Folks
I tried the net-install, because my computer has no DVD, only a CD.
The system has a USB connected keyboard, and it works just fine
accessing the built-in BIOS.
However, when I booted the netinstall CD, the initial screen which
asks for the type of installation did not respond to the keyboard. I
was therefore forced to wait the 30-seconds for the timeout, at which
point the install screen showed up and the keyboard worked.
I fear that the net-install image may not support USB keyboards,
which if so, is unfortunate.
The alternate of burning multiple CDs (as I've done with earlier
versions) appears unavailable in CENTOS 6.
Furthermore, I was never given the choice of using a GUI or text
install; I guess the old display device isn't supported in the
install system. Not being given any choices of packages during the
install (a fact noted in the release notes) resulted, however, a
system where a lot of the expected utility programs weren't there.:
a) "yum" worked
b) No SSH client appeared to exist, nor did YUM know about it.
c) Several useful utilities were not there, so they had to be
installed via yum.
As a result, the process of bringing this system to a usable state
consisted of:
1) Burn net-install CD
2) Answer the few questions.
3) For the net-install site, use
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.0/os/i386
4) When it boots, use yum:
yum install ftp perl unzip
5)
COMMENT: One of the nice properties of Linux has been that it can be
installed and run on "old" hardware. I wonder if this feature is
going away.
David
david wrote:> COMMENT: One of the nice properties of Linux has been that it can be > installed and run on "old" hardware. I wonder if this feature is going away.CentOS dev team will, in next few days release several general purpose CD's Like Minimal server CD and Minimal Installation CD. LiveCD should also be coming soon and hopefully it will have "Install on HDD" option to help you install from CD device. CentOS 6 was not really intended for slower systems, none of the newer distros are. CentOS 6 kernel for example does not support 586 CPU's. Best advice for people with CD's is please be patient and wait several days untill additional media is created. Ljubomir
On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 08:54:56 AM Drew wrote:> > CentOS 6 was not really intended for slower systems, none of the newer > > distros are. CentOS 6 kernel for example does not support 586 CPU's. > > I'd like to know where you read that because I'm looking at putting > CentOS 6 onto a couple of lower end boxes, specifically a > P3-800(mobile) and an older VIA EPIA, which are fully supported in > CentOS 5.EL6 of any flavor needs more horsepower than EL5 of any flavor. Read the installation minimum requirements, both from the centos.org site and the redhat.com site. PAE is required, for instance. 392MB of RAM is the minimum to install, for another. EL5 will be supported for a while yet, and it may be the best choice for your needs. I have a few older boxes, too (some *much* older than a PPro, even) and it's just going to be a simple fact that EL6 is just not going to run there. There are lighter linuxes out there that are still up to date; Alpine, for instance, as well as TinyCore. I quote those because they both seem to be recently updated and both seem to have reasonably modern packages available; and neither require a lot of horsepower for the base system. Some Linux variants still work fine with older stuff; upstream has decided that EL6 is not one of them.
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:37 AM, david <david at daku.org> wrote:> Folks > > I tried the net-install, because my computer has no DVD, only a CD. > The system has a USB connected keyboard, and it works just fine > accessing the built-in BIOS. > > However, when I booted the netinstall CD, the initial screen which > asks for the type of installation did not respond to the keyboard. I > was therefore forced to wait the 30-seconds for the timeout, at which > point the install screen showed up and the keyboard worked. > > I fear that the net-install image may not support USB keyboards, > which if so, is unfortunate. > > The alternate of burning multiple CDs (as I've done with earlier > versions) appears unavailable in CENTOS 6. > > Furthermore, I was never given the choice of using a GUI or text > install; I guess the old display device isn't supported in the > install system. Not being given any choices of packages during the > install (a fact noted in the release notes) resulted, however, a > system where a lot of the expected utility programs weren't there.: > a) "yum" worked > b) No SSH client appeared to exist, nor did YUM know about it. > c) Several useful utilities were not there, so they had to be > installed via yum. >you need > 652MB of ram for the GUI install: http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.0#head-710e17fe8ed8c98a1fe4faee4e11e2135df09fff> > As a result, the process of bringing this system to a usable state > consisted of: > 1) Burn net-install CD > 2) Answer the few questions. > 3) For the net-install site, use > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.0/os/i386 > 4) When it boots, use yum: > yum install ftp perl unzip > 5) > > > > > > COMMENT: One of the nice properties of Linux has been that it can be > installed and run on "old" hardware. I wonder if this feature is going > away. > > David > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110712/4e629afd/attachment-0002.html>
On 07/11/2011 08:37 PM, david wrote:> I fear that the net-install image may not support USB keyboards, > which if so, is unfortunate. >that is not true, I've done a couple of installs on machines that only hae usb keyboards and its been fine. Could it be a model / bios / firmware issue ? - KB