CentOS 5 (Final) has been released

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of 
> Michael St. Laurent
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 2:18 PM
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: RE: CentOS 5 (Final) has been released
> 
> > > I would recommend installing from the Dell hardware-specific 
> > > repository.
> > > 
> > > wget -O- -q 
> http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/bootstrap.cgi | bash 
> > > yum install dellhw-repository yum install srvadmin-all
> > > 
> > > Let the list know how it goes!
> > 
> > Okay, well I keep getting connection timed.  I try again and get 
> > another time out message at a different point.
> > 
> > Are the servers feeling under the weather today?  ;-)
> 
> As an experiment I burned a CD from the 5.2 ISO and tried to 
> run the install with the CentOS 5 distro.  The Dell installer 
> doesn't like the non-redhat CDs.  Is there any way to tell it 
> that those are EL5 disks?

>From what I can tell, most CentOS folks have the best luck using the
dell repository. If you use the CD, you have to either edit files on
your system to make it look like a RHEL5 system, or you have to edit the
scripts.

Problems accessing linux.dell.com should hopefully be sorted soon. I've
sent a note about some seemingly runaway mailman processes using most of
the CPU, and I think it will be fixed soon.
--
Michael