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On 10/14/2014 06:36 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> CentOS 7.0, however, was a mess. |
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> It took three attempts and almost an entire day of work. |
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I run it on my home server. It works pretty well for me. |
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> My first attempt was to use the "minimal" ISO image so that I would |
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> have the option of burning a CD if needed (I can't burn DVDs at the |
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> moment). That was a mistake. It was too minimal, and I couldn't get |
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> the network working to the point where I could configure repositories |
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> and install other stuff. Since the CentOS 7 ISO images all boot from |
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> USB flash drive anyway, staying under the 700MB CD size limit was moot |
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> anyway. |
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> |
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> Next I tried the net install ISO. I'm guessing I could have burned |
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> the DVD image to USB drive, but all I want is a minimal desktop |
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> system, so I figured why wait for a download of 3.5GB of stuff I don't |
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> care about. |
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> |
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> It still didn't recognize the NVidia Ethernet controller on my |
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> 5-year-old motherboard. After some cable swapping and futzing around, |
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> I got the netinstall going using the Realtek NIC. |
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> Maybe I just got unlucky and picked a slow mirror site, but once I got |
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> the install going, it ran for over 3 hours when installing a vanilla |
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> Gnome desktop system. Compare that with a 15 minute download time for |
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> a 700MB Xubuntu CD and then a 15 minute install. |
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> CentOS 7 refused to install the bootloader in a partition: your only |
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> choices are MBR or nothing. When I manually installed grub legacy it |
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> failed because I had stupidly allowed CentOS to use ext4, and the |
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> build of Grub I had laying around didn't grok ext4. |
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> So I re-do the whole net install again using ext3 instead. |
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> Now, after manually installing Grub legacy in the CentOS 7 partition, |
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> it boots up. |
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> |
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The main problem (imnho) is that you think CentOS cares about |
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configurability/multiple ways of doing things. They do not. They have |
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their packages and their way of doing things, following TUV so that the |
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distro is easily supportable. When installing, you just have to keep |
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clicking next like a robot. |
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> I'm more convinced than ever that Gentoo is the way to go for my |
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> "real" systems... |
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Definitely agree; any systems that I spend a substantial amount of time |
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using run Gentoo. Nothing else is equal. I mostly run it on my home |
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server because I want it to Just Work (tm) without any work on my part. |
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It also prevents me from playing around too much with USE and other |
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things, which is another bonus as I get more work done ;) |
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Alec |
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