CentOS install

[Jason Ede]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at lists.us.dell.com [mailto:linux-
> poweredge-bounces at lists.us.dell.com] On Behalf Of Matt Lawrence
> Sent: 20 June 2009 20:44
> To: linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
> Subject: Re: CentOS install
> 
> 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.

I recently started using kickstart files and these really make installing centos so much easier (although tend to pull from a DVD) but works fine for net installs too :)

Jason


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