I wanted to double-check with everyone if I correctly installed my CentOS and cPanel. This will be my first time so I really want to know if I did it correctly before I ship the server out to the Colo facility. I spent the time and went step by step everything I did.
1. Loaded
CentOS 5.1 32bit CD
2. Run setup in GUI mode
3. Choose English for install laung
4. Choose US English for keyboard type
5. In partitions area, choose "Create custom layout" and clicked next
6. Created the following partitions based of 1TB HD space and 8GB RAM.
swap 8GB
ext3 /boot 512MB
ext3 /tmp 2GB
ext3 /usr 50GB
ext3 / 2GB
ext3 /var 60GB
ext3 /home fill to max 820~GB
??? I was wondering, can I just create a 100GB "/" partition and allow /var & /usr to share it vs. create 3 of them? So I'd just have /home, /boot, /tmp and /. Is there any issues with doing it this way? Cons vs. the above?
7. Taken to boot loader screen and choose default option of using GRUB boot loader. It installs under /dev/sda
?? do I need boot loader, and should I have installed it under the /boot parition not the default /dev/sda???
8. Taken to network config screen and configured eth0 IP/netmask and hostname and gateway and 2 isp dns servers.
???? Should I keep IPV6 enabled?
9. Taken to timezone screen and configure correct zone.
10. Taken to root password config screen and configure root password
11. Taken to install options screen which has a list of general install packages to choose from they are:
Desktop GNOME, Desktop KME, Server, Server GUI, (I unchecked Desktop GNMOE) I also choose "Customize now" and clicked next
12. Taken to screen that has install options in more detail and has categories on left and details on the right side. The selection is as follows:
Desktop Environment - Left all uncheked
Applications - Editors and Text Based internet was checked (left both options checked).
Development - Left all unchecked
(should I have checked anything in this one???)
Server - LEft all unchecked
Base System - Base and Dial up networking was checked, I unchecked Dialup networking.
Virtualization - left all unchecked
Clustering - Left all unchecked
language - left all unchecked.
13. Install starts format of partitions and installs OS. Out of all 6 CDs, only #1 was used.
14. When system boot for first time I am taken to a bluescreen DOS-Like GUI interface titled "Setup Agent" It had 4 config areas in which to setup. I only made changes to 1 of them.
1 Authentication
2. Firewall Configuration - I went in and disabled Firewall and disabled SELinux.
3. Network Configuration
4. System Services
15. Taken to command prompt.
16. I type "yum update" and system updates kernal and packages.
17. I than do:
# /home
# wget
http://layer1.cpanel.net/latest
# sh latest
cPanel installs and finishes
Log into web interface to finish setup.
Configure CSF.
OK, so My question is, did I miss anything from the installing of CentOS upto the cPanel install, such as missing install packages from centos or not running other commands on system before I install. I ask this because I have 4 more servers to setup and don't want to be configuring these boxes wrong.