I would like to upgrade but I do not want to reconfigure al the services I need.

Count me among those awaiting Centos 6.

+1 for C6

get me on the list too

me too!!!

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We need Google+ +1 buttons in this forum.

I'm in for +1 on a node! More if it performs better than Squeeze.

Another vote for CentOS 6 availability ASAP please.

Please Linode I want Centos 6. It would make me very happy.

CentOS6 means I'm no longer building packages for my boxes...

1) MySQL enabled Postfix (instead of just LDAP)!
2) Sieve plugin for Dovecot!

I'd be a pretty happy guy if this appeared...

Another vote for Centos 6 here

Have you done it through the recovery console yet? If so please send directions my way

There isn't that much to it.

I created two partitions, one for /boot, and one for /. From here, I booted into finnix and dropped the kernel and initrd into /boot/install (just a directory I made, nothing fancy -- I just didn't want any conflicts). A simple reboot into pv_grub, and type three lines:

root (hd0)
kernel /install/vmlinuz
initrd /install/initrd.img

... and it will kick off the installer. I'll give you a warning though: it isn't going to be pretty over lish.

If you have the RAM, you can pull off a GUI install over VNC, and specify a password on the kernel boot line. See this for all of the options: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options

PS: Pull the vmlinuz and the initrd.img file from almost any mirror... such as this one: http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/6.0/os ... /isolinux/

edit: so there are issues with the lish console and the installer, namely the disk selection part. So, I wrote a kickstart file. This will install almost nothing -- a grand total of 208 packages -- and if you know what you're doing with respect to partitioning and etc, you can probably have a C6 install up and running in 10 minutes.

You'll probably have to play with the partition options unless you have yours setup identically like mine (xvda = /boot, xvdb = /, xvdc = swap). Note that this will blow away all existing partitions as well, so if you botch it then you get to re-download the kernel and initrd.

install
url --url=http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/6.0/os/x86_64/
text
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp
rootpw  --plaintext **REPLACEME**
firewall --service=ssh
authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512 --enablefingerprint
selinux --enforcing
timezone --utc Etc/UTC
firstboot --disabled
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=xvda,xvdb --append="crashkernel=auto rhgb quiet"
clearpart --all
part /boot --ondisk=xvda --size=1 --grow --fstype=ext2
part / --ondisk=xvdb --size=1 --grow --fstype=ext4
part swap --ondisk=xvdc --size=1 --grow --fstype=swap
%packages --nobase
vim-enhanced
openssh-clients
@core
%end

WORKED LIKE A CHARM.

Thanks man, I'm a newbie when it comes to some of this, but I was able to get it installed using the method you mentioned.

I was overly enthusiastic. The install proceeded fine, I even ran it through VNC and a graphical install, but when the system rebooted Linode gave me an error saying it could not start for some reason. I made a CentOS profile with a paravirt kernel to boot it under with /dev/hda being boot (where the graphical installer installed the bootloader) and /hdb being the root partition. /hdc is the swap partition (I think). Any ideas? lish won't even give me an error.