kickstart network settings
hi, according to http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-options.htmlin a kickstart file I can use this: network --onboot yes --bootproto dhcp --device bootif --noipv6 to have network config from dhcp without ipv6 on the network boot interface. Unfortunately it still prompts me to configure tcp/ip. Is anybody else seeing this behaviour on sl6.2? -- Groeten, natxo
Re: kickstart network settings
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com wrote: according to http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html in a kickstart file I can use this: network --onboot yes --bootproto dhcp --device bootif --noipv6 to have network config from dhcp without ipv6 on the network boot interface. Unfortunately it still prompts me to configure tcp/ip. Add --activate.
Re: Difference between the various SL6 repos?
On 05/30/2012 04:55 PM, Stefan Lasiewski wrote: And for continuity, I'll point out that there was a similar, lengthy discussion on this topic in September 2011. Here is the thread started by Tanmoy Chatterjee: http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1109L=SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERST=0I=-3X=5E3D186375663BCF45Y=slasiewski%40lbl.govP=26572 Is there any reliable summary of this information, rather like a matrix that describes characteristics of the relevant EL6 repos? Examples of matrix columns (assuming the rows lists the repos): paid professional or volunteer maintained? (E.g., Fermilab/CERN has paid professional staff assigned to SL) Timeliness of updates (e.g., only TUV based, or fixes/extensions before TUV)? Strict separation of production RPMs from beta RPMs? Particular emphases? A matrix or a similar data structure would save all of the time digging through a threaded discussion. Yasha Karant
Re: Difference between the various SL6 repos?
On 06/05/2012 12:42 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: On 05/30/2012 04:55 PM, Stefan Lasiewski wrote: And for continuity, I'll point out that there was a similar, lengthy discussion on this topic in September 2011. Here is the thread started by Tanmoy Chatterjee: http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1109L=SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERST=0I=-3X=5E3D186375663BCF45Y=slasiewski%40lbl.govP=26572 Is there any reliable summary of this information, rather like a matrix that describes characteristics of the relevant EL6 repos? Examples of matrix columns (assuming the rows lists the repos): paid professional or volunteer maintained? You answered your own question right here. What paid professional is paid to maintain such a list? And if it matters to you that a repo is maintained by a paid staff, then you'd probably also not trust a list maintained by voltunteers (Who would validate the list to standard? And what employer sets the standard?). So if you yourself decided to create such a list it would be in your spare time as a volunteer effort, thereby invalidating its use by others who want such a list and only trust work performed by paid staff for said purpose. Etc. This is a circular line of questioning which crops up from time to time; the answer remains the same.
Re: kickstart network settings
hi, On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com wrote: according to http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html in a kickstart file I can use this: network --onboot yes --bootproto dhcp --device bootif --noipv6 to have network config from dhcp without ipv6 on the network boot interface. Unfortunately it still prompts me to configure tcp/ip. Add --activate. with: network --activate --onboot yes --bootproto dhcp --device bootif --noipv6 it still prompts to configure tcp/ip. Strange. -- Groeten, Natxo
Re: How to put DVD on USB? / And then install from USB?
On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 05:52:50 PM you wrote: Could someone please provide with a simple and efficient way to install S.L from a USB stick? I have had so many problems with this, tried so many methods and failed so often... I have also wasted so so much time on this... :o( Please I need a linux/SL guru to shed some light on this! 1) I tried with dd, it alomost never works... 2) the livecd-iso-to-disk method works ok but I cannot start my box without the usb stick... Many motherboards will cause an attached USB disk/stick to become /dev/sda as seen by the Linux kernel. You have to work around this separately when installing, and make sure you remember to install the bootloader to whatever drive actually is the boot drive for the installed system. The installer gives you options to change the BIOS order of the drives and put the bootloader to any of them. The CentOS wiki contains most of this information, and most of that is applicable to SL as well as upstream EL. See in particular: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey I have done several USB-key based CentOS installs using information from this wiki article, both CentOS 5 and CentOS 6, and I would expect that ScientificLinux would work the same way.
Re: Difference between the various SL6 repos?
