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CentOS 5 Single CD Install
When installing CentOS 5 it may prompt you that all five CDs are required to complete the install. To avoid this, for a server install, simply make sure that you select the "Customize Now" on the software packages selection page and uncheck all of the items under each menu.
Once you have installed the basic OS run "yum update" and then you can then use yum to install your needed applications such as VIM, WGET, etc.
To install Apache (httpd), PHP, MySQL (server and client), and the component that allows php to talk to mysql run the following command:
yum -y install httpd php mysql mysql-server php-mysql
January 20th, 2008 - 18:00
For those wondering, there is no Centos 5 Server CD. Just use disc 1 as described above.
April 5th, 2009 - 20:39
I’m unable to get centos-5.3 to install using only the 1-of-6 CD. It prompts for disc 1 & 2 even when no packages are selected.
I’m using the linux text install (versus graphical)
April 12th, 2009 - 11:49
I had a problem like that when using the GUI install, I checked again and I had some packages installed. Make sure to uncheck everything including VI text editor, etc etc.
April 17th, 2009 - 19:47
@Hasan
FYI, Depending on what type of HDD or LVM you are installing to, it can require extra packages to make use of the LogVol or Raid.