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I pressed the tab "probe" by mistake near "bind to MAC address" in system->administration->network->edit->hardware device. After this the MAC address disappeared. Internet is not working. Shall I write the MAC address and activate again? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I have centOS5.3 installed in the system. I have never updated it but now am planning to update. While doing "yum update", is there any possibility that the update might hamper the execution of any software/application installed on the system? Is there anything particular to note before updating the system? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

After giving command "yum update openoffice" the output is: Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: centos.aol.in * updates: ftp.oss.eznetsols.org * addons: centos.aol.in * extras: centos.aol.in Setting up Update Process No Packages marked for Update -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Want to install CentOS 5.5 by burning the image on DVD. On the link: http://mirrors.hns.net.in/centos/5.5/isos/x86_64/, there is a list given. CentOS-5.5-x86 64-bin-DVD.torrent is in the list. So is the download of the .iso possible only through torrent? There is CentOS-5.5-x86 64-netinstall.iso Is this also an .iso which one can download to install CentOS5.5? -------------- next part

CentOS 5.5 is installed in the system. I installed the package kmod-ntfs-2.1.27-3.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm I mounted Seagate external hard disk. I am able to copy contents from the hard disk to the system but not from the system to the hard disk. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

There was no proxy in the file /etc/yum.conf. I specified the proxy setting and now "yum list updates" is working. A part of the output was: Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: centos.01link.hk * updates: centos.01link.hk * addons: centos.01link.hk * extras: centos.01link.hk Updated Packages ImageMagick.i386

Before doing "yum update" on system which has CentOS5.3, I gave "yum list updates" but the following message comes: Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Determining fastest mirrors Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=x86_64&repo=os error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')> Error: Cannot find

I am working in Centos5.5. Pen drive, hard disk, cd are not being recognised. During booting, "mounting local filesystems [failed]" is displayed among other errors which I am unable to see as the messages proceed fast. Are these messages stored in some file, so that I can check them and report all the errors that are displayed during booting. -------------- next part -------------- An

Happy new year :D i have just installed centos 5.5 on my vmware to test my server,i found that i need nasm x64 to compile my assembly code,the yum database only has 0.98 version which does not support 64bit. the nasm version 2(rpm from offcial site) requires glibc 2.7, i know its a core component, but is there a way to upgrade it without break system? thanks for your time :D NamoBhagavan Max

After installing kmod-fuse rpm, I had given "/dev/sda3 /mnt/win ntfs rw,umask=0000,defaults" in the file /etc/fstab. Then I gave mount /mnt/win. But I couldn't copy files from system to the hard disk so I removed kmod-fuse by rpm -e command. I installed fuse-ntfs-3g rpm. Now what are the changes that have to be made on the file /etc/fstab? -------------- next part

Whenever the system boots there is sound ( beep ). Is there any way to disable it? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101210/8baed23d/attachment-0002.html>

In centos 5.5 system->administration->logical volume management comes whereas in centos5.3 i don't see the option logical volume management under system->administration. How to see it? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110109/5f6917d0/attachment-0002.html>

When I give the command "cp file1 file2" then the error comes: cp: cannot create regular file `file2': Input/output error This occurs sometimes and it occurs when I am giving the command inside a external hard disk which is mounted by "ntfs-3g" manually. Why does this error come? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I can't understand exactly what these security updates do? Why is there a need to have a security update? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101011/8da04cea/attachment-0002.html>

Then, is there any other way to mount external hard disk as ntfs in read write mode? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110116/fbdcf7e8/attachment-0002.html>

Can CentOS be installed on an extended partition? System has the following partitions: OEM(reserved)-78MB(primary) System-100MB(primary) C-55GB(primary) D-100GB(extended) Can I divide D into 2 parts:70GB and 30GB and install CentOS in the 70GB logical partition? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Everytime after giving command "ooffice" on terminal, the following message comes on terminal: libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x5b -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101015/124b380e/attachment-0002.html>

I did installation of CentOS5.5 in text mode and made changes at the following places in the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf : section "device" identifier : "vesa" driver:"vesa" section "screen" device:"vesa" Also in the file /etc/inittab I changed id:3:initdefault to id:5:initdefault so that I can boot linux in graphical mode. I had to make the changes

I installed CentOS5.5 on Dell Inspiron N5010. During partitioning, when I created swap = 6GB then additional 4MB free space was created and when I created ext3 for linux=217GB, then additional 7MB free space was created. Didn't understand why these 2 extra free spaces were created. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I have CentOS5.3 installed on the system. I have updated firefox to firefox-3.6.11-2.el5.centos. While doing any work on the internet, suddenly the system logs out. What can be the problem? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101101/555a4463/attachment-0002.html>