Comments on How to install a CentOS 7 minimal server

Thanks.   Good post.

Download the DVD-image for a minimal install? Bad idea.

Great guide. Just installed the CentOS 7 minimal version on my dedicated server. Thanks a lot.

I'm testing in VBox. My first install succeeded, but couldn't ping any network resources. I decided to reinstall and checked the network settings during install. I needed to manually go into network settings and set the software to auto-activate the network interface during install, and then once completed, I could ping the network and internet resources.

very nice informative article and I already installed the centos minimal in my vaio laptop but I didn't get get an option like software selection from installation summery page .. Now my system has some issues like taking too much time to boot up etc .. I don't have centos dvd so I stuck with how to install and configure yum package on my system because I cant install none of the application and softwares.. Could you please guide me that how can I install yum packages to my system without the help of a live centos dvd .. I'm very new to Linux so I feel strange with Linux ..

thanks

This has been illustrated in very simple and easy manner, i love how to forege team, it is indeed a very good website for the beginer, I run my own website www [dot] himachalirishta [dot] com on a centosserver and i have learned a lot from this site.

And how do you go from minimal centos7 to a fully fledged x-install. I have problems getting xdm to work after installing minimal.

Great Tutorial. I was stuck on "No Network available". Nothing showed up on /sbin/route. But this tutorial helped. I had to turn eth0 on.

What if I have both ipv6 and ipv4?Can i just follow you're instructions the same way you did or did I have to configure ipv6 too? I just followed you're instructions for ipv4.

it is same if i choose text mode. i want minimal instalation

Hey - I do like your tutorials and I am using some of it to get some things working on my systems, but I am using only certain portions to do certain things before I move forward.  For example, I am setting up three servers as virtualization hosts before I do anything else, then I'll use those to create VM's or contianers for things like DNS servers, DHCP, etc., etc.

The one item I believe you should change in this tutorial is that openVZ requires ext4 and doesn't make use of xfs partitions.  At least, that's my understanding - I think I read it in the openVZ documentation or some other tutorial.  Anyway, Centos 7 uses xfs by default if you let it do its own thing with partitioning.  So I would put a disclaimer that if using openVZ on this host that you will want to manually configure the partitioning.  It's still somewhat automatic, as you can click a button to tell the installer to create what it thinks the partition scheme should be, then you can adjust the partitions to use ext4 or whatever else you'd like to do.  For instance, my servers have only two slots for SSD drives.  So I have two 300GB SSDs in a RAID1 configuration and so I click to manually configur partitioning, then I delete the /home that Centos wants to put, and I increase the / (root) parition to take up the entire thing.  That way, I have nearly 276GB to use for VM storage.

Anyway, forgive me if I am mistaken with the filesystem type that openVZ allows, but I did read that it uses ext4 and xfs is a non-started for openVZ.

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