Hello, I'm new to the linux world (long time FreeBSD user), and I'm wondering if there's an easy way to install CentOS 5 without the GUI and unnecessary services? I see there's a server cd for CentOS 4, but I didnt see anything like that for CentOS 5. Am I looking in the wrong places, or is it just necessary to manually select the minimal set of packages? Thanks, Aaron Seelye
> unnecessary services? I see there's a server cd for CentOS 4, but I > didnt see anything like that for CentOS 5. Am I looking in the wrong > places, or is it just necessary to manually select the minimal set of > packages?First reaction is that until a server iso is available, you might want to try the text based install. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Sr. Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, purge the message from your system and notify the sender immediately. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited.
Aaron Seelye wrote:> Hello, > > I'm new to the linux world (long time FreeBSD user), and I'm wondering > if there's an easy way to install CentOS 5 without the GUI and > unnecessary services? I see there's a server cd for CentOS 4, but I > didnt see anything like that for CentOS 5. Am I looking in the wrong > places, or is it just necessary to manually select the minimal set of > packages?Firstly, I want to clear up this misconception that people have that the ServerCD is a minimal install. Well, its not. Its a typical Server install, which is - trust me - very far from being a minimal install. Secondly, the best way to do a minimal install is to just get the netinstall iso from the 5.1/isos/ directory, run a normal graphical install, and deselect all options from the 'Tasks to install' screen, select customise now option, then deselect everything from the next screen as well. It should give you a minimal install, with just enough packages to have a booting system, network and a functional sshd server. Once installed, you can then carry on adding packages with yum. Finally, I believe this is FAQ number 1, check wiki.centos.org's FAQ section for CentOS-5 -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq
Aaron Seelye wrote:> > I'm new to the linux world (long time FreeBSD user), and I'm wondering > if there's an easy way to install CentOS 5 without the GUI and > unnecessary services? I see there's a server cd for CentOS 4, but I > didnt see anything like that for CentOS 5. Am I looking in the wrong > places, or is it just necessary to manually select the minimal set of > packages?It depends on your definition of "minimal". The method I use sometime is: - boot the install CD or DVD with the "linux text" parameter - unselect all package groups when you get to that point - select the "customize package selection" checkbox (or something like that, I forgot what it's called exactly) - in the new, extended package groups list, unselect everything again The result is a fairly slim machine. Probably not the absolute minimum, but then there's no unique definition of "absolute minimum". You can always add anything you want after that via "yum install package_name", so you don't lose anything this way. BTW, with this method, you only need the first install CD. If it asks for another CD, you're doing something wrong. There might be some services that you may want to turn off, just do a "chkconfig --list | grep :on | less" and look through the list - anything you don't want, just do a "chkconfig service_name off" in a different console. Fairly easy, fairly newbie-friendly, works OK. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/