CentOS

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CentOS 5.8 , 6.2 http://www.centos.org/

Information

ERPXE Module

• Name: - CentOS

• Version: 5.8 , 6.2

• 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	No	No

Plugin Requirments

Plugin Requirments

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

Screen Shots

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 centos5-6-XXX.tar.gz to /

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

extract centos5-6-XXX.tar.gz file:

tar -xvzf centos5-6-XXX.tar.gz

Download CentOS 5.7 , 6.2 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-ARCH-bin-DVD.iso /mnt/cdrom/

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

cp /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/vmlinuz /tftpboot/er/plugins/centos/5/i386/vmlinuz
cp /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/initrd.img /tftpboot/er/plugins/centos/5/i386/initrd.img
rsync -avHPS /mnt/cdrom/ /tftpboot/er/shares/centos/5/i386/

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

cp /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/vmlinuz /tftpboot/er/plugins/centos/5/x86_64/vmlinuz
cp /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/initrd.img /tftpboot/er/plugins/centos/5/x86_64/initrd.img
rsync -avHPS /mnt/cdrom/ /tftpboot/er/shares/centos/5/x86_64/

CentOS 6.2 x86: Copy initrd.img , vmlinuz and the entire ISO to appropriate directory: (LOWER CASE ONLY!)

cp /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/vmlinuz /tftpboot/er/plugins/centos/6/i386/vmlinuz
cp /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/initrd.img /tftpboot/er/plugins/centos/6/i386/initrd.img
rsync -avHPS /mnt/cdrom/ /tftpboot/er/shares/centos/6/i386/

CentOS 6.2 x64: Copy initrd.img , vmlinuz and the entire ISO to appropriate directory: (LOWER CASE ONLY!)

cp /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/vmlinuz /tftpboot/er/plugins/centos/6/x86_64/vmlinuz
cp /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/initrd.img /tftpboot/er/plugins/centos/6/x86_64/initrd.img
rsync -avHPS /mnt/cdrom/ /tftpboot/er/shares/centos/6/x86_64/

Verify files with filelist.txt in each folder.

All Done!