Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3 live-cd no internet connection
On 30/11/2012 22:25, Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Johan Scheepers Sent: den 30 november 2012 19:09 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3 live-cd no internet connection I am a pensionar and have lots of time. Experimenting with different flavours of linux each on a external USB drive. Like suse, mandriva, debian, mint, debian-mint, ubuntu, fedora, magaia, bodhi, arch-linux, centos. Up to date only arch-linux and now centos refuse my internet connection. I appreciate your responses but if it can not be done, that is a pity, then it is fine. It can be done, it 's just a matter of time and stubbornness. OTOH, you seem to have the time. ;-) -- /Sorin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Good day to Sorin and Earl, Appreciate your participation. Eventually got it installed on my older Fujitso/Siemenns laptop. The DVD1 did see the card but refused to activate. Yes I have the time but not the know-how to rewrite bad software. Centos software not as user friendly as I expected. Will now move on. Now busy downloading Fedora 18 Beta. Yesterday got a Linux Mag with a DVD containing Mint 13 KDE, Bohdi 2, Pear 5. Saw on the mailing list that Debian wheezy Beta4 now available. Will download and test. Have plenty to keep me busy. Thankyou for your time to let me have a look see. Regards JohanS. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3 live-cd no internet connection
On 30/11/2012 10:52, Sorin Srbu (IMAP) wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Johan Scheepers Sent: den 30 november 2012 07:59 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3 live-cd no internet connection Installed Centos 6.3 live-cd. Looking good but * no internet connection * (wired dsl system). Did you check the Automatically connect-check box in the network manager for you connection? If you've done a plain vanilla install and didn't look at the network settings at install time, odds are that this checkbox is unchecked. On install there was a option at left hand bottom for Internet connection on some page. It was grayed out and had no effect on clicking. This could mean the live-install didn't recognize your network card. Are we talking wireless or wired connections now? So far I haven't seen a wired network card *not* being recognized out-of-the-box. Wireless card are a different matter, although it might've become better in CentOS 6. What would this mean.. plain vanilla install A regular standard install with no extra bells or whistles. Clean re-install would be no problem for me to get this going. I spend a lot of bandwidth (live-cd, netinstall, DVD1, DVD2) and time until now. You know, if we're talking wifi-networking on your computer, CentOS might not be the best choice (please List, forgive me for saying this..). You might be better off using something like Linux Mint instead. /Sorin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thanks for your reply. The installation was a DVD1 install. The internet is via a direct cable out of my laptop direct to a DSL modem. Even tried my cell-c modem (cell phone provider) which works on all the below OS'ses. I am a pensionar and have lots of time. Experimenting with different flavours of linux each on a external USB drive. Like suse, mandriva, debian, mint, debian-mint, ubuntu, fedora, magaia, bodhi, arch-linux, centos. Up to date only arch-linux and now centos refuse my internet connection. I appreciate your responses but if it can not be done, that is a pity, then it is fine. Regards JohanS ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3 live-cd no internet connection
