I have downloaded the following CentOS 5.5 DVD iso files and burn the same using Nero Express:
1. CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso (4.09 GB)
2. CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-2of2.iso (412 MB)
I am trying installing it on a Dell Vostro 1400 laptop. I could boot the machine successfully with the DVD 01. After selecting the Installation method as "Local CDROM" it says: CD Not Found. The CentOS CD was not found in any of your CDROM drives. Please insert the CentOS CD and press OK to retry and it ejects the DVD in a splash. I tried mounting the DVD in a DVD drives in Windows XP SP2 and it is showing the content correctly. I also tried mounting the iso file with PowerISO Virtual Drive manager in Windows XP SP2 and it is mounting well.
I tried many times but of no success. Earlier I tried the following also (before downloading the DVD image files):
1. I successfully installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Edition on the same machine.
2. The same machine is also working fine with CentOS 5.5 Live CD.
I am trying to install gnome desktop on centos 5 vps. I am getting the following error when i ran this command yum groupinstall �GNOME Desktop Environment� to install gnome it gave me this error and i dont know wat to do now. i am able to connect to my server through vncviewer but the GUI is not working so the screen is black. Here is the error i am getting when trying to install gnome.
---> Package openjade.i386 0:1.3.2-27 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: libosp.so.5 for package: openjade ---> Package pyorbit.i386 0:2.14.1-3.el5 set to be updated
i have a server with four hard disk and RAID5 config , i want to install Centos5.5 on this server . while installing it asks me following : 1-use free space 2-remove all linux partition & create default 3-remove all patition and create default i just wont to know which option i should choose.
Can I do a fresh install of CentOS Linux on a remote machine? I have a machine with Windows NT in a remote location. Now I want to use that system as my deployment machine. To proceed with my plan I need to install a Linux OS (have chosen CentOS). The guy there with the machine is not very knowledgeable of the installation process of any OS. So I thought I could install CentOS remotely.how I can achieve this?
I was trying to install Munin on my CentOS VPS via yum, but it showed a few "Missing Dependency" errors which prevented the installation to work. I'm pretty sure all the required Perl packages listed on this page are installed on my server(went through the list one by one using cpan), couldn't figure out what's the issue.
I've used ubuntu n have quite good experience in installing softwares and codecs for Totem n amarock. Its very easy on ubuntu cuz system searches online and finds plugins itself.
Now im using CentOS n i updated the system but still i dont see many softwares on repositories unlike in ubuntu moreover i dont know how to install totem codecs and others. I can't even get terminal commands for getting codecs online.
I have purchased an IBM x336 server. The IBM website says that the server supports Linux. After doing some research, I decided to install CentOS 5.5 on this server. The goal is to use it as a internal web server for testing. My problem lies with the installation process, for some reason Linux does not see my hard drives. The server is equipped with two 36GB hot-swappable SCSI drives. When I get to the screen to choose where to install Linux, it only gives me options to install over a network, which I cannot do, because no hard drives are shown in the list. I have looked through the BIOS but I do not see any settings that would prevent the hard drives from showing. I have been able to boot to CentOS 5.5 using a LiveCD, but even then I still cannot access my hot-swappable SCSI drives.
I have a question for installing centos with domain and ip address.I want to install centos 5.3 at my server which is installed redhat 9.My question is how to sonfigure domain and ip.
I recently purchased a VPS based on CentOS 5.5 and only CentOS is available, One of the problems I have is that I have no experience with this distro at all. I want to install FlexGet [URL] but it depends on either Python version 2.5 or 2.6 which my install has version Python 2.4.3 installed. Now after doing some reading I have seen many post saying if I upgrade Python system wide It may break something else that is needed, and to install it side by side with the older version of Python and point the application to that specific version of Python it needs. The only problem with this is that I haven't got a clue how to do this.
So I was wondering if anyone could put together a very noob friendly guide for me to get the newer Python build installed side by side with the current one and then help me configure FlexGet from the .egg file it comes in installed using the newer version of Python it needs.
i installed squid 2.6 proxy server on centos 5.4,squid performs services very nice but after reboot the system.it shows a just black screen written with " GRUB_ " and held the boot process,tell me what should i do ?
I downloaded the easyids.iso file. Put it on a usbkey tried to boot with it, it didn't work. I put the .iso on a cd and I have the same problem. why can't I boot with the iso?
I have a PC with no option for a keyboard. I have to install the operating systems without a keyboard or mouse.
