Installing Cent OS as server

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Last night I got Lamp running under Ubuntu server all OK.

I now want to try with a more industry standard distro, I was recommended CentOS.

However, I can't work out which ISOs I need to download:

http://mirror.umoss.org/centos/5.5/isos/x86_64/

The live CD is just a demo cd, then there are 8 other ISOs. In order for me to install the basic CentOS server, do I need to download all 8 ISOs?

Thanks in advance.

/linux nub
 
geuben said:
Get the dvd via a torrent program.

Otherwise you will have to change CDs about 6 times.
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OK, cheers. Thought it might be a case that only ISO 1 was needed and the rest were packages or something.

Downloading the DVD.

Thanks.
 
you dont need all the CDs for centos. The best is to grab just the netinstall, choose a mirror and then you only download the rpms that you need and they will allready be up to date. Awesome :-)

And yes using vi is the best. if you don't know how, theres excellent tutorials including just typing `vimtutor` on most linux terminals ;-)
 
you would use vi followed by the file you need to edit.

webmin is ok I suppose, never really used it much just seems like to much hassel when I can just edit a file.

once you've used the command line and edited files with vi it becomes second nature. just always copy a file before editing it and you cant go wrong. (cp filename filname.bak)
 
Izi said:
this starring at a black screen, I'm not used to.

came across webmin which seems quite handy too.
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It's not the most natural way of working with things to start with, but once you get used to working on the terminal you'd probably find it difficult to go back to GUI admin panels.
 
hmm. I downloaded the DVD and started up vm player, however I wasn't given the option of what I wanted to install and therefore it installed the complete desktop.

How do I just get the bare basics without the GUI? Or is this just part and parcel of CentOS?
 
Sounds like you just did a default install which will leave you with a GUI. You should be able to customise what is installed on one of the screens during the install, (you definitely can on RHEL, which CentOS is based on, but it's been a couple of months since I've done a CentOS install and I can't remember ... although a quick Google search turns up the first few screenshots here. You don't want to do what they are doing but unsellecting the desktops and selecting customise now would probably be a good starting point for getting what you want.)
 
By default that will probably install the same as off the normal DVD unless the OP chooses what to install in the same way as he can using the normal DVD ... just the netinstall disk will pull down the files from online instead of off local media.

Of course if the OP doesn't care what is installed and just wants to limit what is running then he could just change the default run level from 5 to 3 which will stop the GUI from running.
 
You have to select somewhere in the install that you don't want the default packages. It's been a long time since i've done a centos install without PXE + kickstart so i'm not too sure where it is.

Still no worries, just use yum remove and the package group name, you'll be back to barebone in no time!
 
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