On 30/11/2012 20:38, Earl A Ramirez wrote: On 1 December 2012 02:09, Johan Scheepers johanne...@vodamail.co.za wrote: On 30/11/2012 10:52, Sorin Srbu (IMAP) wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Johan Scheepers Sent: den 30 november 2012 07:59 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3 live-cd no internet connection Installed Centos 6.3 live-cd. Looking good but * no internet connection * (wired dsl system). Did you check the Automatically connect-check box in the network manager for you connection? If you've done a plain vanilla install and didn't look at the network settings at install time, odds are that this checkbox is unchecked. On install there was a option at left hand bottom for Internet connection on some page. It was grayed out and had no effect on clicking. This could mean the live-install didn't recognize your network card. Are we talking wireless or wired connections now? So far I haven't seen a wired network card *not* being recognized out-of-the-box. Wireless card are a different matter, although it might've become better in CentOS 6. What would this mean.. plain vanilla install A regular standard install with no extra bells or whistles. Clean re-install would be no problem for me to get this going. I spend a lot of bandwidth (live-cd, netinstall, DVD1, DVD2) and time until now. You know, if we're talking wifi-networking on your computer, CentOS might not be the best choice (please List, forgive me for saying this..). You might be better off using something like Linux Mint instead. /Sorin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thanks for your reply. The installation was a DVD1 install. The internet is via a direct cable out of my laptop direct to a DSL modem. Even tried my cell-c modem (cell phone provider) which works on all the below OS'ses. I am a pensionar and have lots of time. Experimenting with different flavours of linux each on a external USB drive. Like suse, mandriva, debian, mint, debian-mint, ubuntu, fedora, magaia, bodhi, arch-linux, centos. Up to date only arch-linux and now centos refuse my internet connection. I appreciate your responses but if it can not be done, that is a pity, then it is fine. Regards JohanS ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Johan, What kind f laptop is it (make/model), if the Ethernet controllers is Atheros you will need the drives from ElRepo as it is not included in CentOS. $ lspci | grep Ethernet 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet (rev c0) Earl, Laptop...Samsung RF510 johan@johan:~$ lspci | grep Ethernet 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon Optima 88E8059 [PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Controller with AVB] (rev 11) Maybe we have a solution? Thanks JohanS ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] centos 6.3 live-cd no internet connection
Good day, Installed Centos 6.3 live-cd. Looking good but * no internet connection * (wired dsl system). Other linux flavours do not seem to have this problem on my laptop and internet connection. Did a lot of google but not really advice that I could try. I would like to try Centos out but not able to proceed without connection. Kindly some detailed advice if possible. Thanks JohanS ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3 live-cd no internet connection
On 30/11/2012 08:37, Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Johan Scheepers Sent: den 28 november 2012 08:10 To: centos Subject: [CentOS] centos 6.3 live-cd no internet connection Installed Centos 6.3 live-cd. Looking good but * no internet connection * (wired dsl system). Did you check the Automatically connect-check box in the network manager for you connection? If you've done a plain vanilla install and didn't look at the network settings at install time, odds are that this checkbox is unchecked. HTH. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thanks for your reply... On install there was a option at left hand bottom for Internet connection on some page. It was grayed out and had no effect on clicking. Where would this be found, please... Automatically connect-check box in the network manager for you connection? What would this mean.. plain vanilla install Clean re-install would be no problem for me to get this going. I spend a lot of bandwidth (live-cd, netinstall, DVD1, DVD2) and time until now. Kindly some advice to look for while installing and directly afterwards, please. Thanks JohanS ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 5.6 update experience - EXCELLENT!
On 09/04/2011 14:23, Ed Westphal wrote: Just updated 98 packages on this ole hardware raid 10 box - 5.6 final is running just fine. No problems. THANKS. Ed Westphal ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Kindly please the web address you downloaded from. Thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] centos 5.6 live cd - not installable to hard drive?
