: "site:centos.org" and then your search terms
<snip>
With only 512MB or ram you will have to use text mode only, IIRC. Also in the archives. There's also some threads that mention noacpi, acpi=no and some other stuff I can't recall.
I have installed CentOS 5.2 (32 bit) using the graphical install on a box with 384 MB of RAM. Slow, but it worked. My daughters box is a P4 1.6 GHz with 384 MB of RAM. It will install with 512 MB of RAM, more happily. Wife's box and mine have 512 MB of RAM.
The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive.
Have you tried the CentOS LiveCD on that HW, to see if everything will work properly? I haven't had to use any special parameters, to get the graphical installs to work on our old Desktop boxes. If it won't go with the LiveCD, try another version.... _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
The system works properly with the LiveCD. GUI and network come up fine. No kernel options needed.
William L. Maltby wrote:
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 16:37 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
I used google but did not come up with anything current to solve my problem. I have not tried any other search engines yet. There is not a search for the CentOS list so I am creating a new post.
See below - it's really hard to find.
I have tested the CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 CD's and they passed. I had to use linux mediacheck ide=nodma to get them to pass. The newest releases seem to most times fail with just linux mediacheck.
Try making the media after padding the iso image with about 300k of zeros. When you search the archives (there is a search - I'll mention below) there are a couple of threads about this.
I have tried linux ide=nodma and linux text ide=nodma after trying linux and linux text
Anaconda fails on both CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 in all cases.
With only 512MB or ram you will have to use text mode only, IIRC. Also in the archives. There's also some threads that mention noacpi, acpi=no and some other stuff I can't recall.
The system I am trying to install on is running CentOS 3.x.
The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive.
Please provide any options to the kernel that I should try besides the ones mentioned above that fail.
<snip>
For your google searches, go to the advanced section and specify centos.org. That gets what's in the archives. To search directly from CentOS site, click "Search" on http://centos.org/
HTH,
The system I am trying to install on boot with out problems or errors on the 5.2 Live CD. Gui works Firefox and Network work
I tried the options mentioned and more and get the same errors. They are:
Starting graphical installation ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 900, in ? iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py". line 264, in makeDriveDeviceNodes isys.makeDevinode(device, "dev /%s" % (device,)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda.isys.py", line 422, inmakeDevInode _isys.mkdevinode(name,fn) SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory') install exited abnormally [1/1] sending termination signals ... done
The RHEL 5.3 boot disk is the same as above except the line 900 is 924.
I have tried text and GUI and ide=nodma pci=noacpi with both.
on 3-11-2009 1:44 PM Michael Peterson spake the following:
William L. Maltby wrote:
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 16:37 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
I used google but did not come up with anything current to solve my problem. I have not tried any other search engines yet. There is not a search for the CentOS list so I am creating a new post.
See below - it's really hard to find.
I have tested the CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 CD's and they passed. I had to use linux mediacheck ide=nodma to get them to pass. The newest releases seem to most times fail with just linux mediacheck.
Try making the media after padding the iso image with about 300k of zeros. When you search the archives (there is a search - I'll mention below) there are a couple of threads about this.
I have tried linux ide=nodma and linux text ide=nodma after trying linux and linux text
Anaconda fails on both CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 in all cases.
With only 512MB or ram you will have to use text mode only, IIRC. Also in the archives. There's also some threads that mention noacpi, acpi=no and some other stuff I can't recall.
The system I am trying to install on is running CentOS 3.x.
The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive.
Please provide any options to the kernel that I should try besides the ones mentioned above that fail.
<snip>
For your google searches, go to the advanced section and specify centos.org. That gets what's in the archives. To search directly from CentOS site, click "Search" on http://centos.org/
HTH,
The system I am trying to install on boot with out problems or errors on the 5.2 Live CD. Gui works Firefox and Network work
I tried the options mentioned and more and get the same errors. They are:
Starting graphical installation ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 900, in ? iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py". line 264, in makeDriveDeviceNodes isys.makeDevinode(device, "dev /%s" % (device,)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda.isys.py", line 422, inmakeDevInode _isys.mkdevinode(name,fn) SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory') install exited abnormally [1/1] sending termination signals ... done
The RHEL 5.3 boot disk is the same as above except the line 900 is 924.
I have tried text and GUI and ide=nodma pci=noacpi with both.
