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Installing CentOS 7 |
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- Select the correct timezone and make sure System uses UTC is enabled.
- Enter the root password.
- Select Create Custom Layout and create a primary partition for the OS and one for swap (create a swap partition as large as the amount of memory you have).
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- Use the ext4 filesystem for all partitions (instead of XFS)
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- Use the provided boot loader configuration.
- Select the Minimal installation option.
- Wait for the installation to finish.
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- Disable the firewall (when in a secure network), by running:
systemctl disable firewalld
- Install the following packages:
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< < | yum install -y sysstat iotop strace tcpdump lsof ntp man man-pages man-pages-overrides mlocate wget perl iptraf-ng bind-utils net-tools psmisc |
> > | yum install -y sysstat iotop strace tcpdump lsof ntp man man-pages man-pages-overrides mlocate wget perl iptraf-ng bind-utils net-tools psmisc vim |
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- Enable irqbalance:
systemctl enable irqbalance.service (only useful on an SMP system)
- Set up /etc/ntp.conf:
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