Good day, Downloaded centos 5.6 live cd from... http://mirror.nexcess.net/CentOS/5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-LiveCD.iso it is dated 06-04-2011. No option to install on hard disk. Have I missed it somehow? Please some advice. Maybe the address if an installable cd iso please. Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Prozilla-gui for centos 5.5 x86_64
Good day, Seen when googled that *prozilla* seem to be very good down loader. Googled but could not find a version for my centos. Found one GUI for Fedora 14 x86_64. Would that install on my system without breaking it. or Maybe one for my system that I missed? Some advice would be appreciated. Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] server version on laptop
John R Pierce wrote: On 12/17/10 11:58 PM, Johan Scheepers wrote: Good day, What can I expect if I should install a server version of a distro on my laptop, please. that would depend on what the distro is, and what qualifies this 'server version' as such. for installing centos, which is often considered to be a server oriented system, although it comes with a full set of desktop components, you'd have to be concerned with hardware support for you laptop's display adapter, network adapters, wireless, etc. many wireless network adapters have poor support on linux and are difficult to get working. only you can know what your expectations are from an operating system, assuming it supports your portable system. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I appreciate the time you spend on my question. I am a pensioner. Never had experience about a server. Only used desktops and now laptop. Probably would never need server install. Thanks now I know more Regards Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] server version on laptop
ken wrote: On 12/18/2010 04:31 AM Kai Schaetzl wrote: Johan Scheepers wrote on Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:58:50 +0200: You can expect a server version of a distro on your laptop. Kai Kai, You took the words right out of my mouth. I've been running several server apps (mail, web, ldap, cups, and others) on laptops for close to a decade. No surprise, the server uses the same hardware drivers as are found in the workstation version. And, yes, I also run the full gamut of workstation apps on the same machine. It's only software, after all. What's the big deal? Why wouldn't it work? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thanks. Now we do know even more. Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] centos 5.5 x86_64 mixing with i386 rpms
Good day, What will happen if on x86_64 some i386 rpms get installed, please. Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 x86_64 mixing with i386 rpms
Robert Heller wrote: At Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:23:36 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Good day, What will happen if on x86_64 some i386 rpms get installed, please. Depends. It is in fact *normal* for i[3456]86 *libraries* to be installed on a CentOS/RHEL x86_64 system (many are installed by default). It is possible to also install i[3456]86 *programs* as well, and this works just fine, since A) the x86_64 kernel/program loader is just as happy to run 32-bit programs as to run 64-bit programs and B) the various i[3456]86 *libraries* are also generally (or can be) installed. Installing a i686 *kernel* or *kernel module* is pretty much useless, unless you reboot with the 32-bit kernel. At which point your *64-bit* programs won't work :-(. You don't want to do that. For some programs/packages, installing the 32-bit version might be ill advised, but I don't think things will necessarily break. What you should *not* do is try to upgrade a 32-bit OS to 64-bit: you should *always* do a 'fresh install' if/when you do that. Make a backup of your /etc and /home and maybe things like /var/www and /var/ftp, dump your MySQL/Progress/OpenLDAP databases, etc., unless that stuff is on a separate file system. Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thanks for your time to explain. This happened while I was installing multimedia plugins. I keep to the official repos for usual updates. Regards Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 x86_64 mixing with i386 rpms
Nicolas Ross wrote: Good day, What will happen if on x86_64 some i386 rpms get installed, please. Thanks Johan You'll need some libraries, like libstdc++ in i686 version, but they'll be installed and they'll run. Regards, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos This happened while installing multimedia. Now I feel better. It was not too important rpms. Thanks for your time Regards Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] server version on laptop
Good day, What can I expect if I should install a server version of a distro on my laptop, please. Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] centos 5.5 x86_64 - mplayer install problems
