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7th January 2009, 02:00 PM
FN-GM

What Download?

Hi

I am just baout to download CentOs, there are loads of iso's. I just need to install it to make it as a webserver.

Which one do i need please? - Index of /centos/5.2/isos/i386

Thanks

Z
7th January 2009, 02:19 PM
danIT

Well I think you will have to download them all? Or download the DVD from a Torrent?

But if you just want a web server why not just install Centos 4?

http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mir...verCD-i386.iso

Thats why i did a week ago?
7th January 2009, 02:21 PM
matt40k

I just download the DVD image from Kent or get the VM image from jailtime.org.
7th January 2009, 02:36 PM
plexer

Ubuntu LTS server versions?

Ben
7th January 2009, 02:49 PM
powdarrmonkey

Start with disk 1 and just install the base system, then add Apache from the package manager. Then you only have to cut 1 CD :-)

I don't know how many CentOS people are around here though if you get stuck, Ubuntu or Debian might be wiser unless you have particular reason to use CentOS.
7th January 2009, 03:34 PM
kmount

I'm versed with CentOS so you can rely on me if you want; that said, have a nose at this tutorial which although uses the DVD image it's a good one to work with.

Alternatively, consider Debian or Ubuntu as a lot more folks are more clued up on that on here certainly from experience.
7th January 2009, 03:35 PM
powdarrmonkey

To be fair, I used to use CentOS quite a lot, but it was a while ago.
7th January 2009, 03:41 PM
kmount

Yeah; I "upgraded" to Gentoo for most needs but debian for "simpler" set ups to just work.
7th January 2009, 03:44 PM
webman

One thing that annoyed me with CentOS was their lack of a single-CD server ISO, like Ubuntu has.

That was one of the reasons I switched. Personally I think Ubuntu is better because it: has a single server CD, has a better package management system with better repositories, is faster (in my tests).
7th January 2009, 03:44 PM
Iain

Another CentOS user here, more than willing to try and help :) I agree with powdarrmonkey, I usually do a minimum install with disk 1 and install whatever I need afterwards with the package manager.

Iain.
7th January 2009, 09:15 PM
CyberNerd

heres a link to the dvd iso
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/m...86-bin-DVD.iso
8th January 2009, 06:14 AM
kmount

Quote:

has a better package management system with better repositories, is faster (in my tests).

I'm not sure whether you mean the actual whole OS feels quicker or whether the repos do, if the latter I always liked how apt-get was quicker than yum (easier to get the name of a pkg wrong and not wait 3 days for yum to inform you, even with -C).