Re: [CentOS] DomU install failure for Centos 5.5 using the RHEL 5.4 and greater OS option

2010-07-15 Thread m . roth
David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
 Had some trouble getting Centos x64 installed as a guest in my new Centos
 5.5 x64 server using Xen (thanks again for all the help getting the
 hardware virtualization turned on and confirmed yesterday!).

 When I chose OS Linux, and whatever they called the detailed OS subtype I
 chose the Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 and greater, and then tried to install
 Centos 5.5, the install started and I got into the graphics installer, but
 when it was supposed to start installing individual packages the whole
 virt-manager and console window hung.  Three times, at that same point.
 (I was monitoring web traffic to the install files it was working from,
 and it wasn't fetching files, either).

Don't look at me - I never use the graphical one; I always start the
installer with linux text, and I think I can get to some things easier.
IIRC, you can also alt-F2 or something, and get another shell prompt.

  mark


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Re: [CentOS] DomU install failure for Centos 5.5 using the RHEL 5.4 and greater OS option

2010-07-15 Thread Whit Blauvelt
In using virt-install, and then virt-viewer to create a CentOS 5.5 x64 guest
(in my case for KVM), using the text mode for the install, it failed on me
in a similar way just if I added extra package groups - just stalled. It
went forward successfully if I just went with the standard default at that
point, and waited until post-install to yum other components into the guest.

Whit

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:57:24AM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
 David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
  Had some trouble getting Centos x64 installed as a guest in my new Centos
  5.5 x64 server using Xen (thanks again for all the help getting the
  hardware virtualization turned on and confirmed yesterday!).
 
  When I chose OS Linux, and whatever they called the detailed OS subtype I
  chose the Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 and greater, and then tried to install
  Centos 5.5, the install started and I got into the graphics installer, but
  when it was supposed to start installing individual packages the whole
  virt-manager and console window hung.  Three times, at that same point.
  (I was monitoring web traffic to the install files it was working from,
  and it wasn't fetching files, either).
 
 Don't look at me - I never use the graphical one; I always start the
 installer with linux text, and I think I can get to some things easier.
 IIRC, you can also alt-F2 or something, and get another shell prompt.
 
   mark
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Re: [CentOS] DomU install failure for Centos 5.5 using the RHEL 5.4 and greater OS option

2010-07-15 Thread David Dyer-Bennet

On Thu, July 15, 2010 11:19, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
 In using virt-install, and then virt-viewer to create a CentOS 5.5 x64
 guest
 (in my case for KVM), using the text mode for the install, it failed on me
 in a similar way just if I added extra package groups - just stalled. It
 went forward successfully if I just went with the standard default at that
 point, and waited until post-install to yum other components into the
 guest.

That may be the relevant variable in my case as well; I'll watch more
carefully.  I did get a 5.5 OS install to work, and I may have selected
only the server group instead of that and the server gui group.

I'm mostly happy using text configs, except I keep running into cases
where the manuals or helpful people on the net assume I'm using the GUI,
so I've gotten in the habit of installing it when I get a choice.

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Re: [CentOS] DomU install failure for Centos 5.5 using the RHEL 5.4 and greater OS option

2010-07-15 Thread m . roth
Whit Blauvelt wrote:
 In using virt-install, and then virt-viewer to create a CentOS 5.5 x64
 guest
 (in my case for KVM), using the text mode for the install, it failed on me
 in a similar way just if I added extra package groups - just stalled. It
 went forward successfully if I just went with the standard default at that
 point, and waited until post-install to yum other components into the
 guest.

Ok, that works. *shrug* You should see the loong list of stuff I have to
do when I build a new system, including a lot of additional packages, and
editing (such as for nfs mounting of home directories, and mail)

   mark

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