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> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Hoffman
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 9:14 PM
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> Subject: CentOS 6 is a bear
>
> Gotta say, centos has been tough to install and get working.
>
> The anaconda installer makes large drive setups horridly
> tedious (especially if reinstalling a lot).
>
> Package selection seems a bit off...
>
> I did a virtualization package, no custom..did not install
> qemu, libvirt, and all attempts to do any virtualization
> failed due to non-installed packages.
>
> Then I decided to select all the virtualization packages in
> custom, but had selected 'web server' as the base package. I
> was never able to connect to the net here at
> home...apparently some things with 'modprobe'
> did not install and the eth devices 'does not exist' or
> something like that.
>
> Then I decided on the entire gnome package, with all the
> bells and whistles...everything worked, but who wants that? I
> removed some packages in gnome to see and reboot made machine dead.
> Did that 4 different times with very few package removals.
>
> Did a number of various tries with custom selections, but the
> dependencies seem to not be grabbing all it needs to work.
> Never got a non gnome setup to recognize eth devices (well,
> one time, but it never was able to get the net).
>
> I just installed a custom set up, all virtualization
> packages- virtualization selected as base. I added some gnome
> stuff and a few other doo dads.....booted up..went right to
> the command line.... no virt software works, errors
> everywhere. Display will not come up (x, vnc, or gnome no
> matter what)..
>
> Every installation, in first boot up had major missing or odd
> problems.
> One time I booted up with a gnome set up and selinux was
> stopping 5 differetn gdm programs..at boot...due to security
> risks... wtf?
>
> Any attempt to disable or make selinux permissive results in
> a dead machine, unable to ever boot again (left one up for 12
> hours, never came back up, thought it was relabeling, but no message.)
>
> Removing packages with the gnome running only worked about
> 10% of the time, all others resulted in dead machine at reboot.
>
> I am considering, the only way to actually install and use
> this as a virtualized host is to go full desktop and hope the
> selinux enforcing will not break the system (with all the
> programs it will not let run on boot)...
>
> I have never, not once, been able to connect to the net in
> the command line setups...I know how to configure eths,
> network, dns, etc...not once, not even dhcp..config eth0 up,
> etc.. Gnome has not a single issue with the same exact file
> setups.. Many command line setups would not even see the eth
> devices, something about modprobe this or that not installed.....wth?
>
> quite an interesting task. I have now taken the server out of
> the center and am just going to endlessly install until I get
> a system that is low resources and actually allows the
> virtualization to work.
>
> My last install, with all virt packages selected...?.....
> cannot run virt-manager, libvirt, though some virt programs
> do work...why?
> something each needed to run was not installed as a
> dependency....<smacks head>
>
> Reinstalling would not be so bad, but the anaconda installer
> does not quite set up the drives the same on a reinstall
> forcing a deletion of partitions and redoing the entire
> setup..quite annoying
>
> /rant off
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Dooood!!
I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I initally installed CentOS
6.0 as a desktop and added from there. After that, I uninstalled the
'fluff'.
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