Difference between revisions of "Installing CentOS 8"

Revision as of 18:09, 24 September 2020

This is the install notes for CentOS 8 (linux/stream) - this should only be used for the platform servers.

Create disk using Universal USB installer 1.9.9.3
had to change D:/EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg change
...inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=CentOS-Stream-8-x86_64-dvd quiet to ...inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=UUI quiet
and add rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0 after quiet if graphic issues
can also change LABEL when it gets to boot menu using tab
root account/passwd, sort connection first (hostname *.eee.nottingham.ac.uk), if usb can't be found use network install and find correct repo (http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/BaseOS/x86_64/os/), packages include files and storage server + network servers + standard, select all drives and click next to configure
dnf install http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
dnf grouplist
had to enable powertools in etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-PowerTools.repo
yum repolist to check
dnf groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces"
systemctl set-default graphical.target
yum install sddm\*
systemctl enable sddm -f
yum install nfs* autofs yp*
follow kubuntu install guide from access shared drives, do systemctl enable rpcbind ypbind autofs
authselect list; authselect check; authselect disable-feature with-mkhomedir; authselect apply-changes
getsebool -a | less; setsebool -P allow_ypbind 1; setsebool -P automount_disable_trans 1; setsebool -P nfs_export_all_rw 1; use_nfs_home_dirs

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 * yum install nfs* autofs yp*
 * follow kubuntu install guide from access shared drives, do systemctl enable rpcbind ypbind autofs
+* authselect list; authselect check; authselect disable-feature with-mkhomedir; authselect apply-changes
+* getsebool -a | less; setsebool -P allow_ypbind 1; setsebool -P automount_disable_trans 1; setsebool -P nfs_export_all_rw 1; use_nfs_home_dirs