CentOS install

[Matt Lawrence]

Ben Scott wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Matt Lawrence <matt.lawrence at tamu.edu> wrote:
>   
>> Do a minimal install and you only need the first CD.
>>     
>
>   Last I tried a minimal install of CentOS from CD (which was a few
> respins ago, admittedly), I had to shuffle discs 1 and 2 back and
> forth a couple times.  Since I regarded that as a bug in the
> installer, I guess it makes sense that it has been fixed.  :)
>   

That's how RHEL installs have worked for quite a while, even a minimal 
install requires shuffling CDs back and forth.  The CentOS folks have 
done a good job of making it practical to install from a single CD.  It 
does require stripping the initial package list down the the bare 
minimum and then installing everything else via yum.  For me, this 
includes allowing sendmail to be installed and replacing it with postfix 
afterwards.

The best answer is to do a network install.  It takes a little bit of 
effort to get the initial setup put together, but from then on, life is 
much easier.  I even do PXEboot, tftp & http installs on systems at my 
house.

-- Matt