On 06/04/2012 10:14 AM, zxq9 wrote: On 06/05/2012 12:42 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: On 05/30/2012 04:55 PM, Stefan Lasiewski wrote: And for continuity, I'll point out that there was a similar, lengthy discussion on this topic in September 2011. Here is the thread started by Tanmoy Chatterjee: http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1109L=SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERST=0I=-3X=5E3D186375663BCF45Y=slasiewski%40lbl.govP=26572 Is there any reliable summary of this information, rather like a matrix that describes characteristics of the relevant EL6 repos? Examples of matrix columns (assuming the rows lists the repos): paid professional or volunteer maintained? You answered your own question right here. What paid professional is paid to maintain such a list? And if it matters to you that a repo is maintained by a paid staff, then you'd probably also not trust a list maintained by voltunteers (Who would validate the list to standard? And what employer sets the standard?). So if you yourself decided to create such a list it would be in your spare time as a volunteer effort, thereby invalidating its use by others who want such a list and only trust work performed by paid staff for said purpose. Etc. This is a circular line of questioning which crops up from time to time; the answer remains the same. I am not attempting to start an off-topic discussion. The answer to the question is pertinent to practical use of the distro. This is not circular reasoning. Both the SL (Fermilab/CERN) and PUIAS (Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study) EL distributions/repos are maintained by a paid professional staff -- albeit lightly maintained compared to the resources expended by TUV or other for-profit corporations. Although the maintainers may have additional duties assigned to them by their employers, both distros have paid professionals directly involved as part of their immediate and continuing duties. In the case of a more typical university such as my own institution, we mostly have relatively short term GSRAs doing this work with some assistance from advanced undergraduate students, supervised by tenure-line Faculty members who have many other responsibilities (including getting the external funding to support research, as well as producing papers, funding proposals, conference presentations, university shared governance, and a host of other duties, such as direct classroom instruction). However, having a paid professional staff, with professional expertise, typically produces a more robust product (unless for-profit management personnel dictate otherwise) and allows software to be maintained. Back to my question: is there such a matrix? Has anyone -- paid professional or volunteer -- prepared such a matrix? Or must one dig through numerous listserve threads to garner the information, essentially anew for each person doing the digging? Yasha Karant
Re: Difference between the various SL6 repos?
On 4 June 2012 21:10, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote: Back to my question: is there such a matrix? Has anyone -- paid professional or volunteer -- prepared such a matrix? Or must one dig through numerous listserve threads to garner the information, essentially anew for each person doing the digging? Answer one: No. Answer two: No. Answer three: Yes.
cgred
TUV shows: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=715413 Although the above URL contains: Product:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Component: libcgroup (Show other bugs) Version(s): 6.3 Platform: All Linux I am running SL 6x IA-32 on my laptop, and the cgred bug has appeared on the laptop. I did a quick perusal of the SL list, and did not find a mention of the cgred bug. cgred uses the same numerical GID as that of my own group on my laptop in the 500 range. On my workstation that is using SL 6x X86-64, cgred appears to be a group number in the 500 range but not my group, again evidently a bug if I understand the TUV bugzilla report listed above. In a worse case, I can manually -- using the file names but not the actual X86-64 binary files -- find out on my workstation which directories/files should be in group cgred, as on my workstation this is a different numerical GID than my own GID, and manually do the changes on my laptop -- at least until the next update that may undo such work if the cgred group bug still is present. Is there an automatic solution from SL/TUV? Yasha Karant Is there a valid fix for SL 6x? Yasha Karant
Re: Difference between the various SL6 repos?
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote: Back to my question: is there such a matrix? Has anyone -- paid professional or volunteer -- prepared such a matrix? http://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/faq/yum.apt.repo [ It's pretty funny to see apt is in the URL! :) ]
Re: cgred
The bug report you linked to says that the fix is in TUV's FasTrack repo - I believe the SL analogue is FastBugs, so I'd try libcgroup-0.37-3 from there and see if it resolves it. Failing that, wait for 6.3, which is currently being tested for release by TUV. Adam Bishop Access Identity Management Janet, the UK’s education and research network On 4 Jun 2012, at 23:18, Yasha Karant wrote: TUV shows: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=715413 Although the above URL contains: Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Component:libcgroup (Show other bugs) Version(s): 6.3 Platform: All Linux I am running SL 6x IA-32 on my laptop, and the cgred bug has appeared on the laptop. I did a quick perusal of the SL list, and did not find a mention of the cgred bug. cgred uses the same numerical GID as that of my own group on my laptop in the 500 range. On my workstation that is using SL 6x X86-64, cgred appears to be a group number in the 500 range but not my group, again evidently a bug if I understand the TUV bugzilla report listed above. In a worse case, I can manually -- using the file names but not the actual X86-64 binary files -- find out on my workstation which directories/files should be in group cgred, as on my workstation this is a different numerical GID than my own GID, and manually do the changes on my laptop -- at least until the next update that may undo such work if the cgred group bug still is present. Is there an automatic solution from SL/TUV? Yasha Karant Is there a valid fix for SL 6x? Yasha Karant Janet is a trading name of The JNT Association, a company limited by guarantee which is registered in England under No. 2881024 and whose Registered Office is at Lumen House, Library Avenue, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, Oxfordshire. OX11 0SG
Re: Difference between the various SL6 repos?
On 06/04/2012 04:19 PM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Yasha Karantykar...@csusb.edu wrote: Back to my question: is there such a matrix? Has anyone -- paid professional or volunteer -- prepared such a matrix? http://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/faq/yum.apt.repo [ It's pretty funny to see apt is in the URL! :) ] Thank you -- however, I have seen this URL and I do note that the discussion stops with S.L. 5.x with no discussion of either SL 6.x (not the same as SL 6x -- the full stop is significant) or the Princeton EL distro/repos (as well as others). Moreover, there is no discussion of the relative quality or reliability of these various repos; e.g., is the practical definition/criteria between production and pre-production (beta or earlier) RPMs the same on each of these repos? Yasha Karant