Can you see and write to the hard disks with the Live CD?
Scott Silva wrote:
on 3-11-2009 1:44 PM Michael Peterson spake the following:
William L. Maltby wrote:
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 16:37 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
I used google but did not come up with anything current to solve my problem. I have not tried any other search engines yet. There is not a search for the CentOS list so I am creating a new post.
See below - it's really hard to find.
I have tested the CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 CD's and they passed. I had to use linux mediacheck ide=nodma to get them to pass. The newest releases seem to most times fail with just linux mediacheck.
Try making the media after padding the iso image with about 300k of zeros. When you search the archives (there is a search - I'll mention below) there are a couple of threads about this.
I have tried linux ide=nodma and linux text ide=nodma after trying linux and linux text
Anaconda fails on both CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 in all cases.
With only 512MB or ram you will have to use text mode only, IIRC. Also in the archives. There's also some threads that mention noacpi, acpi=no and some other stuff I can't recall.
The system I am trying to install on is running CentOS 3.x.
The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive.
Please provide any options to the kernel that I should try besides the ones mentioned above that fail.
<snip>
For your google searches, go to the advanced section and specify centos.org. That gets what's in the archives. To search directly from CentOS site, click "Search" on http://centos.org/
HTH,
The system I am trying to install on boot with out problems or errors on the 5.2 Live CD. Gui works Firefox and Network work
I tried the options mentioned and more and get the same errors. They are:
Starting graphical installation ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 900, in ? iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py". line 264, in makeDriveDeviceNodes isys.makeDevinode(device, "dev /%s" % (device,)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda.isys.py", line 422, inmakeDevInode _isys.mkdevinode(name,fn) SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory') install exited abnormally [1/1] sending termination signals ... done
The RHEL 5.3 boot disk is the same as above except the line 900 is 924.
I have tried text and GUI and ide=nodma pci=noacpi with both.
Can you see and write to the hard disks with the Live CD?
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
The Live CD can see and access the 3ware RAID connected drives. It is using the swap partition. I was able to switch to root and remount a file system read-write and copy files from one mount point to another. I then deleted the files with no problem.
I will try to boot CentOS 5.1 CD 1 on Monday and see what results I get.
Michael Peterson wrote:
Scott Silva wrote:
on 3-11-2009 1:44 PM Michael Peterson spake the following:
William L. Maltby wrote:
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 16:37 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
I used google but did not come up with anything current to solve my problem. I have not tried any other search engines yet. There is not a search for the CentOS list so I am creating a new post.
See below - it's really hard to find.
I have tested the CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 CD's and they passed. I had to use linux mediacheck ide=nodma to get them to pass. The newest releases seem to most times fail with just linux mediacheck.
Try making the media after padding the iso image with about 300k of zeros. When you search the archives (there is a search - I'll mention below) there are a couple of threads about this.
I have tried linux ide=nodma and linux text ide=nodma after trying linux and linux text
Anaconda fails on both CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 in all cases.
With only 512MB or ram you will have to use text mode only, IIRC. Also in the archives. There's also some threads that mention noacpi, acpi=no and some other stuff I can't recall.
The system I am trying to install on is running CentOS 3.x.
The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive.
Please provide any options to the kernel that I should try besides the ones mentioned above that fail.
<snip>
For your google searches, go to the advanced section and specify centos.org. That gets what's in the archives. To search directly from CentOS site, click "Search" on http://centos.org/
HTH,
The system I am trying to install on boot with out problems or errors on the 5.2 Live CD. Gui works Firefox and Network work
I tried the options mentioned and more and get the same errors. They are:
Starting graphical installation ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 900, in ? iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py". line 264, in makeDriveDeviceNodes isys.makeDevinode(device, "dev /%s" % (device,)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda.isys.py", line 422, inmakeDevInode _isys.mkdevinode(name,fn) SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory') install exited abnormally [1/1] sending termination signals ... done
The RHEL 5.3 boot disk is the same as above except the line 900 is 924.
I have tried text and GUI and ide=nodma pci=noacpi with both.
Can you see and write to the hard disks with the Live CD?
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
The Live CD can see and access the 3ware RAID connected drives. It is using the swap partition. I was able to switch to root and remount a file system read-write and copy files from one mount point to another. I then deleted the files with no problem.
