Country and language selection STEP 4 Setup the right time and time zone of your server, this step is important, the clock of the server is really important for your software to work properly! DNS server, if you have more than one separate them with comas. Click Save. STEP 13 Choose your software to install. Check all the local disks you want to use in your server if more than one. Select protocol, enter url on the box and then configure proxy if the system acccessing internet through proxy server.
Wait for some, it will download package metadata. Once it is download, you will see the url in the Installation source. This is used to select the packages that you want to install, here i chose to install Minimal Server. Once you have selected, click on DONE. Wait for some, installer will check the dependencies for the selected packages. Now configure the CentOS 6.
After providing the URL and clicking OK , wait for the installer to retrieve the ISO image this may take sometime, but it should be fast with a good internet connection. Click on Next to proceed. Next, choose the type storage devices basic or specialized to be used for the installation and click Next. Next, select the option to clear data on the storage disk by selecting Yes , discard any data and click Next. Set the Timezone for your location and click Next to proceed.
Set the root user password and click Next to continue. Now you need to specify the type of installation you want. Read the descriptions of the options carefully and select the appropriate one. If you want to use the whole disk space, choose Use All Space , but to perform a custom installation, choose Create Custom Layout. The installer will review and modify partition layout. If everything is ok, clik Next. Next, apply the disk partitioning scheme created by selecting Write changes to disk and then click Next to proceed.
In this step, you need to choose the default set of software to be installed on your system. For the purpose of this guide, we will use Minimal and click Next. Thereafter, the installation process will be started. At this point, the actual installation of the system copying of files to disk will now start. You can alternatively copy the kernel images from the minimal install CD. I make you select something just in case the normal boot loader gets fried and you network boot by accident.
By providing a menu, you can abort the network install before it formats your hard drives. There are separate menu items for bit and bit systems because there are separate distributions, kernels and initial ram disks. Note that you can make the process fully automated so that you don't even have to press a key before booting.
However, the configuration requires you know things about the blank server that you can only find out by turning the machine on anyway, so I judge this a waste of time to configure.
Configuring Your Network Install The final step in the process before we can actually get to installing our first blank server is to create a Kickstart file. Kickstart files provide the information necessary to install the system - any time you answer a question on the standard install, there is a kickstart equivalent command. Firstly, let's configure an area on our web server for serving the kickstart files to our clients.
Optionally, you should consider the following: Disk partitioning. This may not be appropriate for your situation. SELinux and Firewalls.
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