Re: [Vserver] 64bit centos templates?

On Wednesday 27 September 2006 11:06, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:02:31AM -0400, Chuck wrote:
> > On Wednesday 27 September 2006 07:33, ehab heikal wrote:
> >
> > this is an opteron system so i would really like to find an image to
> > work best on it.
>
> what keeps you from installing it from network?
>

there is nothing within the running basic centos 64 guest that i picked up
that is capable of going out and getting packages and maintaining them.. i
was hoping to find a ready to roll basic template to save time as well.. i
could i suppose locate the rpms for yum and download them on the host into
the centos64 directory structure then go in and run the install... just
seems to me when someone says a default basic system is a ready template it
would include an editor and updater like yum or update... maybe i ask too
much :) it had little else other than that needed to start the os which is ok
as long as there was an updater of some kind...

> is there no 64bit centos repository available?

i have only found one template available in x86_64 which i think is redhat's
version of amd64. all others offered around are 32bit. i exhausted 4 google
pages looking :)

guess ill have to have a look at the centos website and see if they have pkg
downloads available that i can get to to get the updater pkg so i can get
things directly.

although they plan to support gentoo, this package we need to run doesn't
support it at present... and i dont have the time to wait 3 months or so for
their projected release date. i need to get this server in production with
all sites moved over from a failing discreet host in another 10 days or so to
allow debugging time. (15 day deadline from today).

>
> best,
> Herbert
>
> > > About the 64 bit issue and performance. When running on AMD always go
> > > for 64bit if you can. When running on Intel, older 64bit implementations
> > > are sometimes slower in 64bit than in 32bit. That also holds to newer
> > > intel processors including core 2 duo but to a lesser extent where in
> > > some benchmarkes it was faster and in some it was slower. MySQL on 64bit
> > > AMD is great.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: vserver-bounces@list.linux-vserver.org
> > > [mailto:vserver-bounces@list.linux-vserver.org] On Behalf Of Chuck
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 12:53 PM
> > > To: vserver@list.linux-vserver.org
> > > Subject: [Vserver] 64bit centos templates?
> > >
> > >
> > > so far i found only one centos4 64bit vserver image that was
> > > labelled 'default'. it turned out to not even have a text editor other
> > > than
> > > ed and no way to bring packages into it. no yum or update.
> > >
> > > does anyone know of a decent image available? ultra-basic is fine as
> > > long as
> > > it has nano/pico and yum already installed.
> > >
> > > the 32bit runs fine, but i would prefer 64bit guests (at least i *think*
> > > i
> > > would). i have a good full featured gentoo one, but a package we need to
> > > run
> > > for some things requires a redhat-style os. we would have to re-license
> > > it to
> > > use other than centos.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Chuck
> > >
> > >
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> >
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> > or insecure system troubles and slowness or pay through the nose
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-- 
Chuck
"...and the hordes of M$*ft users descended upon me in their anger,
and asked 'Why do you not get the viruses or the BlueScreensOfDeath
or insecure system troubles and slowness or pay through the nose 
for an OS as *we* do?!!', and I answered...'I use Linux'. "
The Book of John, chapter 1, page 1, and end of book
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