Centos 6 on 1.99e kidéchire

dexterx

Is it possible to install Centos 6 / 6.5 on online.net 1.99 euro servers?
Any advice is appreciated.

webcraft

Sure, you can install it but performance depends on what you run on it.

Sady

There would might be a way to create template something similar like joodle's windows templates but not sure, give it a try : joodle.nl

sc754

Yes, make a centos 6 kvm in virtualbox / proxmox and then use joodles guide to install it. Otherwise if it's an option in the installation section then do it that way.

lewissue

umm, joodle should create a img with ghost and let us put own gho file

dexterx

I well run centminmod with 3 wordpress blogs. Not high traffic.

There is no option in the control panel for 6 or 6.5. Only Centos 7

So if I understand correctly I have to install Proxmox and create a vz container with the same specs as the dedicated server 160gb/2gb. and then export it and then import into recovery mode

@sc754: I saw centos2.gz posted by you some time ago. Do you happen to have that file?

dexterx

Can be centos 7 downgraded to 6.5?

rm_

Can't you all just go and use Debian.

What is wrong with CentOS 7, than you need 6 so much?

rds100

rm_ said: What is wrong with CentOS 7

systemd?

youyu

joodle.nl Windows produced series are good. In making a centos6 enough.

dexterx

@rm_ : Centos 7 is not stable enough and does not have all the repos nedded. I already tried to install but failure after failure.

Now I am trying to install proxmox...

comXyz

Move to debian, and problem solved.

mustafaramadhan

Online.net don't want 'Dedibox Kidéchire' as web server. Just for desktop and or backup server purpose. That why no option for CentOS 6. Right?.

hotsnow

@mustafaramadhan said:
Online.net don't want 'Dedibox Kidéchire' as web server. Just for desktop and or backup server purpose. That why no option for CentOS 6. Right?.

Debian is not server?

webcraft

@mustafaramadhan said:
Online.net don't want 'Dedibox Kidéchire' as web server. Just for desktop and or backup server purpose. That why no option for CentOS 6. Right?.

Seems so.

dexterx

I just got my way through centminmod and runs perfectly on centos 6.5 and I really like it. Its perfect for me.

It takes some time to get used to another operating system. t just like somebody would say to a debian user to just use centos.

rds100

I don't know why you keep mentioning centos 6.5, but it's an old version. centos 6.6 is the current centos 6 version.

sc754

There you go:

http://dl.fs5.co.uk/Centos6.6.gz

Default root password is Password561

Enjoy

dexterx

6.6 its perfect for me also.

So do I have to create a KVM or VZ in proxmox?

What configuration I have to user when creating the container?

dexterx

@sc754 : Thank you very much for your help

mustafaramadhan

In fact, online.net only have 6.5 dan 7.0 for CentOS OS. Upgrade from 6.5 to 6.6 enough with 'yum clean all; yum update'.

comXyz

@dexterx

When you love a girl, in your eyes she is perfect.

Not you're in love with CentOS. But I'm in love with Debian :P

ittiger

I use both, Centos & Debian but prefer Debian. Have installed Debian 7 & Virtualmin on my kidéchire server. Wordpress works fine. I've set up a test at http://onefor.me.uk that is also IPV6 ready. Really pleased with my little dedi server

vRozenSch00n

Debian is also a powerful Linux distro you can play around with http://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap to upgrade and downgrade.

I haven't found a Centos distro that can do that.

Heh heh heh I learned it from @RyanArp & @Jar

aFriend

Its confusing why the previous 1.99e kidéchire from few weeks ago had the option of CentOS 6.x but the 1.99e kidéchire from 2 days ago do not have that option. Its the same box and I dont know why they dont add option of centos 6.x on these boxes too.

I am going to contact support from my panel. maybe if they hear from multiple folks, they might review - maybe this was an oversight.

dexterx

Unfortunately I can't make it work . I tried several times.

Could you tell me if I am doing something wrong?

1. I boot into Rescue mode from the online.net control panel (Ubuntu 14.04 amd64)

2. Login to to ssh with the details provided on the Rescue page

3. issue the commands:

sudo su

wget -O- 'http://dl.fs5.co.uk/Centos6.6.gz' | gunzip | dd of=/dev/sda

4. When it finishes from the online.net control panel I reboot in normal mode.



Also tried rebooting the server from control panel

Unfortunately no ssh and no ping to server

Any adea what I am doing wrong?

socials

• Install Centos 6 in VirtualBox
• After installing, get the disk image
• Upload it to a spare VPS and mount it as a loop device
• Boot your destination server (in this case, your Online.net server) to rescue mode (or gparted/something similar)
• Create partitions, filesystems on the hard disk
• Mount the root partition
• rsync everything from the loop device mounted on the spare VPS to your Online.net server's previously created root partition
• Edit fstab, add the correct UUID of the previously generated root partition
• Edit grub configuration, add the correct UUID
• Remove 70-persistent-net.rules so network interfaces get autodiscovered
• Edit ifcfg-eth0, add correct networking information
• Reinstall grub
• Exit rescue mode, boot to the hard drive
• Regenerate ssh keys
• Enjoy

Works great. I've used these steps to get Centos 6 on KVM VPSs with 128/256MB RAM, since anaconda (installer) doesn't run if there's less than 378MB RAM of available.

dexterx

@sc754 I would like to thank you one more time. It is working perfectly.

TarZZ92

socials said: Edit ifcfg-eth0, add correct networking information

which would be DHCP..

SpeedBus

I wonder if something like this would work:

http://www.houseoflinux.com/component/sectionex/68-installation/87-how-to-remote-install-centos-6-via-vnc

http://www.centosx.com/install-centos-remotely-through-vnc/

agonyzt

@SpeedBus Yes it does. Kickstart too!