I will try to boot CentOS 5.1 CD 1 on Monday and see what results I get.
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
CentOS 5.1 NetInstall CD or CD1 both error out with the same results as 5.2 in anaconda.
CentOS 4.4 CD 1 which uses the older style install method boots and looks like it could install on the system.
I would really like to get CentOS 5.2 or 5.3 installed on the system if there is a work around.
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 15:21 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
I would really like to get CentOS 5.2 or 5.3 installed on the system if there is a work around.
--- What are you using to burn the CDs? How old is the CD Drive that your are using to install? How old is the cable? Last thing strip it down to the bare minimum harwdare and install?
JohnStanley
JohnS wrote:
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 15:21 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
I would really like to get CentOS 5.2 or 5.3 installed on the system if there is a work around.
What are you using to burn the CDs? How old is the CD Drive that your are using to install? How old is the cable? Last thing strip it down to the bare minimum harwdare and install?
JohnStanley
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I burned the CD images on Windows using Roxio and an AOpen DVD Read/ CDRW drive.
The burned CD's test fine in more than one system. I do have to test them with ide=nodma to get them to pass.
The CD Drive and IDE Cable on the system I am trying to install is 5 years old.
I searched the CentOS site and mailing list for similar issues and found one dating back to last year. The anaconda errors were similar.
I finally got 5.2 to install and the fix was to tell the kernel to ignore the ide tape device. The tape drive is on hdd and the following allowed me to do a GUI install with 512 MB.
linux ide=nodma hdd=none
I thought I would post my result so that this request for help could be closed.
Thanks for having this list to provide the avenue to a solution.
Michael Peterson wrote: ...
I burned the CD images on Windows using Roxio and an AOpen DVD Read/ CDRW drive.
The burned CD's test fine in more than one system. I do have to test them with ide=nodma to get them to pass.
The CD Drive and IDE Cable on the system I am trying to install is 5 years old.
I searched the CentOS site and mailing list for similar issues and found one dating back to last year. The anaconda errors were similar.
I finally got 5.2 to install and the fix was to tell the kernel to ignore the ide tape device. The tape drive is on hdd and the following allowed me to do a GUI install with 512 MB.
linux ide=nodma hdd=none
I thought I would post my result so that this request for help could be closed.
Thanks for having this list to provide the avenue to a solution.
Thanks for posting the solution for posterity to close it out. BTW - I think it is a convention to add "SOLVED" in the subject to indicate closure.
Phil
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 14:15 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
JohnS wrote:
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 15:21 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
I would really like to get CentOS 5.2 or 5.3 installed on the system if there is a work around.
What are you using to burn the CDs? How old is the CD Drive that your are using to install? How old is the cable? Last thing strip it down to the bare minimum harwdare and install?
JohnStanley
I burned the CD images on Windows using Roxio and an AOpen DVD Read/ CDRW drive.
The burned CD's test fine in more than one system. I do have to test them with ide=nodma to get them to pass.
The CD Drive and IDE Cable on the system I am trying to install is 5 years old.
I searched the CentOS site and mailing list for similar issues and found one dating back to last year. The anaconda errors were similar.
I finally got 5.2 to install and the fix was to tell the kernel to ignore the ide tape device. The tape drive is on hdd and the following allowed me to do a GUI install with 512 MB.
linux ide=nodma hdd=none
Just currious does the tape drive work since install? Would like like to know the brand of it also for reference.
I thought I would post my result so that this request for help could be closed.
Thanks for having this list to provide the avenue to a solution.
JohnStanley
I am looking for a list of services that you disable by default on your server.
Here is what I am disabling so far.
avahi-daemon bluetooth cups firstboot haldaemon hidd hplip ip6tables isdn messagebus pcscd rpcgssd rpcidmapd sendmail xfs xinetd yum-updatesd
Thanks for any input you provide! Martin
I am looking for a list of services that you disable by default on your server.
what kind of server? smtp server? pop/imap server? proxy server? web server? ftp server? logging server? voip gateway? firewall? rpm build box? swipe card reader server? development/source repo server? LDAP, NFS?
or are you looking for a set of things that we disable by default on all servers? At which point I question your choice of removing sendmail (unless you're replacing it with something like exim or postfix) because most servers need to send mail, even if it's just to alert you when a cron job has barfed.
personally I disable, or don't install SE Linux, Network Manager (with extreme prejudice), and anything to do with wireless/bluetooth, and X on every single server.
