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About CentOS ( Community Enterprise O/S )

The CentOS Project
The CentOS Project is the name of the Organization that produces CentOS. They are not a part of any other organization.

Step - 1

The installation procedure is typical RedHat, simple and straightforward. Boot your computer from the CentOS 5 CD 1 or DVD and press Enter on the CentOS 5 boot up screen. This will install CentOS 5 in graphical mode.

Step - 2

Choose Skip in the CD Found window. This will skip the CD media test. If you click on the OK, You will have the option to check the media for defects and errors before installing. Not a bad idea, in general.

Step - 3

After a short time, the installation will begin. Click Next to go forward.

Step - 4

Choose a language and click Next.

Step - 5

Choose a keyboard Layout for the system and click Next.

Step - 6

This Step you must do carefully. Click Next and answer Yes on the Warning window.

Minimum Partitions for installing Linux

Swap Partition - to improve performance of the O/S (Virtual Memory)
Root Partition (/) - to keep the boot files and Linux kernel, to install the O/S, to install application software, to keep personal data.

Creating Minimum Partitions
»» Creating a SWAP partition
- No Mount Point

New → Select SWAP as a file system → Select partition Size

If your RAM in the PC less than 2GB, give the SWAP 2 times of your RAM capacity (Ex: 512MB RAM → 512 × 2 = 1GB)

Since we are only going to create minimum partitions. We can give the rest of the Hard Disk Drive space to the root partition.

»» Create Root partition
- / (root) mount point

New → select / (root) as a mount point → select ext3 as file system type → select partition size