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I have a functional CentOS system on which I need to install Windows for dual boot. I can make some space available on a high partition. Can WIndows be installed on partition 8 (starting with 1)? I have always done it on the first partition. Thanks, Tony Schreiner Boston College

I cannot run ifconfig even with su. Is this available as only an added package or something? Thanks for any help. -Brad

Ok, on to new swamps. I would like to enable PPTP on CentOS4 to accept connections from clients running MicroSoft Win2K and XP pro from outside our firewall. I am testing pptpd-1.2.3-0 and tells me that I need kernel support for MPPE, which I suppose is MicroSoft's own form of PtoP encryption. Is there a way of doing this without rebuilding the kernel? If so, how? Regards, Jim --

...u don't have to play with NTLDR. I know that this goes against just about every Dual-Boot HOWTO you will find on the net. It just works. It has on every dual-boot install I have ever done. Jeff >>> mckagan at gmail.com 8/12/2005 9:09:25 AM >>> On 8/12/05, Tony Schreiner <schreian at bc.edu> wrote: > On Aug 12, 2005, at 9:44 AM, David Evennou wrote: > > > OK, thanks! > > > > Yes, I would like the information to get Windows XP running after > > installing > > GRUB on the MBR. > > > > > Add these lines to your /etc/grub....

I have a system (Centos 4.4 all packages uptodate) where almost every rpm or yum operation fails with a message like e.g.: error: %preun(a2ps-4.13b-41.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 some times the error is on %post() the last few lines of output from rpm -e -vv a2ps are D: ========== --- a2ps-4.13b-41 i386-linux 0x1 D: erase: a2ps-4.13b-41 has 316 files, test = 0 D: opening db

This may not be a CentOS problem, because I'm in a mixed environment. But I put it out in case anybody has any thoughts. I recently replaced a file server, which was on a Pentium III based system running 32-bit CentOS 4.3, with an Opteron based system running Fedora 4. The NFS clients are all CentOS 4.3, some are 32 bit and some are 64 bit. Since the replacement, when I try to write

I recently aquired a Verisign SSL certificate for my web server on Centos 4, with apache 2.0.59 from centosplus. It however doesn't seem to be working the way I've set it up, browsers connect but are told the certiticate is not recognized. Showing more info, the information looks correct. I think it has probably to do with the fact that I'm using the certificate on a virtual

I'm running into an a problem with x11 forwarding over ssh I'm trying to run an application (rasmol - molecule viewing program) which when using the the default setup for x11 forwarding causes the following error: X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) Major opcode of failed request: 132 (MIT-SHM) Minor opcode of failed request: 1

I've so far been unable to make the following work: I have a small cluster with a master node ( called bayes.bc.edu on the public network, and called master.cl.bc.edu on the internal 10.0.0.0 network). and a number of nodes which are purely on the private network. I want the master to receive mail and deliver locally (or use .forward and alias rules) to messages sent from the nodes

WIth the latest kernel 2.6.9-34.0.1 the kernel-devel is an install, but kernel-smp-devel is an update for example $ sudo yum update kernel\* --disablerepo=dell-software -- disablerepo=jpackage-generic Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.

I am trying kickstart for the first time, and am running into something I don't see described in the documentation. Somewhere between me and my purchasing department and Dell, my order for 6 PE 1850s was changed from "no installed OS" to WIndows. So I received the boxes with Windows pre-installed. I would like to delete the NTFS partition with Windows, but keep the Dell

I've set up a CentOS 5 system as a server for http installs. Currently up-to-date with httpd-2.2.3-11.el5_1.centos.3 mod_security-2.1.7-1.el5 my installs were failing just after the root password set up, before software selection. I tracked it down to a server error 500 and it was due to mod_security claiming the comps.xml file was too big The error: [Tue Jun 10 09:59:01 2008] [error]

When I install openmpi, openmpi-libs and openmpi-devel (using yum) for CentOS 5, I'm not getting anything set in alternatives for mpi- run and mpicc, etc. Is it supposed to? Cheers, Tony Schreiner Boston College

Is there a way to tell from the OS whether the PCI-X bus is version 2 or not? Tony Schreiner

I installed kmod-xfs-0.4-2 back with kernel-2.6.18-92.1.13. I have updated kernels but there have been no new kmod-xfs. It still works because of weak-updates (I guess). Currently: # find /lib/modules -name xfs.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.1.13.el5/extra/xfs/xfs.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.1.13.el5/weak-updates/xfs/xfs.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.1.17.el5/weak-updates/xfs/xfs.ko

Using the yum-fastestmirror plugin on CentOS 5. The mirror that gets selected seems to be always the same one, and the particular one for my EPEL channel is slow as sin (often 30 kB/sec or less). Ctrl-C moves to the next one which is satisfactory, but it's a pain to have to do that every time. Is there a way to prevent a particular mirror from being selected? I can remove the entry

I've recently begun to try out LVM snapshots and I have 2 things I'm wondering about My intention is to run backups off the snapshot. As a first iteration, I left 15% of the disk for the snapshot LV. 1. The HOWTO instructions suggest that the snapshot is in effect as long as the snapshot LV exists, and use lvremove to disable the snapshot. Is this the proper way? 2. I chose 15%

Hi I just did my first upgrade from 4 to 5 and for the most everything looks great. Thanks for everything so far. I did notice, that now I have glibc.i386 installed instead of glibc.i686, arch is set to i686 and the i686 kernels did get installed. Tony Schreiner Boston College

Is there a way to log outbound connections to a specific port (80)? CentOS 4.6. iptables? Thanks Tony Schreiner Boston College

First, I want to thank Karanbir for the centos extras repo. I have a question about dkms. I have several Dell PowerEdge systems with Centos 4, and kbs-CentOS- Extras and dell-software repos enabled. Is there any possible conflict if I allow yum to update dkms from dell-software instead of kbs-CentOS-Extras? Currently the i386 architecture has version 2.0.11- in dell-software and 2.0.10-1