From there it depends on what the server is doing.
We've got a Kickstart server and boot off USB sticks and CDs that allow us to pick generic build types off a menu (eg; web server, smtp server, mail storage server, etc). The kickstart config just pulls down the packages we want, a few scripts get run doing various things like updating all packages, setting up our distributed config system, installing custom packages, and so on.
However, I don't see the usefulness in seeing what other people disable. Everybody has different networks, different requirements, and does different things on their boxes. What you should be doing is looking at *your* servers and itemising what they do. Then remove all packages that are not needed to provide those services.
My question was targeted at minimal install that I could start with bare bones. Just what you need to run the os. I would use it to build the rest of my kickstarts with adding the needed services for webservers, databases, etc. I see the usefulness it for example You can pretty much say that everyone with a server build does not need Bluetooth and that most people are going to want syslog running. Thanks for the input! I do see your point about looking at my servers. Martin
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Spiro Harvey Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 1:40 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Looking for a list of default services to disable in centos 5
I am looking for a list of services that you disable by default on your server.
what kind of server? smtp server? pop/imap server? proxy server? web server? ftp server? logging server? voip gateway? firewall? rpm build box? swipe card reader server? development/source repo server? LDAP, NFS?
or are you looking for a set of things that we disable by default on all servers? At which point I question your choice of removing sendmail (unless you're replacing it with something like exim or postfix) because most servers need to send mail, even if it's just to alert you when a cron job has barfed.
personally I disable, or don't install SE Linux, Network Manager (with extreme prejudice), and anything to do with wireless/bluetooth, and X on every single server.
From there it depends on what the server is doing.
We've got a Kickstart server and boot off USB sticks and CDs that allow us to pick generic build types off a menu (eg; web server, smtp server, mail storage server, etc). The kickstart config just pulls down the packages we want, a few scripts get run doing various things like updating all packages, setting up our distributed config system, installing custom packages, and so on.
However, I don't see the usefulness in seeing what other people disable. Everybody has different networks, different requirements, and does different things on their boxes. What you should be doing is looking at *your* servers and itemising what they do. Then remove all packages that are not needed to provide those services.
At Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:39:55 +1300 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
I am looking for a list of services that you disable by default on your server.
what kind of server? smtp server? pop/imap server? proxy server? web server? ftp server? logging server? voip gateway? firewall? rpm build box? swipe card reader server? development/source repo server? LDAP, NFS?
or are you looking for a set of things that we disable by default on all servers? At which point I question your choice of removing sendmail (unless you're replacing it with something like exim or postfix) because most servers need to send mail, even if it's just to alert you when a cron job has barfed.
There are two options here: whether the service(s) are listening only on 127.0.0.1 (internal IP loopback) or on both 127.0.0.1 AND eth? IP address (external IP access). I *suspect* the OP is talking about this rather than not installing and/or starting various deamons. Of cource, some services make no sense listening only on 127.0.0.1 (eg FTP or SSH), but many do (SMTP, DB backend, CUPS, etc.) and in some cases you really need them running, even if they are only listening on 127.0.0.1 (some sort of SMTP server for example if not sendmail, then something else).
personally I disable, or don't install SE Linux, Network Manager (with extreme prejudice), and anything to do with wireless/bluetooth, and X on every single server.
From there it depends on what the server is doing.
We've got a Kickstart server and boot off USB sticks and CDs that allow us to pick generic build types off a menu (eg; web server, smtp server, mail storage server, etc). The kickstart config just pulls down the packages we want, a few scripts get run doing various things like updating all packages, setting up our distributed config system, installing custom packages, and so on.
However, I don't see the usefulness in seeing what other people disable. Everybody has different networks, different requirements, and does different things on their boxes. What you should be doing is looking at *your* servers and itemising what they do. Then remove all packages that are not needed to provide those services.
Or in some cases making sure they are only listening on the local loopback device and NOT the external network device(s). Or if they are listening on some external network device(s), only on the ones they should be listening on (i.e. if your server is a router for a NAT or something like that).
Martin Suehowicz wrote:
I am looking for a list of services that you disable by default on your server.