I have to make a bootable USB stick which can allow me to connect to the PC from my Laptop with a VNC connection, then the complete installation using IP to IP. I did this with the following:
Download [URL] Extract the files of .iso to my laptop Add the manual file in CentOS-6.0-i386-minimal/isolinux/ks.cfg
install lang en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us timezone --utc Europe/Brussels rootpw --iscrypted $6$i5qEWD. selinux --disabled
[Code]....
This allows you to modify your original iso files with the new contents and pack it as one .iso file
Finally load unetbootin and burn to your USB or disk or CD
The installer can't see my raid controller (I assume) as I'm getting the following error:"Error opening /dev/mapper/isw_jbhgjgjj_Vol0: No such device or address"It just sees them as 4 individual drives: sda, sdb, sdc and sdd.Please note that I have set up the RAID 5 in the controller bios interface and the image name is Vol0, which it seems that it tries to load but for some particular reason it can't.I have also tried different bios settings and nothing worked.
My problem is that I'm trying to install CentOS 5.4 x86_64 DVD ISO on Supermicro X7SBI server with installed Adaptec RAID 3405 controller.
I created RAID 5 array and is working fine (adaptec status says Optimal) but I can't install CentOS to that array (1.5TB size).
Whenever I try to install with: linux dd
I'm asked for a driver, which I have downloaded from Adaptec site and extracted contents to USB drive (in installation found as /sba1) which has now a lot of IMG and some ISO files on it.
I try to load (I simplified names) RHEL5.img, CENTOS.img... with x64 names (one exact name: aacraid driverdisk-CentOS-x86_64.img) and I always get the error message: "No devices of the appropriate type were found on this driver disk"
This is going on for a week now and I can't find the right driver or something I'm doing wrong to get install done.
I am trying to install CentOS-DS on version 5.4 x86_64. I cannot get to the Extras repo due to lack of wired Internet access. I have wireless (except to server) and I have big UFD drives.
I need your help urgently. I will shortly install Centos 5 on a HP DL380R05 E5420 Server with two HP 146GB 10k 2.5 SAS HP SP hard disks running hardware RAID-1. I am a newbie on CentOS, please advise me:
1. Do I need a Centos RAID device driver for hardware RAID-1 on the HP DL380R05 E5420 Server? 2. Should I use Centos i386 or Centos x86_64 in this case? Which one: CentOS 5.2 or CentOS 5.3? 3. Does Centos support Embedded NC373i Multifunction Gigabit network cards?
The following is my server's hardware configuration:
HP DL380R05 E5420 2GB Base AP Server(1) Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor E5420 Two Embedded NC373i Multifunction Gigabit / 2 GB (2 x 1 GB) PC2-5300 Fully Buffered DIMMs (DDR2-667)/HP Smart Array P400/256MB Controller /Rack (2U)/Hot Plug Fully Redundant Fans Standard Two HP 146GB 10k 2.5 SAS HP SP HDD HP 1000W IEC C14 Cord RPS Kit
I want to install CentOS from netinstall CD, but it doesn't work for wireless connection, because it just looks up for eth0 connection. Well, I connected server to wired USB connection and it's named eth1. I want to use netinstall CD but using eth1 connection. Is there any way for doing it?
I am having new hardware and IDE driver for that hardware as drive disk image (it8213_centos53.img). CentOS 5.3 installation is working fine with drive disk image at USB and CentOS 5.3 at DVD. Our application uses CentOS 5.3 and we build a custom kick-start ISO for installations. Using that ISO client is going to install on all hardware boxes.
Note while installing : a) No network connection is avalible. b) No USB isavalible. c) No floppy is avalible. d) Only single CD-ROM is avalible.
So, is it possible to build single custom kick-start CentOS 5.3 ISO which contains dirve disk image and entire installation will be done using that image. If so please let me know the steps to build it.
I've been trying to install the Fuppes media server onto CentOS and have had a few difficulties. I had to do a build from the source (svn build 578), then configure, make and make install. So far so good.Once I try to run fuppes, I get the error:[ERROR] Failed to bind socket to : 8.15.7.107:0.The documentation I've searched so far suggests that there is a config file that needs to be set with the appropriate ip address, but the file doesn't exist as the program hasn't started up yet!
I've Got one Problem with My Computer soon after success installation of when the boot-loader ask me to choose OS at CENTOS 5.4, multi boot boot-loader if i choose windows then computer tries to boot windows but fail and give the error message that there is a problem on reading the hard disk, But when i restart it and start with LINUX then computer start successful with no error message, now i do not know what to do cause i need to use Windows and all my programs are in windows..
