Instructions for installing CentOS on your computer » History » Version 38
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| 1 | 1 | Amber Herold | h1. Instructions for installing CentOS on your computer |
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| 4 | 23 | Amber Herold | h2. Why CentOS? |
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| 6 | 38 | Anchi Cheng | [[Linux distribution recommendation]] |
| 7 | 23 | Amber Herold | If you have a new computer(s) for your Leginon/Appion installation, we recommend installing CentOS because it is considered to be more stable than other varieties of Linux. |
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| 9 | 22 | Amber Herold | CentOS is the same as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), except that it is free and supported by the community. |
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| 11 | 1 | Amber Herold | The reason I mention CentOS is because I wanted to keep the guide really simple. Another student and I run appion on Fedora 10 and we've run appion on SuSe in the past. I know we gotten most bits working on MacOSX, but some of the python libraries contain ancient Fortran code that does not compile easily on a Mac. But CentOS is certainly not a requirement in general, it is just that the first iteration of the guide is written for CentOS. |
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| 13 | 21 | Amber Herold | We provide the following instructions for CentOS Installation: |
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| 15 | 27 | Neil Voss | h2. Download the ISO disk of CentOS 5.4 |
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| 17 | 1 | Amber Herold | # ISO files are available at |
| 18 | 8 | Amber Herold | ## http://wiki.centos.org/Download |
| 19 | 1 | Amber Herold | # Click on i386 for 32bit machines or x86_64 for 64bit machines |
| 20 | 27 | Neil Voss | # Pick a mirror and download 'CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso' file |
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| 22 | 33 | Neil Voss | h2. Confirm download went correctly |
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| 24 | perform a SHA1SUM confirmation: |
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| 26 | <pre> |
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| 27 | sha1sum CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso |
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| 28 | </pre> |
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| 30 | 34 | Neil Voss | The result should be the same as in the sha1sum file provided by CentOS: |
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| 32 | * http://centos.mirrors.tds.net/pub/linux/centos/5.4/isos/x86_64/sha1sum.txt for 64bit |
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| 33 | * http://centos.mirrors.tds.net/pub/linux/centos/5.4/isos/i386/sha1sum.txt for 32bit |
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| 36 | 33 | Neil Voss | |
| 37 | 1 | Amber Herold | h2. Burn ISO file to DVD disk |
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| 39 | 6 | Amber Herold | Use dvdrecord in Linux to burn disk |
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| 41 | 27 | Neil Voss | <pre> |
| 42 | 33 | Neil Voss | dvdrecord -v -dao gracetime=10 dev=/dev/dvd speed=16 CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso |
| 43 | 6 | Amber Herold | </pre> |
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| 45 | 27 | Neil Voss | h2. Install CentOS 5.4 with default packages |
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| 47 | 28 | Neil Voss | * Setup network, root, password as desired |
| 48 | * This install will assume that only *"Desktop - GNOME"* to be selected |
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| 49 | 1 | Amber Herold | * More information available at [http://wiki.centos.org/Documentation CentOS Documentation] |
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| 51 | 23 | Amber Herold | h2. Add yourself to the sudoers file |
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| 53 | Make sure you have root permission. |
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| 54 | 12 | Amber Herold | Open the file in an editor. ex. vi /etc/sudoers |
| 55 | 1 | Amber Herold | Look for the line: root ALL=(ALL) ALL. |
| 56 | 15 | Amber Herold | Add this line below the root version: |
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| 58 | <pre> |
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| 59 | 37 | Amber Herold | your_username ALL=(ALL) ALL |
| 60 | 6 | Amber Herold | </pre> |
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| 62 | 1 | Amber Herold | Logout and log back in with your username. |
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| 64 | The CentOS installation is complete. |
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| 67 | 32 | Amber Herold | ______ |
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| 69 | 25 | Amber Herold | [[Download additional Software|Download additional Software >]] |
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| 72 | 32 | Amber Herold | ______ |