For the packages I install on my systems this is what I disable by default on CentOS 5.2 in kickstart -
cat <<EOF; ############################################################################### ## Turn off unneeded services in advance ## ############################################################################### EOF
export SERVICES="anacron atd auditd avahi-daemon cpuspeed cups gpm haldaemon ip6tables iptables iscsi iscsid iscsid kudzu lm_sensors mcstrans mdmonitor mess agebus pcscd readahead_early restorecond rpcgssd rpcidmapd xfs yum-updatesd"
for service in $SERVICES; do chkconfig --level 12345 $service off; chkconfig --list $service; done
For CentOS 4.6 -
cat <<EOF; ############################################################################### ## Turn off unneeded services in advance ## ############################################################################### EOF
export SERVICES="anacron atd auditd autofs cpuspeed cups gpm haldaemon iptables kudzu lm_sensors mdmonitor messagebus rawdevices rhnsd rpcgssd rpcidmapd xfs "
for service in $SERVICES; do chkconfig --level 12345 $service off; chkconfig --list $service; done
Depending on what the server does, the service may get re-enabled again automatically by cfengine after the system boots up, of the services above the only one I recall that ever gets re-enabled is iscsi(only on a few systems). I also have cfengine force shut down all of those services every day at around 2PM in case someone were to start one up by accident and forget about it.
Of course there are many more services available in CentOS, the above just comes from the package list I install.
nate
JohnS wrote:
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 14:15 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
JohnS wrote:
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 15:21 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
I would really like to get CentOS 5.2 or 5.3 installed on the system if there is a work around.
What are you using to burn the CDs? How old is the CD Drive that your are using to install? How old is the cable? Last thing strip it down to the bare minimum harwdare and install?
JohnStanley
I burned the CD images on Windows using Roxio and an AOpen DVD Read/ CDRW drive.
The burned CD's test fine in more than one system. I do have to test them with ide=nodma to get them to pass.
The CD Drive and IDE Cable on the system I am trying to install is 5 years old.
I searched the CentOS site and mailing list for similar issues and found one dating back to last year. The anaconda errors were similar.
I finally got 5.2 to install and the fix was to tell the kernel to ignore the ide tape device. The tape drive is on hdd and the following allowed me to do a GUI install with 512 MB.
linux ide=nodma hdd=none
Just currious does the tape drive work since install? Would like like to know the brand of it also for reference.
I thought I would post my result so that this request for help could be closed.
Thanks for having this list to provide the avenue to a solution.
JohnStanley
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I have used mt and cpio to access the tape drive with and they work fine.
The tape drive is an ECRIX VXA-1a ATAPI TAPE drive.
on 3-27-2009 1:07 PM Michael Peterson spake the following:
JohnS wrote:
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 14:15 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
JohnS wrote:
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 15:21 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
I would really like to get CentOS 5.2 or 5.3 installed on the system if there is a work around.
What are you using to burn the CDs? How old is the CD Drive that your are using to install? How old is the cable? Last thing strip it down to the bare minimum harwdare and install?
JohnStanley
I burned the CD images on Windows using Roxio and an AOpen DVD Read/ CDRW drive.
The burned CD's test fine in more than one system. I do have to test them with ide=nodma to get them to pass.
The CD Drive and IDE Cable on the system I am trying to install is 5 years old.
I searched the CentOS site and mailing list for similar issues and found one dating back to last year. The anaconda errors were similar.
I finally got 5.2 to install and the fix was to tell the kernel to ignore the ide tape device. The tape drive is on hdd and the following allowed me to do a GUI install with 512 MB.
linux ide=nodma hdd=none
Just currious does the tape drive work since install? Would like like to know the brand of it also for reference.
I thought I would post my result so that this request for help could be closed.
Thanks for having this list to provide the avenue to a solution.
JohnStanley
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I have used mt and cpio to access the tape drive with and they work fine.
The tape drive is an ECRIX VXA-1a ATAPI TAPE drive.
It must resemble a hard drive just enough to confuse the installer.
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 15:10 -0700, Scott Silva wrote:
on 3-27-2009 1:07 PM Michael Peterson spake the following:
JohnS wrote:
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 14:15 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
JohnS wrote:
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 15:21 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
I would really like to get CentOS 5.2 or 5.3 installed on the system if there is a work around.
What are you using to burn the CDs? How old is the CD Drive that your are using to install? How old is the cable? Last thing strip it down to the bare minimum harwdare and install?
