easy install - centos 6.5 / vmware 9.04

Install – CentOS 6.5 on VMWare 9.04blog.g4me.co.uk

Select Typical Install

Select ISO Image

If easy install is not available then you do nothave the correct version ofVMware or the correct CentOS image.

You will need to followthe manual install guide.

Enter User Settings

Be wary of entering weakpasswords.

Choose Server Name / Location

Select an appropriate disk size

Click finish to complete the wizard

Ensure the power on machinecheckbox is un-checked.

Easy InstallEasy Install installs theOS for you and will then shut down the server.

Customise Hardware

If you change the memorynote that you may have to reallocate the swap partition.

We will be updating the packages on our new installso ensure that networking is either NAT or Bridged.

Use the user name andpassword entered previously.

Open a terminal window

Determine IP Address

Connect to the new server using SSH/Putty

Easy install should haveInstalled ssh for you.

If you can’t complete this step then run:

$ su# yum -y install openssh-server# chkconfig sshd on# service sshd start

Run the ‘su’ command then ‘yum update’The password forsu is the passwordentered previously

Download Package Updates

Re-boot

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