CentOS (Community Enterprise Operating System) 2, 3, 4 and 5 are built from publicly available open source SRPMS provided by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policies and aims to be 100% binary compatible. (CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork).
CentOS is free! The "Prominent North american Enterprise Linux Vendor" and "Upstream Vendor" is
Red Hat. In the last three years using CentOS I don't have any compatibility problem! To learn more about CentOS please visit
http://www.centos.orgInstallation environment
Linux Box is virtual machine created using VMware Workstation 6.0.
Guest OS | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 |
Memory | 1024 MB |
Hard Disk | 60 GB, Hard disk contents are stored in one or more files up to 2 GB each |
CD-ROM | Auto detect, use physical drive |
Ethernet | Bridged: Connected directly to the physical network. |
USB-Controler | Present |
Sound Adapter | Auto detect |
Display | Auto detect |
Processors | 1 |
To learn more about VMware Workstation please visit
http://www.vmware.com.Download CentOS 5
The downloads sites of CentOS ISO images You can find here:
http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/i386/My DVD ISO Image I downloaded from here:
http://centos.serveroffice.at/5.0/isos/i386/CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-DVD.isoCentOS Installation
The installation uses mostly the default values. I made following changes:
Hard Drive Partitioning | Create Custom Layout. Swap Space 2 GB and one 58 GB root partition "/" |
Network device | Configured manualy with static IP Address. Disabled "Use of DHCP" Disabled "Enable IPv6 support" IPv4 Address: 192.168.0.95 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Hostname: vl095.fla.net Gateway: 192.168.0.1 Primary DNS: 192.168.0.1 |
Region | Europe/Vienna. select "System clock uses UTC" |
Software Select | Leave default: Only Desktop Gnome selected and Radio Button "Customize later" activated |
Firewall | Disabled |
SELinux | Permissive
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Here is the Diashow of my CentOS installation: