Manual Build of CentOS

So I have a kickstart that I normally use to build my Linux boxes, there are some things like the partition scheme which is tedious to manually do so I advice people starting off to just make one large partition.

We will customize it from the minimize install

Then choose a Server GUI install

Finish the install, you will have to create a user and agree to the EULA

Finally after the install log in as root, remove the virtualization stuff

virsh net-destroy default
virsh net-undefine default
systemctl stop libvirtd
systemctl disable libvirtd
yum erase libvirt-daemon-kvm qemu-kvm \
qemu-kvm-common biosdevname gnome-boxes

And install some packages used in some of my documentation

yum install kexec-tools sssd realmd \
samba-common samba-common-tools \
krb5-workstation openldap-clients \
authconfig authconfig-gtk \
system-config-printer \
system-config-printer-libs \
system-config-users \
system-config-users-docs \
system-storage-manager \
postfix mutt \
logwatch net-snmp net-snmp-utils \
openldap-clients nss-pam-ldapd \
samba-winbind samba-winbind-clients \
nfs-utils

I also disable the firewall and selinux make things easier for a person starting off with CentOS Linux.

I have put out a kickstart script as well

http://my.apolonio.tech/ks/servergui.cfg

Root password is password and there is linux user named support with the password changeme

Will post in the future how to use that kickstart script.

Off topic, but I did run today, or tried to at least. Preparing for the 1/2 marathon.

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