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Hello list, I try to do an automated network installation of centos 5.2, following the redat documentation at http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/pt-install-info.html However, when installing I get promptet for various things, like which network interface I would like to use for installation, or the location of the install medium. But thats not what I

Help solving a performance mystery would be welcome. I have two test programs: * one totally CPU bound (it just infinitely loops) * the other I/O bound (it loops, each time doing * a write, * an fsync or fdatasync (I get similar behavior with either), * an lseek to back up to the same position again Under ext2, if I run these two together, they each run nearly as fast as

Hi, just out of curiosity: Within a kickstart postinstall script, I tried to do a loop mount, which failed. It turns out that there is no /dev/loop0 (no /dev/loop<x>). After creating it with mknod /dev/loop0 b 7 0 everything works fine. Now this script executes in the chroot system. This is the system on the hd. A plain chroot system should not have any /dev or /proc mounted. But