[CentOS] secure boot.
I've been reading up some about the new secure boot that's coming out on new machines when MS releases Win 8. Has a workaround been developed yet for those of us who don't want to run windows? Typically, I mostly build my own desktops, and I install cent os right from the start, but sometimes I do buy a desktop, and naturally it comes with windows on it, so I have to do a wipe and load, to get rid of windows. Jim ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up
I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if this has already been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop freezing up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm running firefox. I'm not sure if it's firefox, or the OS that's locking up. When it freezes up, nothing will respond, so I'm inclined to think it's the OS that's freezing up. Has anyone else been having this problem? Thanks Jim ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] OT Problem seeing slave drives.
This isn't specifically about cent os, but I am running cent os on this machine. I've got a Dell Dimension 2400 desktop pc. I've tried on a number of occasions to put a second hard drive in the machine, but I can't get the machine to recognize the second drive in BIOS. I'm going to try and keep this short and sweet. I've tried all that I know to try. I've set the jumpers on the drives to master and slave, I've tried setting the jumpers to cable select. I've changed the IDE ribbon cable. As far as I know, I've done all the trouble shooting steps that you'd do when having this problem. The only conclusion I can come up with, is that it's the BIOS. The one thing I haven't done is flash the BIOS, and I'm reluctant to do that. One other thing that I did try, was on the secondary IDE, I tried connecting a second CD drive, and the BIOS would not see it either. The machine will only see the drives that are connected to what would be the Master drive connection on the ribbon cable. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks Jim ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT Problem seeing slave drives.
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 12:14 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: On 04/05/11 11:37 AM, Jimmy Bradley wrote: This isn't specifically about cent os, but I am running cent os on this machine. I've got a Dell Dimension 2400 desktop pc. I've tried on a number of occasions to put a second hard drive in the machine, but I can't get the machine to recognize the second drive in BIOS. I'm going to try and keep this short and sweet. I've tried all that I know to try. I've set the jumpers on the drives to master and slave, I've tried setting the jumpers to cable select. I've changed the IDE ribbon cable. As far as I know, I've done all the trouble shooting steps that you'd do when having this problem. (Googles a bit) Ok, thats a Intel 845GV chipset[1], which supports UDMA100[2], so you must use 80 wire UDMA style IDE cables or get very unreliable results. wow, thats some old chit. I have some chit, that's older than that. I also have a dell L500R that I acquired from my step dad's mom. She's in a nursing home suffering from dementia, so she doesn't know if it's Monday, or July 4,1776. Anyway, normally I would've just scrapped a machine that old for parts, but I didn't feel like it would be the right thing to do, since she's still alive. So, on a whim, I stuck a 500gig hard drive in it, which the bios saw, and I loaded White box 4 on it, and I use it as a archiving/file storage machine. The machine runs just fine. It's got 512mb of ram in it, and super fast 433 mghrtz intel celeron cpu. It'll run circles around a comodore vic 20, or a TRS 80. Jim With UDMA cables, they must be plugged in the correct way, the blue connector goes to the mainboard, the far end black connector goes to the 'master' (1st) drive, and the middle gray connector goes to the slave (2nd) drive. The drives should be jumpered as 'cable select' (but you /can/ use master/slave jumpering as LONG as they are connected in the correct order).The connectors should all be 'keyed' by a rectangular block molded on one side such that you can't plug them in the wrong way. There also should be a missing pin on the mobo and drives and a blocked pin on the cable that acts as a key. Both devices on the cable should be UDMA 100 capable, mixing older technology DMA33 stuff was bad news and resulted in all kinda funky behavior. phew, [1] indicates that system has 2 dimm slots with support for 256M and 512M dimms (DDR SDRAM), onboard shared memory graphics, and only has one internal drive bay, and a 200 or 230W PSU. Pentium-4 w/ 400 or 533Mhz FSB so its probably Northwood generation, circa 2002.The CMOS battery is likely a ball of toxic green fuzz right now. Frankly, anything that old, when it starts misbehaving, its time for the recycle bin. [1] http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim2400/en/sm_en/specs.htm [2] page 28 http://downloadmirror.intel.com/15210/eng/D845GVSR_TechProdSpec.pdf http://downloadmirror.intel.com/15210/eng/D845GVSR_TechProdSpec.pdf [different board, but same chips and better documentation] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?
