I've successfully installed CentOS 6.3, but I had a 512MB VPS when I did that. Bootstrapped from the standard kernel+initrd, install tree.
RJ On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Nick Bebout (nb) <[email protected]> wrote: > /distros/centos64.tar.gz is CentOS 6 > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 27, 2013, at 11:14, Kyle Brantley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 5/18/2013 9:24 PM, Kyle Brantley wrote: > >> On 5/16/2013 9:23 PM, Luke S. Crawford wrote: > >>> On 05/16/2013 12:43 PM, Ruben Rodriguez <cha0s> wrote: > >>>> Thanks guys, but neither of these seems to be where the addresses > >>>> currently in /etc/resolv.conf are coming from. I don't believe I set > >>>> this up myself and have no idea how to change it. If everything breaks > >>>> whenever this change happens I'm probably not going to bother trying > to > >>>> fix it, more like tar scp, rm :P > >>> > >>> > >>> Yeah, most of your /etc/resolv.conf files were setup with the image we > use to install you (I want to get away from using images and make you all > use the install kernel/initrd for your preferred distro... but that hasn't > happened yet.) > >> > >> This may be $DISTRO specific, but if you gave me a way of loading up > the installer kernel + initrd and then allowed me to specify a kickstart > URL to actually run the install, that would satisfy all of my needs (and > desires when it comes to installation, actually!). > >> > >> Perhaps just maintain all of the common network installers and provide > the option to boot them up from the rescue console, but also provide the > option to edit the command line for those kernels as well? That way you > don't have to worry about an image for debian or fedora or etc, all you > need is a few hundred megs per distro and those who want to perform custom > / automated installs still can. Maybe for the people who "just want a > working distro" provide an option to use a kickstart (or similar) file that > would install the system using defaults without end user intervention. > >> > >> --Kyle > > > > I'm working on setting up my second node now and trying to manually > install the OS (dropped vmlinuz and initrd.img into /boot, added an entry > for grub), and I've found a few problems with doing it this way. > > > > 1) CentOS 6 requires at least 512MB of RAM to install. This is a problem > for my 256MB VPS. > > > > I've managed to mostly work around this by commenting out lines 1244 > through 1257 as well as 2131 in loader/loader.c from the anaconda SRPM and > rebuilding the initrd to contain this new version of /sbin/loader. It looks > like there is another check for RAM once you actually get into anaconda > (starts on line 376 of the 'anaconda' script) and I'm not positive on how > I'll be able to work around that yet, but I also have yet to get there. I'm > sure that just adding 'return True' to line 377 would fix it, but this > script isn't contained within the initrd, but rather install.img (which is > hosted in the same location as the rest of the installer tree... I can't > easily push a new version of this without hosting the entire install > mirror). > > > > 2) I can't actually seem to manually boot the installer. :( > > > > No matter what I choose for the kernel boot options, even just as simple > as 'kernel /boot/vmlinuz' and nothing else, I can't seem to actually get to > the installer screen. The entire node seems to die during the kernel init, > and I think that this is truncating the actual error message. The last few > things on my screen: > > > > NET: Registered protocol family 17 > > registered taskstats version 1 > > XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51712 > > XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51776 > > XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51792 > > XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0 > > drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0) > > Initalizing network drop monitor service > > > > > > Has anyone had success with manually installing CentOS here, or does > everyone wind up installing it elsewhere and transferring the image over? > > > > --Kyle > > _______________________________________________ > > discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.prgmr.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.prgmr.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- "Always love, hate will get you every time" - Nada Surf
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