FMS and CentOS (hey it rhymes!)

There is another post on this but it only shows up in searches. To repeat my answer for you; you need to do 2 things to get FMS2 onto CentOS:

1. Install the "common-libstdc" package from disc 1 of your CentOS installation disc. Use "rpm -i common-libstdc*.rpm" to get that on there.

2. Because starting ./installFMS with the -platformWarnOnly option still doesn't work you will need to open the "installFMS" file in a text editor and change the lines that stop it from running. So comment out calls to functions that begin with "exit_" like "exit_os" or "exit_wrong_platform".

3. change either line 122 or 123 (depends on if you use CentOS 3 or 4) so that the string passed to the "cd_check" function matches the string in your "/etc/redhat-release" file. e.g.

cd_check "CentOS release 4.4 (Final)" /etc/redhat-release redhat-RHEL4-i686

Do that and you'll be up and running in 5 mins flat.