CentOS ← Ryan's Random Ramblings

Using Kickstart

Mar

4

2009

I started working with kickstart files to install CentOS today. I used a combination of two KS files that were automatically created for me during previous installs. I liked the partitioning scheme from one and the rest of the options from another. One thing that took me a bit to figure out was how to ...

Changing UID/GID in CentOS

Jan

20

2009

CentOS/Red Hat/Fedora create users/groups beginning with 500 where all other distros (that I’m aware of) begin with 1000. Since I use the same account throughout all my servers and have shares mounted between them, it is much easier if my UID/GID matches between systems. I have found it rather easy to change on CentOS as ...

VirtualBox VRDP

Jan

5

2009

Finally got my VM’s running headless and have been able to connect from my laptop. To start the VM, issue this command: VBoxHeadless -startvm “CentOS01” Then from another PC, start rdesktop (RDP client) and connect to the host ip address. This will open the console session to the VM. The port can be changed by ...

Automount SAMBA shares

Jan

4

2009

I set up a SAMBA share on my CentOS server so that I could easily transfer files back and forth to other computers. I set up an auto mount on my laptop so that it would only attempt to mount the share when I need it. Took a few tries to get the syntax correct, ...

CentOS X11vnc

Jan

4

2009

I found this page while looking for VNC options on my new CentOS server and decided to give x11vnc a try. I have already had several occasions while I was sitting on my couch that I wished I could log into the X session that I already had running on the monitor in the other ...

Two VirtualBox problems on CentOS

Jan

4

2009

After installing VirtualBox on my new CentOS server and using clonedvi to copy my VM’s over to the server I found a couple things not working correctly. The first thing I noticed was that I could not connect any of my USB devices to the VM’s. The USB devices showed up in the menu, but ...

CentOS Sound problem

Jan

4

2009

Once I got CentOS up and running it was time to look at the smaller things that didn’t work out of the box, like sound. I looked at a lot of websites and troubleshot for a long time before finally figuring out that I just needed to install a more recent version of ALSA for ...

Making a VM server

Jan

2

2009

I have almost finished building the system I am going to use as a MythTV Frontend, but in the meantime I have decided to put the system together and make a VM server to learn RedHat related things a little better. First thing I did was try to install CentOS from a DVD I had ...