good day, I have tried to install mplayer according to instructions from the following sites..: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS Then last..: [r...@johan ~]# yum install libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay libdvdnav lsdvd mplayerplug-in mplayer mplayer-gui compat-libstdc++-33 flash-plugin gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg libquicktime After a lot of stuff ended up like this..: -- Processing Dependency: libdvdread.so.3()(64bit) for package: lsdvd -- Finished Dependency Resolution lsdvd-0.16-2.el5.rf.x86_64 from rpmforge has depsolving problems -- Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.3()(64bit) is needed by package lsdvd-0.16-2.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-2.el5.rf.x86_64 from rpmforge has depsolving problems -- Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.3()(64bit) is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-2.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.3()(64bit) is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-2.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.3()(64bit) is needed by package lsdvd-0.16-2.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: package-cleanup --problems package-cleanup --dupes rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest All went well up to the above. Now I am stumped. Kindly some advice please. I am still learning as I go along. Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] yum-complete-transaction
Good day, Some yum instructions I do not know. Kindly some pointers please. There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them. The program yum-complete-transaction is found in the yum-utils package. This is where I am lost Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] (SOLVED) yum-complete-transaction
Johan Scheepers wrote: Good day, Some yum instructions I do not know. Kindly some pointers please. There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them. The program yum-complete-transaction is found in the yum-utils package. This is where I am lost Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I found the required stuf on google. Sorry. Regards Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] yum-complete-transaction
Les Mikesell wrote: On 12/4/10 4:20 AM, Johan Scheepers wrote: Good day, Some yum instructions I do not know. Kindly some pointers please. There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them. The program yum-complete-transaction is found in the yum-utils package. This is where I am lost Just type the command (as root): yum-complete-transaction and if the program is not found, yum install yum-utils yum-complete-transaction Good day, It was not installed. Have done that. Works fine. This one is new to me. Regards Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3
Ron Blizzard wrote: On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Johan Scheepers johans...@telkomsa.net wrote: Good day, Been googling about this matter. Afraid I am now confused. Too many options..: for/against/whatever. Some is years ago. Kindly please a step x step manner in which to accomplish to enable mp3 please. Thanks Johan Here's a good link on setting up multimedia with CentOS. http://linuxforeverything.com/wordpress/?p=73 Good day Ron, Thanks, Will be looking at this. Yesterday a list member gave me his website for the xmms files and I installed it. Playing now very nicely. Regards Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3
Good day, Been googling about this matter. Afraid I am now confused. Too many options..: for/against/whatever. Some is years ago. Kindly please a step x step manner in which to accomplish to enable mp3 please. Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3
Johan Scheepers wrote: Good day, Been googling about this matter. Afraid I am now confused. Too many options..: for/against/whatever. Some is years ago. Kindly please a step x step manner in which to accomplish to enable mp3 please. Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos To all the people out there that responded..Thank you. I know you want to help. All those links .. Error 404 and some not found etc. It is true as someone said its a jungle out there. Me..if it is not an rpm .. then I am out in the bush. Thanks again Regards Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3
Scot P. Floess wrote: Well - really isn't it all in what tool makes the most sense for the job at hand? If one doesn't need the latest and greatest - CentOS as a desktop is super stable... Don't get me wrong, I like Fedora...but still :) On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Alan Hodgson wrote: On December 1, 2010, Scot P. Floess sflo...@nc.rr.com wrote: I think when CentOS 6 is released, that may not be even close to true :) I'm running RHEL 6 @ work as my desktop - it has a fairly decent version of KDE (4.3 specifically) - and this is on a laptop - its great ;) Until a year from now. When it is again well behind faster moving desktop distros. ok I have tried.. suse 11.3 very nice ubuntu 10.10 ok fedora 14 very nice debian squeeze very very nice centos 5.5 i386 love it Want to try x86_64.. laptop is capable will see Enjoy Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] centos 5.5 - not detecting internet connection
Good day, By accident booted with dsl internet not connected. When reconnecting dsl - centos did not detect it. Is there a way to make it trigger detection rather then rebooting Please. Thanks Regards Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] ( SOLVED ) Hostname too long
