{"id":645,"date":"2009-12-08T22:52:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T22:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=645"},"modified":"2024-01-01T18:34:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T18:34:53","slug":"centos-4-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/centos-4-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Centos 4.7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I built a Sun Virtual Box VM based on Centos 4.7. <i>June 2009<\/i>. This item is now deprecated.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>1st Impressions<\/h3>\n<p>Its a long time since I used Red Hat. If you don&#8217;t want to cut CD&#8217;s use one of the single file .iso images. I used the DVD version.<\/p>\n<p>When I tried to install it on my XP SP\/3, the install process failed and rolled back. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/ticket\/3701\">trouble ticket, #3701<\/a> details how to fix the windows registry which was damaged at v2.2.0.<\/p>\n<p>The Centos install process installs an SMP and uniprocessor version into GRUB and grub is configured to start the SMP version as default. This thread, <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.virtualbox.org\/viewtopic.php?f=3&amp;t=14416\">entitled CentOS 4.7 guest won&#8217;t start<\/a>, suggests that one should configure <b>PAE\/NX=on<\/b> for the SMP image, which is not the default at V2.2.4. So I have set it and it works for me.<\/p>\n<p>The screen resizing doesn&#8217;t work well out of the box but there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.virtualbox.org\/viewtopic.php?f=3&amp;t=15679\">sticky thread<\/a> called &#8220;Howto: Install Linux Guest Additions + Xorg config&#8221; in the Virtual Box Linux Guests forum.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a sudo error. The default admin user is not authorised to use sudo. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100510143404\/http:\/\/kbase.redhat.com:80\/faq\/docs\/DOC-1528\">this<\/a> at the Red Hat knowledge base.) One needs to unhash a line in the sudoers file and add the admin user to the sudoers group using <i>visudo &amp; usermod<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Locate needs <i>updatedb<\/i> run, but <i>apropos<\/i> works and I can&#8217;t find catman, even using apropos.<\/p>\n<h3>Shared Folders<\/h3>\n<p>Works as expected, define the share name in the GUI, install<\/p>\n<pre># mount -t vboxsf sharename ${mountpoint}\r\n# ls ${mountpoint}<\/pre>\n<p>then add the line to \/etc\/fstab and test using mount -a<\/p>\n<pre># echo sharenamet ${mountpoint}t vboxsf &gt;&gt;\/etc\/fstab\r\n# mount -a<\/pre>\n<h3>Python 2.4<\/h3>\n<p>Looks like we need a parallel i.e. source code install and use the PATH statement to allow bzr and planet if necessary to utilise it. Certainly, bzr will not install against python 2.3. A shed load of the distro is written in 2.3. An upgrade would seem to be difficult and dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I built a Sun Virtual Box VM based on Centos 4.7. June 2009. This item is now deprecated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,8,3],"tags":[184,1184,912,916,911],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-i-t","category-linux","category-technology","tag-centos","tag-deprecated","tag-i-t","tag-linux","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/deprecated-dfl1955-cc0-w1080.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10075,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/10075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}