Operating System Installation: CentOS 5.8
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Documentation on this page is intended for customers of HeroEngine managing their own server(s).
Overview
This document guides the user in the installation of the Linux CentOS 5.8 distribution on a server in preparation to configure the machine to serve as either an Oracle Database or a HeroEngine Server.
Prerequisites
This document assumes a very low level of knowledge in setting up and configuring CentOS / Redhat 5 and the Oracle client.
When do you need to do this?
- You are setting up an Oracle Database Server
- You are setting up a new HeroEngine Server
Installation
Quick install instructions for advanced users
The latest version of CentOS is at : http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/i386/
We recommend downloading the DVD instead of the 6 CDs installation.
The following are minimum partition suggestions:
- /boot 100M Boot flag on
- / (root) 10Gig
- Swap partition -- 50-100% of the RAM installed.
Static IP needs to be set, and you can disable IPv6. You’ll need to know the following network information:
- Static IP for the host
- Fully Qualified Host Name
- Subnet mask
- Default Gateway
- Primary DNS Server
- Secondary DNS server
Package Selection:
- Desktop – Gnome unchecked
- Server GUI
- All Sever Daemons disabled under the Servers Group
- Disabling Dialup Networking Support under Base System
- Everything else default
Firewall and SELinux disabled.
NTP (Network Time Protocol) turned on, and Synchronize system clock before starting service enabled
Install needed oracle libs and update the system to latest patch level
- rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS//rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
- yum update
- yum install vim-enhanced syslogd mlocate nfs-utils telnet nmap strace gdb
- yum install xorg-x11-xinit xfdesktop Xorg xorg-x11-deprecated-libs
- yum -y install sysstat compat-db gcc libstdc++-devel openmotif22 libXtst xorg-x11-deprecated-libs binutils-devel gcc-c++ glibc-devel compat-libstdc++-33
- yum groupinstall xfce
- yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
If you want a webserver run the following three commands.
- yum install httpd
- chkconfig httpd on
- chkconfig httpd --list
Initial Operating System Installation
Step by Step Instructions for installation of CentOS 5.8
Boot the system with the CentOS 5.8 32bit DVD.
See Also:
Choose the Server's Role
We are now ready to choose your server’s role and continue setup based on its role:
- Continue with instructions for development environment to compile HeroEngine Server Daemons
- Continue with instructions for setting up a HeroEngine Server
- Oracle Database
Reference
Other Versions
See also
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