For a project i needed temporarily an CentOS server. I decided to install it on the former SUN virtual box, nowerday’s owned by Oracle.

Before i stared i also downloaded a netinstall.iso from one of the CentOS mirrors. Just a small ISO to get quickly started with CentOS.

After downloading the virtual box i started with creating a virtual machine. I connected the ISO to the CD-ROM drive of the virtual machine. When booting the virtual machine the installation started. By just supplying the folowing information:

1. select linux text mode
2. select language (English)
3. enable ipv4, i disabled ipv6
4. select http setup
5. Supply the mirror information ( ‘ftp.tudelft.nl’ ; ‘centos.org/5.4/os/i386/’ )
6. erase hdd structure create linux default
7. enable eth0 ipv4
8. tcp/ip configuration DHCP
9. hostname ‘mycentos’
10. Enter root’s password
11. Select the package installation (‘server’)
12. DONE!!

In no time you are up and running with a CentOS server.

Remember this is a bare installation the CentOS. You need to install now the needed program’s

Have fun with CentOS!!

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