CentOS NetInstall settings

Did we already say that among the different Linux distributions we embrace CentOS? CentOS is a community driven project derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor.  CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible.

In any case, one of the best features is to be able to have CentOS installed with a NetInstall. That means all you have to do is to download the 8MB ISO image, burn it (or use it as a startup image if you want to setup a virtual machine) and off you go. With NetInstall you don’t need to download the 5+ GB DVD or 6 ISO images anymore. Also, only the packages that you need will be downloaded.

As a note: when you get to the screen where you can define the source of the CentOS images you will want to enter the following:

For 32-bit:

Host: isoredirect.centos.org
Directory: centos-5/5.2/os/i386/

For 64-bit:

Host: isoredirect.centos.org
Directory: centos-5/5.2/os/x86_64/