JohnStanley
I burned the CD images on Windows using Roxio and an AOpen DVD Read/ CDRW drive.
The burned CD's test fine in more than one system. I do have to test them with ide=nodma to get them to pass.
The CD Drive and IDE Cable on the system I am trying to install is 5 years old.
I searched the CentOS site and mailing list for similar issues and found one dating back to last year. The anaconda errors were similar.
I finally got 5.2 to install and the fix was to tell the kernel to ignore the ide tape device. The tape drive is on hdd and the following allowed me to do a GUI install with 512 MB.
linux ide=nodma hdd=none
Just currious does the tape drive work since install? Would like like to know the brand of it also for reference.
I thought I would post my result so that this request for help could be closed.
Thanks for having this list to provide the avenue to a solution.
JohnStanley
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I have used mt and cpio to access the tape drive with and they work fine.
The tape drive is an ECRIX VXA-1a ATAPI TAPE drive.
It must resemble a hard drive just enough to confuse the installer.
-- That's why I wondered and wanted to know. Seems like BSD has the same problem with the same tape drive.
JohnStanley
On Mar 11, 2009, at 4:44 PM, Michael Peterson <mpeterson@mail.charlesfurniture.com
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William L. Maltby wrote:
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 16:37 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
I used google but did not come up with anything current to solve my problem. I have not tried any other search engines yet. There is not a search for the CentOS list so I am creating a new post.
See below - it's really hard to find.
I have tested the CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 CD's and they passed. I had to use linux mediacheck ide=nodma to get them to pass. The newest releases seem to most times fail with just linux mediacheck.
Try making the media after padding the iso image with about 300k of zeros. When you search the archives (there is a search - I'll mention below) there are a couple of threads about this.
I have tried linux ide=nodma and linux text ide=nodma after trying linux and linux text
Anaconda fails on both CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 in all cases.
With only 512MB or ram you will have to use text mode only, IIRC. Also in the archives. There's also some threads that mention noacpi, acpi=no and some other stuff I can't recall.
The system I am trying to install on is running CentOS 3.x.
The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive.
Please provide any options to the kernel that I should try besides the ones mentioned above that fail.
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For your google searches, go to the advanced section and specify centos.org. That gets what's in the archives. To search directly from CentOS site, click "Search" on http://centos.org/
HTH,
The system I am trying to install on boot with out problems or errors on the 5.2 Live CD. Gui works Firefox and Network work
I tried the options mentioned and more and get the same errors. They are:
Starting graphical installation ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 900, in ? iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py". line 264, in makeDriveDeviceNodes isys.makeDevinode(device, "dev /%s" % (device,)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda.isys.py", line 422, inmakeDevInode _isys.mkdevinode(name,fn) SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory') install exited abnormally [1/1] sending termination signals ... done
The RHEL 5.3 boot disk is the same as above except the line 900 is 924.
I have tried text and GUI and ide=nodma pci=noacpi with both.
Make sure "Install Mode" is disabled in the BIOS as it will limit memory to 256MB in some machines which will make GUI install bork.
-Ross
Linux Advocate wrote:
The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive.
if you could install centos 3 on this hardware, then centos 5.x should work...any error messages from the console?
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Yes, there are several error messages when anaconda fails before it says the system can be restarted. I will try the acpi suggestion and if that fails I will take down the anaconda lines from both fails and submit them for review. On a Core 2 Quad HP server I had to provide many kernel parameters to get CentOS 5.2 to install but RHEL 5.3 went up without a hitch. Hopefully CentOS 5.3 once released is close enough to RHEL 5.3 with the CentOS changes that it will work on newer equipment better also. I plan to use it as a teaching and production OS at my jobs.
Michael Peterson wrote:
The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive.
probably more important than any of the data you've given there is, what chipset on the mainboard, which 3ware card, and what dual NIC chips ?
John R Pierce wrote:
Michael Peterson wrote:
The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive.
probably more important than any of the data you've given there is, what chipset on the mainboard, which 3ware card, and what dual NIC chips ?
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The Live CD of 5.2 works with out kernel parameters and gives no errors but the install CD will not boot GUI or Text.
The Chipset is Intel. The 3ware card is Escalade 7000-2 The NIC chips are both internal Intel 82557 Pro 100 as per the Live CD hwconf file.
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