CentOS

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CentOS 6.00 http://www.centos.org/

Information

ERPXE Module

• Name: - CentOS

• Version: 6.00

• Official website: http://www.centos.org/

• License: GNU General Public License

• Wikpedia Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centos

• Download: http://www.erpxe.com/downloads

• Supported from ERPXE 1.0

Plugin type

Plugin type

CentOS	Anti-Virus	Deployment	Diagnostics	OS Installation	Live Media	Recovery Tools
	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No

Plugin Requirments

Plugin Requirments

CentOS	CIFS	HTTP	Internet	NFS	Linux OS	Windows OS
	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes

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Special Information

CentOS is a free operating system distribution based upon the Linux kernel. It is derived entirely from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution.

CentOS exists to provide a free enterprise class computing platform and strives to maintain 100% binary compatibility with its upstream source, Red Hat.

CentOS stands for Community ENTerprise Operating System.

CentOS is the most popular Linux distribution for web servers with almost 30% of all Linux web servers using it.

Linux Installation Instructions

Download centosXX-XXX.tar.gz to /

https://sourceforge.net/projects/erpxe/files/plugins/

extract centosXX-XXX.tar.gz file:

tar -xvzf centosXX-XXX.tar.gz

Download CentOS 5.7 , 6.0 ISO Latest Version to /mnt/ :

http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=30

Mount ISO file to temporary location (/mnt/cdrom/)

mkdir /mnt/cdrom/
mount -o loop /mnt/CentOS-X.X-bin-DVD /mnt/cdrom/

CentOS 5.7 x86: Copy initrd.img , vmlinuz to appropriate directory: (LOWER CASE ONLY!)

cp isolinux/vmlinuz /tftpboot/er/plugins/centos/5/vmlinuz
cp isolinux/initrd.img /tftpboot/er/plugins/centos/5/initrd.img
cp -R /* /tftpboot/er/shares/centos/5/i386/

CentOS 5.7 x64: Copy initrd.img , vmlinuz to appropriate directory: (LOWER CASE ONLY!)

cp isolinux/vmlinuz /tftpboot/er/plugins/centos/5/vmlinuz64
cp isolinux/initrd.img /tftpboot/er/plugins/centos/5/initrd64.img
cp -R /* /tftpboot/er/shares/centos/5/x86_64/

CentOS 6.0 x86: Copy initrd.img , vmlinuz to appropriate directory: (LOWER CASE ONLY!)

cp isolinux/vmlinuz /tftpboot/er/plugins/centos/6/vmlinuz
cp isolinux/initrd.img /tftpboot/er/plugins/centos/6/initrd.img
cp -R /* /tftpboot/er/shares/centos/6/i386/

CentOS 6.0 x64: Copy initrd.img , vmlinuz to appropriate directory: (LOWER CASE ONLY!)

cp isolinux/vmlinuz /tftpboot/er/plugins/centos/6/vmlinuz64
cp isolinux/initrd.img /tftpboot/er/plugins/centos/6/initrd64.img
cp -R /* /tftpboot/er/shares/centos/6/x86_64/

Verify files with filelist.txt in each folder.

All Done!