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Dennis Matotek, James Turnbull and Peter Lieverdink, Pro Linux System Administration, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2008-5_2

2. Installing Linux

By James Turnbull, Peter Lieverdink, and Dennis Matotek

Dennis Matotek, James Turnbull2 and Peter Lieverdink3

(1)Footscray, Victoria, Australia

(2)Brooklyn, New York, USA

(3)North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

In this chapter, we’re going to take you through the process of installing a host with CentOS and a host with Ubuntu Server. We’ll show each distribution’s installation process using the graphical installation tools and detail the options available during installation. We’re going to perform the base installation and also install the packages needed to ...

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