I've seen the posts over and over again about when is 6 going to be out? I appreciate the time the developers put in to make cent os available. My main question about when is 6 going to be out is, does it really matter? 5.5 works just fine, so if it's not broke, why fix it? Other than being able to say you have the latest and greatest version, are you really gaining anything? Is your machine going to suddenly stop working if you don't get ver. 6 on your machine right now? I don't think so. I'm a small business owner, and I don't have a large IT team to handle software deployments. I have to do it all myself. I'm not looking forward to another OS upgrade, and all the backing up beforehand that goes with it. I just don't see what all the fuse is over. Jim On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 13:43 -0700, Ryan Ordway wrote: On Apr 4, 2011, at 11:26 AM, David Brian Chait wrote: If Karanbir says 3 weeks it takes 3 months. (as well as with CentOS 5.6) Well that and we have been a few days away from 5.6 for well over a few months now... I didn't realize it was already CentOS bashing day... oh, it's just Monday. Really, guys... give it a rest. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Problem burning dvd's
I have a question on burning dvd iso's, using k3b. I have a sony dvd rw, and I've burned cd's with now problem, including iso's. The problem I'm having is, when I burn a dvd iso, k3b says it's a success, but then when I re-insert the disk, the drive tries to read the disk, but the read/write light just stays on, and the drive can't access the disk. Am I leaving a step out, or something? I burn cd iso's all the time. Thanks Jim ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?
I do have one question about Cent OS 6. Sonetimes back, I remember reading that the plan was to spread the iso's over multiple cd's, rather than put it all on 1 dvd. Is that still the plan? As far as when it's released, I say take all the time you need. I'd rather have an os that works, than something that's just thrown together, and is about as stable as windows me, or vista. Thanks Jim On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 10:44 -0800, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 3, 2011, at 7:11 AM, Digimer wrote: How about the rest of you? What are you looking forward to in CentOS 6 when it is released? XFS support on boot partitions. PVOPS kernel so I can get better VGA/USB passthrough with Xen. Newer KDE. Newer MonoDevelop package (boy was this a nightmare to install on previous versions). Mebbe even messing with EXT4. Newer DHCP so I can get better failover. I'm sure more things will come up. I did dl RHEL 6 but my eval expired so I'm getting SL 6 to better prep myself for Centos 6 rel. Got a few servers to roll out needing some features above. - aurf ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Installing Cent OS from a usb flash drive
I recently acquired a Fujitsu Lifebook 1610. Unfortunately, the machine was missing a lot of the stuff that would've come with it brand new, mainly the usb cdrom drive. Currently, I'm running Fedora on it, and I installed it using a usb flash drive with the help of a program called unetbootin(Probably not spelled right). to load the ISO onto the USB drive. I've successfully used the same program to load the Cent OS live cd onto a flash drive, and I've run it on the machine. Now, is there a way that I can install cent os onto the machine by way of the usb flash drive? I've tried the network install route, and didn't have any luck. Thanks Jim ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4
On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 21:24 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 22:56 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: So what would be the down side to just walking away from everything RH-related now that Ubuntu has a free alternative with long term support? I thought perhaps when I mentioned it earlier there would be a flurry of responses pointing out functional deficiencies but so far there have been none. I would never have started using RH in the early days if it had not been freely redistributable. Now the clones are better than nothing, but it still seems wrong. There's nothing inherently wrong with Ubuntu as far as I can tell and yes, some versions do have long term support and you can purchase support from Canonical. But you've been around long enough to know all this so I'm not sure what point you are trying to make because each Linux distribution has its own strengths and weaknesses and that includes RHEL (CentOS) and Ubuntu, etc. Craig This is just my 2 cents worth. The reason I run Cent OS is because it just seems to be rock solid stable. That's something I haven't seen in any of the other distros, or MS Windows. My computers are my lifeline to my jobs. I get my assignments by way of my computer, and I report my completed assignments on my computer. It's bad enough to have to deal with hardware failures from time to time, so the last thing I want to deal with on top of that is a finicky OS or software. I run Cent OS on both of my laptops, and all three of my desktops, and I can power any one of those machines up, and so far Cent OS has never failed me. Cent OS just works. That's what matters to me. Just my 2 cents Jim ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] OT, but just a quick question.
I know this is off topic, so please accept my apologies. This is just out of curiosity, and a number of people I've talked to in the area I live in have said the same thing. About 2 weeks ago, my one remaining xp machine downloaded and installed an update from Microsoft. Ever since then, the machine has run slower than a dead person. I was just wondering if anyone here on the list who still has a xp machine or two running has noticed the same thing? Thanks Jim ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT, but just a quick question.
