Re: [CentOS] netinstall
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: How can I insert a disc which is already inserted? What am I missing? Well, pretty simple... You don't have the correct disc already inserted. Its a netinstall, hence the net so it needs the net. Its also only a couple hundred megs, so that should indicate it doesn't have the full tree available. Grab the dvd if you want to install from the same disc, or choose another method. As Joseph mention, if you downloaded the netinstall you should definitely use the net and not any CD/DVD installer. http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2011/centos-6-netinstall-network-installation/ This is a tutorial that will guide you through and points to the correct URL for package repositories and to the correct install.img file. -- *Yanis Guenane* ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] vi defaults in 6.x
On 20.8.2012 19:16, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 08/20/2012 04:07 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Gordon Messmeryiny...@eburg.com wrote: Actually, it's a shell alias. And then, only if vim is installed, which it isn't in some configurations. IIRC, desktop systems have him by default, but server installations do not. It is neither a symlink nor a shell alias - execpt maybe for platforms that for some reason don't include vi. On a CentOS system, vi will be a shell alias when the vim package is installed. Otherwise it will be a variant of vim which is more compatible with the POSIX description of vi (though not 100%). As we are discussing CentOS, I believe my statements did not require correction. Thanks. I got curious ;-) vim-minimal installs /bin/vi vim-enhanced installs /usr/bin/vim and sets the alias (the vim package) [falb@xxx ~]$ which vi alias vi='vim' /usr/bin/vim [falb@xxx ~]$ which vim /usr/bin/vim [falb@xxx ~]$ whereis vi vi: /bin/vi /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1p/vi.1p.gz But the alias is not set for root! [root@xxx ~]# which vi /bin/vi [root@xxx ~]# which vim /usr/bin/vim -- Kind Regards, Markus Falb signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] yum relocatable RPMs
Hello, I dont have root access but I would like to install several packages (gtk) in my home directory. Is it possible to install it via yum ? -- --- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.-- ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] yum relocatable RPMs
Am 26.08.2012 um 15:51 schrieb Rita: Hello, I dont have root access but I would like to install several packages (gtk) in my home directory. Is it possible to install it via yum ? AFAIK - no. But checkout the manual for rpm. -- LF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] vi defaults in 6.x
On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 08:26:48 Markus Falb markus.f...@fasel.at wrote: On 20.8.2012 19:16, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 08/20/2012 04:07 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Gordon Messmeryiny...@eburg.com wrote: Actually, it's a shell alias. And then, only if vim is installed, which it isn't in some configurations. IIRC, desktop systems have him by default, but server installations do not. It is neither a symlink nor a shell alias - execpt maybe for platforms that for some reason don't include vi. On a CentOS system, vi will be a shell alias when the vim package is installed. Otherwise it will be a variant of vim which is more compatible with the POSIX description of vi (though not 100%). As we are discussing CentOS, I believe my statements did not require correction. Thanks. I got curious ;-) vim-minimal installs /bin/vi vim-enhanced installs /usr/bin/vim and sets the alias (the vim package) [falb@xxx ~]$ which vi alias vi='vim' /usr/bin/vim [falb@xxx ~]$ which vim /usr/bin/vim [falb@xxx ~]$ whereis vi vi: /bin/vi /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1p/vi.1p.gz But the alias is not set for root! FWIW, If you comment out the line [ -n $ID -a $ID -le 200 ] return in /etc/profile.d/vim.sh then the alias will be set at login. Regards, -- Tom m...@tdiehl.org Spamtrap address me...@tdiehl.org ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] yum relocatable RPMs
On 08/26/12 6:51 AM, Rita wrote: I dont have root access but I would like to install several packages (gtk) in my home directory. Is it possible to install it via yum ? no. rpm installed packages have to be listed in the system catalogs so package management can keep track of them. have your system manager install them, or build your own from tarballs specifying to install in your home dir (typically a --prefix= option on ./configure, but that heavily depends on the package and how its built). -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] yum relocatable RPMs
Thanks. My system manager wants the installations to be very small which makes sense and also the stock versions are very outdated therefore it would be hard. On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 2:49 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 08/26/12 6:51 AM, Rita wrote: I dont have root access but I would like to install several packages (gtk) in my home directory. Is it possible to install it via yum ? no. rpm installed packages have to be listed in the system catalogs so package management can keep track of them. have your system manager install them, or build your own from tarballs specifying to install in your home dir (typically a --prefix= option on ./configure, but that heavily depends on the package and how its built). -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- --- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.-- ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] netinstall
On 2012-08-26 at 09:18:21 +0200, Yanis Guenane wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: How can I insert a disc which is already inserted? What am I missing? Well, pretty simple... You don't have the correct disc already inserted. Its a netinstall, hence the net so it needs the net. Its also only a couple hundred megs, so that should indicate it doesn't have the full tree available. Grab the dvd if you want to install from the same disc, or choose another method. As Joseph mention, if you downloaded the netinstall you should definitely use the net and not any CD/DVD installer. Sorry Joseph and Yanis, I wasn't clear enough last night. Maybe it was too late. I'm not talking about the packages but about the file install.img. This file *IS* already on the netinstall CD and it's exactly the same as the one I had to download. I downloaded it again now in order to compare: $ md5sum /media/dvd/images/install.img ~/downloads/install.img ef3b0e14ff354c41524600c00ef44000 /media/dvd/images/install.img ef3b0e14ff354c41524600c00ef44000 /home/reinhard/downloads/install.img In order to save time and traffic, it would be nice if I could use it. There is even a menu item but it doesn't work for me. According to the error message, the installer assumed that the file install.img is on another disc. But this is not the case. It's on the netinstall CD already. http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2011/centos-6-netinstall-network-installation/ This is a tutorial that will guide you through and points to the correct URL for package repositories and to the correct install.img file. Sure, but the install.img file at the package repository isn't more correct than the one on the netinstall CD. They are identical. The guy who wrote the tutorial obviously encountered the same problem but wasn't aware of the file on the CD and suggested this workaround. BTW, I got the system running. But I fear that I'll have to install it several times again because I'd like to experiment with virtual machines and LVM. It's very likely that I break something since I have no experience with them. Therefore it would save me some time if I don't have to download a file which exists on the CD already. Of course, it takes much more time to download and install the packages, but in this case, once installation is started, I can do something else meanwhile. Another thing: Even if I can use install.img from the CD, at least when I have to install packages, I have to specify an URL to a repository. Documentation proposes mirror.centos.org . Is there a reason why the installer doesn't offer the mirror URL as a default? I ask because I have only one machine and whenever the installer asks me for an URL, I have to abort and boot a system which provides a web browser in order to read the documentation, write the URL down on paper, and start the installer again. Well, I sometimes have the impression that I'm the only one in the world who doesn't have a mobile phone with a built-in web browser. :) Of course, specifying a particular server as a default isn't reasonable, it would cause too much traffic there. But given that mirror.centos.org performs load balancing, wouldn't it be possible to provide a default URL in the installer menu? It would make installation *much* more convenient. Any idea why it hasn't been done? Regards, Reinhard -- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-3373112 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:reinhard.kotu...@web.de Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
