| Dyson | alleycat: and there is a directive called "cmdline" that can be used to force the installer to run in plain shell mode alleycat: it helped me a lot when debugging my kickstart-installations, because you don't get a fancy gui that hides all the interesting stuff |
| alleycat | Dyson: can you post it somewhere, please ? looks like you have plenty of goodies I did not know about... |
| Dyson | alleycat: I'd like to |
| Foddz | is there a way to permanently rename an interface (say from 'eth0' to something else)? I'm familiar with the nameif command to change the interface's name, but when I reboot the machine, 'eth0' is back. |
| alleycat | Foddz: I think that if you use another name inside the ifcfg-name it will be used as such Dyson: pastebin? dcc ? |
| Dyson | Foddz: in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX if there is a HWADDR line the interface will be renamed |
| Foddz | thank you Dyson, I'll take a look. |
| Dyson | Foddz: i.e. when the interface name is set and hwaddr is set the interface with the corresponding hwaddr will be renamed to the name given alleycat: wiki.centos.org :) |
| alleycat | Dyson: and from there? nothing obvious in tips&tricks / howto |
| range | alleycat: Not yet :) |
| Dyson | alleycat: yeah, I'm just about to write it :) |
| Tourner | ooops, thanks for the reply alleycat - for some reason I got all the replies until now in one block! |
| IonutVan | did somebody install the new openvz kernel based on redhat 5 ? this include both virtualization software: xen and openvz? |
| cleanpro | question for anyone who can answer... in the /etc/ dir does anyone not have files in that dir? other than folders? all i have is an inittab and a hault file... i just copied the inittab from the live cd, but should i do all the other files as well? |
| alleycat | cleanpro: at least password, shadow and groups should be there plus crontab, rc.sysinit... |
| cleanpro | i just copied all the files from the live cd CRAP! i copied the new inittab file from the live cd and reboot, and i still get the no inittab file found!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| alleycat | cleanpro: if you mounted the hard disk using the live cd, you should have seen the content of /etc if it was empty.. you have more problems, not just a missing inittab are you sure the hardware is OK ? |
| so_ | z00dax had reported this problem when upgrading to the beta on x86_64, I have seen 3 or 4 people with this inittab problem now too |
| cleanpro | i saw the content of etc there were folders but no inittab, or password, shadow, groups, etc..... |
| alleycat | so_: but cleanpro is on c4 not beta, AFAIK cleanpro: are you using centos 4 or 5 beta ? |
| cleanpro | centos 4 unless my system did an automatic upgrade that i'm unaware of.... |
| alleycat | cleanpro: are you 1000.00 % sure that there was no rm /etc/* ? |
| cleanpro | i have even bigger problems now. i restarted and it still says no inittab, so i rebooted with the live cd again... and now my mnt/sda6 file is completely empty!!!! alleycat: what do you mean rd /etc/* ? * rm/etc/* |