Good day, Some time ago I asked some assistance for the long hostname in the terminals. Editing .bashrc in user and root by adding PS1=xxx did make the difference. Here is something I picked up on another list that make editing .bashrc not necessary. as root..gedit /etc/sysconfig/network # HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain change to in my case and that solves the problem HOSTNAME=johan.jan Regards Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] centos 5.5 - which partition manager installed
Good day, Gparted is not available on my installation. Which patition tool is available in centos 5.5 please. Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - which partition manager installed
Robert Heller wrote: At Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:02:49 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Good day, Gparted is not available on my installation. Which patition tool is available in centos 5.5 please. fdisk, sfdisk, parted, kpartx, and pyparted. fdisk is not recomended for really large disks since it only handles DOS partition tables -- use parted to create GPT partition tables. Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thanks. I was looking for a graphical tool Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - which partition manager installed
Lars Hecking wrote: fdisk, sfdisk, parted, kpartx, and pyparted. fdisk is not recomended for really large disks since it only handles DOS partition tables -- use parted to create GPT partition tables. I prefer GPT fdisk for that and rolled my own rpm ... --- This message and any attachments may contain Cypress (or its subsidiaries) confidential information. If it has been received in error, please advise the sender and immediately delete this message. --- ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thanks. Now busy installing gparted Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - which partition manager installed
Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Johan Scheepers johans...@telkomsa.net wrote: Good day, Gparted is not available on my installation. Which patition tool is available in centos 5.5 please. Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Have you tried to see what other tools are installed? And, have you tried to install gparted? Now busy installing it. Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - which partition manager installed
Keith Roberts wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Johan Scheepers wrote: To: centos centos@centos.org From: Johan Scheepers johans...@telkomsa.net Subject: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - which partition manager installed Good day, Gparted is not available on my installation. Which patition tool is available in centos 5.5 please. Hi Johan. It's available from rpmforge repository: Installed Packages Name : gparted Arch : i386 Version: 0.4.8 Release: 4.el5.rf Size : 3.4 M Repo : installed Summary: Gnome Partition Editor URL: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ License: GPLv2+ Description: GParted stands for Gnome Partition Editor and is a graphical frontend : to libparted. Among other features it supports creating, resizing, : moving and copying of partitions. Also several (optional) filesystem : tools provide support for filesystems not included in libparted. : These optional packages will be detected at runtime and don't require : a rebuild of GParted As well as installing it from the above, I'd recommend getting the live CD from the Gparted website: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php As this is handy for preparing your hard drive, before doing a fresh installation of Linux. Some things are not possible when using Gparted from a working Linux installation. As the Gparted CD runs from memory, you can do anything you want to any partition using this. Kind Regards, Keith Roberts Busy installing gparted fron centos repos. Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] centos 5.5 -software updater-break in download
Good day, New to centos, New install . Using - Software updater While updating - downloading 73 updates there was a break in the download. The break happened close to the end. Now when using software updater again will it start all over again? Go on where the break happened? Could not find on google this issue Kindly some advice please. Thanks, Regards Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] set and lengthen time between screensavers
Good day, I am the only user of the laptop at home. Please, How/where can I change to keep to screen longer open. Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Add application to start at booting
Good day, Please, How/where can I add an application to start at boot up. Don't seem to find it in options available Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Add application to start at booting
Barry Brimer wrote: Please, How/where can I add an application to start at boot up. Don't seem to find it in options available Again, I assume you are using GNOME under CentOS 5 System - Preferences - More Preferences - Sessions - Startup Programs - Add Barry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thanks. Easy. Did not look deep enough. Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] set and lengthen time between screensavers
Barry Brimer wrote: Please, How/where can I change to keep to screen longer open. I assume you are using GNOME under CentOS 5. System - Preferences - Screensaver Barry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thanks again. Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Add application to start at booting
