DirectAdmin for Enterprise 6.0

Ive made a sync with main rsync server for be a centos mirror and im waiting to be in centos officlal mirror list.

Actually ive made the sync and ive accesso to centos6 installation dvd.

When the mirror will be accepted from centos staff ill let you know the path for download.

If anyone interested pm me.

Regards
 
Some Russian mirrors have already published the centos6 ISO and I downloaded this.

The first thing I saw is absolutely unfunctional text mode installer -- it doesn't allow to create a custom partition layout or customize packages to install. It even doesn't allow to set a hostname! Maybe this is a pre-release joke or mistake, but looks like we all have to learn kickstart to put customizations to OS install.

Everything other looks very similar to ScientificLinux -- there are no dbus or hal running on minimal install, and CentOS name is printed red when init starts.
 
As i saw when you boot from cd the installation say "New installation or update from CentOS 5".

So yes, there is an update method...
 
At least setting it to CentOS 5 doesn't install. Complains about not having ldconfig and more.
 
When will everything be ready for centos 6 and what do i have to do to change my license ?
 
Hello,

I'm just starting to assemble/mount the boxes to install the images, so I'm hoping a beta version in roughly 1 to two weeks, if all goes well.

John
 
It's been in beta testing for about a week now.

There is an issue where yum becomes broken after the install completes, we're not yet sure why. Rpms can still be installed with "rpm", so it's not a show-stopper.

All services and DA appear to work fine.

Please report any issues to the centos 6 "beta testing" section of the forum if you plan on testing this release.

Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available.

Keep in mind, that this is a beta release. Support issues are lower priority than for non-beta releases, so if issues are found, fixes won't be as quick as for the stable releases.

John
 
Thanks for the update, hopefully yum will be fixed though before release! :)
 
DirectAdmin Support said:
There is an issue where yum becomes broken after the install completes, we're not yet sure why. Rpms can still be installed with "rpm", so it's not a show-stopper.
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For me it could still be a show-stopper. Using YUM is the easiest way to know when an update is available, and a one-step way to install. It also finds dependencies.

Whether or not it's a show stopper for any individual user depends, I suppose, on how many machines they need to manage.

Jeff
 
Did you overcome those problems? I'm actually waiting to deploy new servers to install CentOS 6 on them.
 
Hello,

Yes, the issue has been found and fix is here:
http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=385

We'll be incorporating the fix by default later on (after we decide what method to use, either installing curl-devel via rpm, or just run the above code after the source install), but yum should no longer be an issue with the simple 3 line fix after the install is done. (Thanks to SeLLeRoNe)

Beyond that, we've not had reports of other issues (so far), and it's been available for about 3 weeks now. The code-name for CentOS 6 is "SEGA" for anyone who wish to chose it. I'll be changing it "CentOS 6 - BETA" in a few days. If were to be installing a new box today, I would personally use CentOS 6 (although, I'm biased, since I know the ins-and-outs to fix it.. but still).

John
 
Still CentOS 6 is in 6.0 and has NO security updates. Do we want to relay on them? I think SL has much better organized build systems and some dedicated resource, since they deliver their updates timely.

PS.
Take no offence - I'm aware that their are volunteers, but the lack of security fixes in OS that has Enterprise in it is major failure.
 
CentOS 6.1 is coming soon. They are working hard on it: http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/dashboard

Also they have introduced something called CR repo wich will give security updates from next version (6.1, 6.2 etc) until CentOS actually release the new versions.

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4191391019.html
The CentOS community released its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.0 clone, promising continuous release updates to support RHEL 6.1 security features.
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Changes in RHEL 6.1, including touted virtualization performance optimizations, new hardware enablement, improved operational efficiency, and high availability improvements, will be available to CentOS 6.0 users via a Continuous Release repository. This will bring all 6.1 and post-6.1 security updates to all 6.0 users prior to a formal CentOS 6.1 release, says the community.
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I want to continue with CentOS, wich have never let me down, being a very stable releases and working great with DirectAdmin. I hope DA continues to use CentOS as default development environment.

By the way, if your on CentOS 5, it seems you have to enable the CR repo: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2011-August/017689.html

From Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/CentOS/status/109302627480780800
If you run CentOS-5, make sure you have the 'CR' repo installed and enabled
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Also they are just about ready to release CentOS 5.7 very soon:

From Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/CentOS/status/111400281400545280
CentOS-5.7 is now staging for release. ETA on public mirrors ~ 72 to 80 hrs
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