To specify an installation source for Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat or Scientific Linux, use the linux repo= option at the boot prompt: For example: linux repo=cdrom:device linux repo=ftp://username:password@URL linux repo=http://URL linux repo=hd:device linux repo=nfs:options:server:/path linux repo=nfsiso:options:server:/path In these examples, cdrom refers to a CD or DVD drive, ftp refers to a location accessible by FTP, http refers to a URL accessible by HTTP, hd refers to an ISO image file accessible on a hard drive partition, nfs refers to an expanded tree of installation files accessible by NFS, and nfsiso refers to an ISO image file accessible by NFS. See
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Ever get an error message like the following when you use yum to install an RPM package or a group of RPM packages, and then, within a minute or two, attempt to use yum to install another RPM package? # yum groupinstall “Development Tools” Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 1651. Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit… The other application is: PackageKit Memory : 114 M RSS (506 MB VSZ) Started: Wed Oct 26 15:11:42 2011 – 00:10 ago State : Running, pid: 1651 Another Microsoft was the fifth-largest corporate contributor to the 3.0 Linux kernel as measured by the number of changes to its previous release. Only Red Hat, Intel, Novell, and IBM had more contributions. Microsoft was fifteenth as measured by number of lines changed. The work done by Microsoft was to enable the Microsoft Hyper-V driver to be included in the mainline Linux kernel. Microsoft originally submitted the necessary code changes back in July 2009, but there were a lot of problems with the code, and the Linux kernel developers insisted that the code be fixed before being accepted into the mainline Preserve me from long-winded presentations! Why do many technical presenters feel the need to drone on endlessly about their fill-in-the-blank project without really getting much across to their audience, many of whom are falling asleep or wondering why they are there by the end of the presentation. I recently listened to an Intel/Red Hat This post shows you how use lspci to determine the vendor and product IDs of a device and use these IDs to locate a suitable driver driver in the ElRepo Enterprise Linux Repository. |
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