I'm trying to install CentOS 5.5 on an old Pentium 4 desktop PC I have, which is not being used for much other than being a MTA, and I want to migrate this functionality onto the CentOS platform for stability (Windows is a perpetual nightmare. I partitioned a spare 20GB to experiment with, and I want to install CentOS into here to play around with first so I can move my files around between Windows and CentOS, until I'm happy all of the stuff is gone, then I can scrub the Windows partition and claim the space for CentOS.
So, I've downloaded and burned the DVD and tried to install. I start the install with no args from the main install menu, and the process goes through some probing and then comes up with the "Welcome to CentOS" menu. I go through this, and then it tries to start X Server. It fails, and falls back to text mode. I get the "Welcome to CentOS" screen again, and then proceed through it. I set my keyboard layout to UK, then this message comes up at the bottom of the screen:
"_X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for localhost:6001: Temporary failure in name resolution"
then on the next line: "Cannot open display :1" If I force the install to text, by typing "linux text" at the first menu, I get about the same way through, but the install just hangs doing nothing, and no disc access to the install disc.
I've noticed this happen with every CentOS installation I've done in the past and it's confusing me. On the software template screen select, I always select "Server" and leave the extras option unchecked, I also check "Customise now". The only things I choose are the editors (to get vi), Web server and server configuration tools (and this time also Java). I didn't select any GUI programs, yet it still installs things like X, GNOME components and also samba. Why does it do that? There no way they're needed for dependencies. Is there something I'm missing when selecting the software components? Why does it still install samba when I didn't select it from under "Servers" components? Or have I misunderstood what software selection does and it installs all those components regardless but doesn't automatically turn the services on?
I have tried to install CentOS about twenty times. Each time it hangs up at package download. I says that file rsh-o,17-40.e15.i386.rpm cannot be oppened Due to a missing file or corrupt package or corrept nedia.
installing subversion on CentOS 5.5 using following command: [root@lucifer ~]# yum install mod_dav_svn subversion does dont connect to a mirror with following error, "Temporary failure in name resolution"
I have a problem installing RRDTool on Centos 5.4 and it will always come up error dependencies cairo-devel and pangocairo but I already installed this packages.
I have been running CentOS 5 as my primary desktop for about 6 months now, and have been very pleased with it. Since I work as a hardware designer most of the tools I need only provide support for RHEL, and I have found these tools (once you hack the installer anyway) generally work very, very well indeed on CentOS.
I recently bought a new computer and I thought I'd share my experiences of installing CentOS 5.2 on it. Here's the specs - Core i7 920, 12Gig DDR3, Radeon 4780, Gigabyte EX58-UD4. The first issue I encountered was a very early boot crash. This was a known problem with the onboard Gig-E chipset and I eventually found the solution on your wiki site. Using a separate network card I was able to install the new kernel module and it now works great. I believe this is now sorted in 5.3.
Next up was a problem with the Radeon card I think - after installing the ATI driver (proprietary), X would come up with a white screen and the computer would lock up. Going back to VESA would get me going again, but frankly I can't stand X without video acceleration. This turned out to be a problem with "RHGB" (not the first time I've had problems with this to be honest). Disabling it in the grub command line sorted that out.
The next problem was the performance of the harddisk - I was only getting a few MB read/write speed out of it according to hdparm. This seriously slowed down the PC. To fix that I had to enable AHCI in the bios which got things running much better - about 55 MB/sec.
The last problem was with the virtualization. I run VirtualBox with a windows instance and it kept crashing every time I booted it (I'd copied it across from my old workstation). This was because of FlexLM drivers used for USB dongle based licenses. Now, these will only work if you enable the VT extensions on the processor. I thought I had - the VM certainly had it enabled and so had the bios. Going through the VirtualBox log's it seemed like they were being detected but not enabled. From what I understand, VT-x was enabled, but the BIOS is supposed to also set up some form of locking mechanism or these virtual machines wont use it. It seems this wasn't done properly with the BIOS revision supplied with the motherboard (F2). Upgrading to the latest BIOS got it working properly.
My only outstanding issues now aren't really CentOS related - enabling AHCI has stopped my (proper, dual boot) Windows installation from working. At the moment I have to disable it in the BIOS before booting Windows - no big problem as I don't do that often (I maybe need to reinstall it). The other issue is GRUB wont work with my USB keyboard even though the BIOS seems happy enough with it. Odd in that the same keyboard worked fine with GRUB on my old workstation.
Finally, a couple of general remarks about using CentOS - it's never crashed on me and I do thrash the thing at times when I'm doing hardware synthesis or P&R! Base software is a bit limited, but adding some external repos (RPMForge and EPEL in particular) generally sorts that out. The only thing I (personally) miss is a more up-to-date version of mono.