sheraz...@yahoo.com wrote: This was recently answered in another thread Quote Re: [CentOS] best way to start and shutdown programs in CentOS? On 24 November 2010 14:20, killscript killscr...@gmail.com wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: The RedHat/Centos way of doing things is to have init scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d that take at least start, stop, and restart as arguments for each program that should start automatically. Then for the runlevels where you want them to start you have a symlink where the name starts with S and the rest is a number to make it sort alphabetically into the order that things should start in /etc/rc?.d (where the ? is the runlevel). Likewise add links starting with 'K' in the levels where the process should be stopped.There is a convention for comments in the scripts so that 'checkconfig program on' can make the links for you. Look through some of the other scripts to see how they work. Sorry for the stupid question here, but does the /etc/initd./scriptname file know about these symlinks because of a particular comment in there? Copied from the man file for chkconfig: RUNLEVEL FILES Each service which should be manageable by chkconfig needs two or more commented lines added to its init.d script. The first line tells chkconfig what runlevels the service should be started in by default, as well as the start and stop priority levels. If the service should not, by default, be started in any runlevels, a - should be used in place of the runlevels list. The sec- ond line contains a description for the service, and may be extended across multiple lines with backslash continuation. For example, random.init has these three lines: # chkconfig: 2345 20 80 # description: Saves and restores system entropy pool for \ # higher quality random number generation. This says that the random script should be started in levels 2, 3, 4, and 5, that its start priority should be 20, and that its stop priority should be 80. You should be able to figure out what the description says; the \ causes the line to be continued. The extra space in front of the line is ignored. Basically, create your file by taking one of the files as a sample and place it in /etc/init.d. For example, I've copied /etc/init.d/vncserver to /etc/init.d/sample and ran [r...@hakan init.d]# chkconfig --add sample [r...@hakan init.d]# chkconfig --list|grep sample sample 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off Now my sample is there but won't run at all but it's all there. [r...@hakan init.d]# chkconfig sample on [r...@hakan init.d]# chkconfig --list|grep sample sample 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off Now it's on for all of the levels in the comment included in the file. Nevertheless, I could have overriden that with the ckconfig --level levels name on command options to run on other levels. [r...@hakan etc]# find rc* -iname *sample*|sort rc.d/init.d/sample rc.d/rc0.d/K35sample rc.d/rc1.d/K35sample rc.d/rc2.d/S91sample rc.d/rc3.d/S91sample rc.d/rc4.d/S91sample rc.d/rc5.d/S91sample rc.d/rc6.d/K35sample and the file comment looks like below which matches the above, startup priority is 91, kill priority is 35. It will run on all normal levels since it's not defined, excluding 1 (single user), 0 (shutdown) and 6 (reboot). # chkconfig: - 91 35 I better remove this sample from my startup :) What I was looking for is this.. System - Preferences - More Preferences - Sessions - Startup Programs - Add Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Terminal - name too long
Good day, [jo...@unknown2a68 ~]$ How/where could I make the above a lot shorter please. Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Terminal - name too long
John R Pierce wrote: On 11/25/10 12:36 PM, Johan Scheepers wrote: Good day, [jo...@unknown2a68 ~]$ How/where could I make the above a lot shorter please. A) choose a shorter hostname B) change your default prompt via an export PS1= in $HOME/.bashrc see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/bash-prompt-escape-sequences.html for the PS1 options... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos gedit .bashrc # User specific aliases and functions PS1=[jo...@\w] \$ [jo...@~] $ cd /bin [jo...@bin] $ [jo...@bin] $ su root Password: [r...@unknown2a68 bin]# Now only need to fix superuser. Kindly where/how please Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Terminal - name too long
Chris Geldenhuis wrote: Vnpenguin wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 23:02, Johan Scheepers johans...@telkomsa.net wrote: John R Pierce wrote: On 11/25/10 12:36 PM, Johan Scheepers wrote: Good day, [jo...@unknown2a68 ~]$ How/where could I make the above a lot shorter please. A) choose a shorter hostname B) change your default prompt via an export PS1= in $HOME/.bashrc see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/bash-prompt-escape-sequences.html for the PS1 options... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos gedit .bashrc # User specific aliases and functions PS1=[jo...@\w] \$ [jo...@~] $ cd /bin [jo...@bin] $ [jo...@bin] $ su root Password: [r...@unknown2a68 bin]# Now only need to fix superuser. Kindly where/how please * man hostname * vim /etc/sysconfig/network ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Hi Johan, Follow exactly the same procedure that you did with your own login. Edit .basrc in /root and change the PS1 setting there. You have to be root to be able to do this. ChrisG ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thanks Chris, That is what I was looking for. Regards Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] New to Centos
