now i want to remove to due to upgrade the system using the latest centos system, but now i cant remove it, try to format my desktop also cannot. when im entering the bios its show GNU GRUB. im also need to install xp for my new study project..
i find this is an issue which might be tiresome for everyone except for those experts. Esp. for the computers which are dual booting(both windows xp and centos installed in the same computer), that when we are in CentOS we need to switch onto windows immediately. and vice versa. i see this is possible only by shutting down the centos/windows and then restarting onto the other OS.
Can anyone tell me the the solution to work simultaneously both xp and centos without the need of shutting down and restarting There maybe or may not be the solution...but i find the pleasure to know if there is for example, remote desktop connection in windows xp, is there any solution, we can work on windows via centos or vice versa ( in the same machine),
I am trying to install CentOS 5.2 on an HP rp5700 desktop unit. These units were originally sold as a Point of Sales unit I believe, but HP also markets it as a high life cycle server for SMB market.I tried to load CentOS on this unit via CD (created from downloaded ISO of course). It presents the initial CentOS banner page and waits for the obligatory "enter" to continue. It begins the boot process up to discovering the PCI stuff and just locks up, no response. I have to power down to restart.Since this does not even get to the point of installing. I am at a loss what to do next. Has anyone had a similar issue with other PCs.The boot stops at the lineACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
My Dell poweredge server running CentOS 5.4 and booting kernel-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5. All boot processes seem okay and the graphical screens for CentOS operate, but just before the desktop loads the screen goes blank and the arrow/cursor is being circled by small spheres. This remains indefinitely. While the arrow is being circled, here are the results of 'getinfo.sh device'
Quote:==================== BEGIN uname -rmi ==================== 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 i686 i386 ==================== END uname -rmi ====================
I'm currently in the last steps of migrating a CentOS mailserver to the x64 version.However, under the old 32 bit version, I was using XRDP to access the Centos box from my Windows boxes.However I can't seem to find the XRDP package in the standard repos so this is prompting me to look at possible alternatives (XRDP was incompatible with my windows 7 box anyway soI had to RDP to another server of ours running 2003 to RDP into the mailserver which was far from ideal).Basically, I'd like to be able to seamlessly access the Centos box with a standard RDP client.
I know VNC Server/Clients would be an option but RDP gives me the freedom of any windows box being able to access the server on the same adress/port without installing software on any windows box I encounter.Are there any viable alternatives to XRDP ?There's no "add-on" to VNC server that could enable it to accept RDP connections ?
I am running Centos VM on Windows Virtual PC. I have installed the GNOME desktop environment using yum groupinstall 'X Window System' 'GNOME Desktop Environment'and then when i did gave startx command, the desktop environment was not at all clear. As I am new to this, i am not sure how to use it too.
I don't want to disable it... I want to completely remove it, so it doesn't sneak back later. I don't see a yum --removerepo and Googling leads to instructions to disable.
I have done an initial CentOS install. I've now found out that the driver that I want to install (nVidia for GPU support) will not support the Xen feature that I installed. I'd like to avoid having to re-install completely. Is there a way to remove the Xen support that is documented somewhere?
If I do a fresh 'netinst' of CentOS 5.4 x64 on a server, what is the correct way to verify that no 32-bit packages were installed or mixed in with x64? Also can someone tell me if it is safe to remove those 32-bit RPM packages? I searched the Wiki for 'Post Install Tips' and could not find anything there or on Google.
I am using CentOS 5.5. After upgrading i have at present 4 kernels in the menu.lst.If i try to remove any kernel, 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.i686 via Package Manager, i am told that i am removing critical software for system functionality etc. How delete older kernels?
Problems with xen 3.1.2 creating and installing domU CentOS 5.5 I am trying to do a virt-install --prompt --paravirt, and the install error out while trying to download install RPMs. I have googled for xen centos virt-install and various permutations. I have found similar howtos for 5.4 and 5.3, but they resulted in the same outcome. I did find several posts with similar issues, but no solution was posted.[URL]..
I am in the process of building a new server on an Asus P5QPL-AM motherboard and an Intel E8600 processor.explain to me the difference between the two versions and what would you recommend.Also, is there any advantage of SATA over IDE hard drives?
I have installed CentOS 5.2 and tried to click on the application => add/remove software
I get some error saying Unable to retrieve software information.
Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repositoryc5-media.
What I did wat disable the repository manager and unchecked c5-media.
This is the only one I can see at the repository manager screen.
Then I restarted application => add/remove software
The screen came out.
But I am expecting a similar screen as CentOS 3 or 4 which display the package management by group of Desktop, Application, Servers, Development, System.
From here I could know what I have installed and what I have not.
I am currently running the xen (64 bit) kernel, but want to move to the non xen kernel(64 bit) while retaining my carefully crafted system. I tried this once before by unticking the "virtualisation" and it removed the xen kernel, leaving me with nothing to boot from.
I'm installing CentOS from the netinstall in Virtualbox now. I was about to post a different thread because Anaconda kept crashing on me. Whenever I would try to uncheck Gnome, clicking next would always fail. I really don't want Gnome, but I need to get the VM installed, so I just accepted the default software selection. (It's not an iso problem either because I originally tried the DVD as well.)I've been using Linux for several years, but I need to use a GUI-less server. I found some instructions on how to disable X by entering runlevel 3, but that's not what I want to do. Is there a meta-package that I can remove "yum remove" and it will remove all the GUI dependencies, or perhaps something like "yum groupremove"?
The reason I want to delete the LUKS password is simply that I do not want to have to put it in for each server just to get the system to boot. I am planning to cluster the servers as well and like I said before I don't want to put the password in each time since they won't be running all the time.
I installed Xen package on a CentOS 5.3 x86_64. After a reboot I found the virbr0 bridge configured by default. I guess that "virbr0" is the name used conventionally by Red Hat to indicate the first bridge. In other Xen installations usually it would have named "xenbr0". I did not find in which configuration or script file it was created. How is it possible to remove that "virbr0" bridge?
What is 'java-1.4.2-gcj-compact package' Is this a JDK or just JRE?
I want to remove 'java-1.4.2-gcj-compact' package and install sun's JDK1.6. But lots of other packages depends on 'java-1.4.2-gcj-compact'. How should I go ahead.
I'm using x86_64 CentOS 5.4. There are some 32bit applications on my system. Does these applications work on 64bit platform. If not, how can I remove these applications without harming my system.
I'm running CentOS 5.4 in combination with DirectAdmin, and I'm wondering: Is it safe to remove /media and /opt directory?Because those directories /media and /opt are empty.
Running # lsmod | grep -e " 0 " | wc on one of my servers running CentOS 5.5 (64 bits) reports me 32 unused modules, I mean, modules with 0 references. Am I wrong interpreting these results? If I'm not, how can I automatically clean those unused modules (i.e not manually running modprobe -r ). Some years ago there used to be a daemon called kerneld who was in charge of that task, right? What's CentOS new equivalent?