Had some trouble getting Centos x64 installed as a guest in my new Centos 5.5 x64 server using Xen (thanks again for all the help getting the hardware virtualization turned on and confirmed yesterday!).
When I chose OS Linux, and whatever they called the detailed OS subtype I chose the Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 and greater, and then tried to install Centos 5.5, the install started and I got into the graphics installer, but when it was supposed to start installing individual packages the whole virt-manager and console window hung. Three times, at that same point. (I was monitoring web traffic to the install files it was working from, and it wasn't fetching files, either).
When I selected just "RHEL 5", it installed (and I'm now running the package updater, and it may have hung there; we'll see).
I would have expected the rhel 5.4 and greater option to be the right one for Centos 5.5. Anybody have similar experiences? Or, even more interesting, contrary experiences?
David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
Had some trouble getting Centos x64 installed as a guest in my new Centos 5.5 x64 server using Xen (thanks again for all the help getting the hardware virtualization turned on and confirmed yesterday!).
When I chose OS Linux, and whatever they called the detailed OS subtype I chose the Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 and greater, and then tried to install Centos 5.5, the install started and I got into the graphics installer, but when it was supposed to start installing individual packages the whole virt-manager and console window hung. Three times, at that same point. (I was monitoring web traffic to the install files it was working from, and it wasn't fetching files, either).
Don't look at me - I never use the graphical one; I always start the installer with "linux text", and I think I can get to some things easier. IIRC, you can also <alt-F2> or something, and get another shell prompt.
mark
In using virt-install, and then virt-viewer to create a CentOS 5.5 x64 guest (in my case for KVM), using the text mode for the install, it failed on me in a similar way just if I added extra package groups - just stalled. It went forward successfully if I just went with the standard default at that point, and waited until post-install to yum other components into the guest.
Whit
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:57:24AM -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
Had some trouble getting Centos x64 installed as a guest in my new Centos 5.5 x64 server using Xen (thanks again for all the help getting the hardware virtualization turned on and confirmed yesterday!).
When I chose OS Linux, and whatever they called the detailed OS subtype I chose the Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 and greater, and then tried to install Centos 5.5, the install started and I got into the graphics installer, but when it was supposed to start installing individual packages the whole virt-manager and console window hung. Three times, at that same point. (I was monitoring web traffic to the install files it was working from, and it wasn't fetching files, either).
Don't look at me - I never use the graphical one; I always start the installer with "linux text", and I think I can get to some things easier. IIRC, you can also <alt-F2> or something, and get another shell prompt.
mark
On Thu, July 15, 2010 11:19, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
In using virt-install, and then virt-viewer to create a CentOS 5.5 x64 guest (in my case for KVM), using the text mode for the install, it failed on me in a similar way just if I added extra package groups - just stalled. It went forward successfully if I just went with the standard default at that point, and waited until post-install to yum other components into the guest.
That may be the relevant variable in my case as well; I'll watch more carefully. I did get a >5.5 OS install to work, and I may have selected only the "server" group instead of that and the "server gui" group.
I'm mostly happy using text configs, except I keep running into cases where the manuals or helpful people on the net assume I'm using the GUI, so I've gotten in the habit of installing it when I get a choice.
Whit Blauvelt wrote:
In using virt-install, and then virt-viewer to create a CentOS 5.5 x64 guest (in my case for KVM), using the text mode for the install, it failed on me in a similar way just if I added extra package groups - just stalled. It went forward successfully if I just went with the standard default at that point, and waited until post-install to yum other components into the guest.
Ok, that works. *shrug* You should see the loong list of stuff I have to do when I build a new system, including a lot of additional packages, and editing (such as for nfs mounting of home directories, and mail....)
mark
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