On 18/11/2010 23:22, Niki Kovacs wrote: Johan Scheepers a écrit : I really do appreciate your time spend to solve this. Manual configuration always works, when everything else failed : # init 3 # cd /etc/X11 # mv xorg.conf xorg.conf.orig # cd # X -configure # mv xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf Give it a try : # startx See if you get something, and then we'll see for the next steps. Cheers, Niki _ the command init 3 not found in command line ...user or root. Complain that X is still running with X -configure This is new to me and maybe I am doing something wrong Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] New to Centos
On 19/11/2010 12:00, John Doe wrote: From: Johan Scheepersjohans...@telkomsa.net On 18/11/2010 23:22, Niki Kovacs wrote: Manual configuration always works, when everything else failed : # init 3 # cd /etc/X11 # mv xorg.conf xorg.conf.orig # cd # X -configure # mv xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf Give it a try : # startx the command init 3 not found in command line ...user or root. Complain that X is still running with Be sure to 'su -' and not just 'su'... If you need to find a file, use: 'locate filename'. JD The little dash made the difference. I did not know about it. Sorry.. the resolution stays at 800x600 and option lower. Could we try something else Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] centos 5.5 x86_64 live cd
good day, I am new to centos. Using a standalone laptop. Downloaded and burned the live cd. All seem ok except screen resolution only 800x600. Most importand I do not seem to find the install to hard disk option anywhere. Some distros I tried do have an option to install on the screen when you are happy about the OS. Googled but could not find the howto for the live cd install. Kindly please..Is the live CD installable. Thanks Regards Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] New to Centos
Good day, I would like to first test and then use centos 5.5. I downloaded centos 5.5 x86_64 live CD. Problem...screen resolution only 800x600. In fedora 14 it is 1024x768, same in debian squeeze and opensuse11.3. Could there be a way to increase the resolution? in either i386 or x86_64. Thanks Regards Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] New to Centos
On 18/11/2010 20:37, Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Johan Scheepersjohans...@telkomsa.net wrote: Good day, I would like to first test and then use centos 5.5. I downloaded centos 5.5 x86_64 live CD. Problem...screen resolution only 800x600. In fedora 14 it is 1024x768, same in debian squeeze and opensuse11.3. Could there be a way to increase the resolution? in either i386 or x86_64. Thanks Regards Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos What graphics card monitor do you have? In debian this... jo...@johan:~$ lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10) jo...@johan:~$ xdpyinfo | grep dimensions dimensions:1024x768 pixels (339x203 millimeters) Ok, I did look into system-monitors and only 800x600 was available. Remember this is a live CD x86_64. Thanks Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] New to Centos
On 18/11/2010 21:38, Les Mikesell wrote: On 11/18/2010 1:21 PM, Johan Scheepers wrote: What graphics cardmonitor do you have? In debian this... jo...@johan:~$ lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10) jo...@johan:~$ xdpyinfo | grep dimensions dimensions:1024x768 pixels (339x203 millimeters) Ok, I did look into system-monitors and only 800x600 was available. Remember this is a live CD x86_64. I think that means it wasn't able to auto-detect the monitor type. Can you set it in system/administration/display in the hardware tab? Ok, have to shut down debian and boot centos. Be back. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] New to Centos
On 18/11/2010 21:38, Les Mikesell wrote: On 11/18/2010 1:21 PM, Johan Scheepers wrote: What graphics cardmonitor do you have? In debian this... jo...@johan:~$ lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10) jo...@johan:~$ xdpyinfo | grep dimensions dimensions:1024x768 pixels (339x203 millimeters) Ok, I did look into system-monitors and only 800x600 was available. Remember this is a live CD x86_64. I think that means it wasn't able to auto-detect the monitor type. Can you set it in system/administration/display in the hardware tab? While booting I had a closer look at the screen and saw.. unsupported sis chipset (device i/d 0671). Looked into hardware..reverted to vesa driver. Set it to sis card and logged out..system complained and went into non-graphics. Went through screen options and eventualy back to graphics and vesa. Had the same problem with debian and a list member after a lot of suffering found a work around in the xorg.conf. After that it works fine. the specific sis card seem to be problemic in some OS's. suse and fedora seem to have no problem. Fedora..could not find a xorg.conf file?. Maybe copy it. If centos resolution problem be not fixable I will have to pass. Would be a pitty. I really do appreciate your time spend to solve this. Regards Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