And a crappy day to you too. On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 21:13 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 22:31 -0500, Jimmy Bradley wrote: I know this is off topic, so please accept my apologies. This is just out of curiosity, and a number of people I've talked to in the area I live in have said the same thing. About 2 weeks ago, my one remaining xp machine downloaded and installed an update from Microsoft. Ever since then, the machine has run slower than a dead person. I was just wondering if anyone here on the list who still has a xp machine or two running has noticed the same thing? there are Windows mail lists... this is one http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/winnt-l.html Craig ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] HD Failures
I'm just curious if any one else has noticed this. I've bought hard drives from both Walmart and Best Buy. If I can wait, I order them from newegg.com. I'm beginning to think that the staff at both Walmart and Best Buy, somewhere along the supply line must dribble the drives like basket balls. The reason I say that is all the drives I have bought from those two places fail within a few months time. Has anyone else noticed that? Just curious. Jim ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Question on failing hard drive part 2
OK, I've figured out which drive is bad. Before I go any further let me give a brief HD configuration explanation. The primary IDE has a 80gig(Master) HD, and an internal zip drive(Slave) connected to it. The two 200gig Hard Drives are connect to a PCI ATA controller card(Not a promise card), one is master, the other one is slave. It is the slave 200gig drive that is going bad. Now, I have a feeling this would be too easy. When I set the machine up, Cent OS set the drives up using LVM. I only have about 20 to 30 gigs of data saved on the machine right now. Maybe not quite that much. Like I said, I have a feeling that hoping this will work would be too easy, but what do you think my chances would be, that I could disconnect the drive that is going bad, boot the machine up, and it fully boot up, and all my data be intact, and LVM automatically resize the home partition down to around 200gigs instead of 405gigs? Jim ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Question on failing hard drives
In my Cent OS machine, I have 3 hard drives, an 80, and two 200gig hard drives. One of the drives is obviously starting to fail, but I'm not sure which one. Is there a command line command in Linux that will check the drive integrity on all the hard drives and tell me which one is going bad? Thanks Jim ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] cpu type
I have a quick question. The board and CPU that I'm using in one of my machines was given to me. I didn't take the time to look up the info on the board or anything. I was busy, so I just put the board in a pc case, hooked everything up, and loaded the os on the machine. I didn't know it at the time, but there's a chance it may be a 64bit board and cpu. I don't want to pull the machine out of the desk, and open it up to find out. Is there a command entered by way of the terminal window that will tell me what kind of cpu I have? I want to say that it's an AMD sempron 3000+, but I'm not sure. Thanks Jim ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] cpu type
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 12:12 +, Steve Searle wrote: Around 12:06pm on Sunday, February 03, 2008 (UK time), Jimmy Bradley scrawled: and open it up to find out. Is there a command entered by way of the terminal window that will tell me what kind of cpu I have? I want to say that it's an AMD sempron 3000+, but I'm not sure. cat /proc/cpuinfo Steve Thanks, Below is my cpu info. I'm thinking it's a 32bit cpu. Correct me if I'm wrong please. While I'm on the subject, I have a 64bit board that I haven't installed in a case yet. Plus I still need to get a cpu for it. My question is, would I really gain anything right now by going to a 64bit machine? Sure I know I would if I was doing graphics and multimedia, but I'm just doing record keeping,plus the other regular computer stuff, finances and email, and so on. Jim processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 44 model name : Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ stepping: 2 cpu MHz : 800.000 cache size : 128 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt 3dnowext 3dnow up pni lahf_lm ts fid vid ttp tm stc bogomips: 1601.05 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] problem with firefox
Just out of curiosity, has anyone noticed a problem that has developed with firefox? This started on both of my machines after the newest updates. I'll be at a website, even the mozilla website, and when I click on a link to go to another part of the site or to download a file, Firefox will just simply close. It's random for the most part, but it happened quite often at the sourceforge.net website too. I'm not having this problem with Seamonkey. Jim ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cheap dual-head pci card with CentOS support?
Currently I'm using an NV34(Geforce FX 5500). It's a PCI card, and it has both SVGA and DVI outputs. I don't know if both outputs will work at once, but I don't see why not. The card is working fine for me. Sorry, but I don't have a second one to sell, but that should give you a starting point. Jim On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 20:18 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: mbneto wrote: Hi, I am looking for a cheap PCI (or AGP) video card with dual output (DVI or VGA) and CentOS support. nvidia x200yy for x=6,7 and yy=GS or whatever is cheapest. probably will have one each VGA + DVI, usable concurrently. will easily support 2 x 1600 x 1200 x 32bit at high refresh rate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] need wireless pci card
Does anyone here on the list, that lives in the U.S. have a spare wireless pci card that they know will work with Cent OS 5. If you have one, and would consider selling it, contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and lets see what we can work out. Thanks Jim ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
