Installing CentOS BlueQuartz

Boot from CentOS CD #1 or DVD



Realy quickly here are the options to pick:


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Install CentOS 4.0


Server


Manually Partition with Disk Druid




/Create these partitions:


/boot ext3 100M


/ ext3 4096M


swap 2048M


/var ext3 4096M


/home ext3 (the rest of all)




Grub defaults



Manually set an IP address



No firewall and Disable SELinux



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time zone



Set root password


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On Select Packages page:


Uncheck: 

Text-based Internet

Windows File Server

Administration Tools

Printing Support


Check:

Click details on Web Server and check all MySQL options(or PostgreSQL)

Check MySQL Database


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Let machine install and reboot



Login and disable the following services like this:



chkconfig pcmcia off

chkconfig isdn off

chkconfig rpcgssd off

chkconfig rpcidmapd off

chkconfig rpcsvcgssd off 

chkconfig cpuspeed off

chkconfig netfs off

chkconfig iptables off

chkconfig cups off




Start httpd /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start and verify it's working




rpm -import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4


yum -y update


yum -y install bind bind-chroot telnet-server expect net-snmp net-snmp-utils ntp php-mbstring perl-XML-Parser gd dovecot



We need to verify that quotas are turned on for /home.  Edit /etc/fstab and make sure the line for /home looks like this:


LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 2


Then run the following commands:

 

mount -o remount /home

/sbin/quotacheck -c -u -g -a

/sbin/quotaon -aug


wget ftp://bluequartz.org/pub/BlueQuartz/5100R/CentOS4/tgz/BlueQuartz-5100R-CentOS4-i386-2006011501.tar.gz



tar zxvf BlueQuartz-5100R-CentOS4-2006011501.tar.gz


cd BlueQuartz-5100R-CentOS4-2006011501


./install.sh



yum -y update


reboot




http://your.ip.address/login and go through setup.