CentOS - Jul 2012 - Installing Centos-6 32 bit

Is a guide to installing Centos 6 32 bit that covers such 
things like:

Minimal Kickstart example file
Centos 6 multimedia repos

Plus any other things I need to be aware of when moving from 
5.8 to 6.2 (I know the latest version is 6.3 but I will 
let yum deal with that when I upgrade the installed 
packages.)

TIA

Keith Roberts

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Hello Keith,

On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 09:25 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote:
> Is a guide to installing Centos 6 32 bit that covers such 
> things like:
> 
> Minimal Kickstart example file
> Centos 6 multimedia repos
A lot of documentation can be found at http://docs.redhat.com, amongst
which is
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/index.html
.
> Plus any other things I need to be aware of when moving from 
> 5.8 to 6.2
I'd check the release notes and technical notes that can also be found
there.

Regeards,
Leonard.

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----- Original Message -----
| Is a guide to installing Centos 6 32 bit that covers such
| things like:
| 
| Minimal Kickstart example file
| Centos 6 multimedia repos
| 
| Plus any other things I need to be aware of when moving from
| 5.8 to 6.2 (I know the latest version is 6.3 but I will
| let yum deal with that when I upgrade the installed
| packages.)
| 
| TIA
| 
| Keith Roberts

If you run an interactive installation on a single machine, selecting the
components that you want installed, the partition layout and so forth, that
machine will generate a kickstart file for you to replicate other machines with
located in /root/anaconda-ks.cfg.  You can alter this file as you so choose and
use it to then install other machines by passing it the ks= options for
protocol, locations and whatnot.

Adding multimedia repos can be managed as part of the kickstarts post process to
add things like RPMFusion, EPEL, ATRPMS and any other third party repo that you
want.  Once the repositories are available you can then install components from
them.

As a side note, have a look at the documentation for kickstart and more
specifically the "repo" options.  You can include updates as part of
the OS installation ending up with a host that has all updates applied during
installation so that when it boots you have a fully patched system when rolled
out.


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