The Book of Xen

Installing CentOS

First, we'll install CentOS in a completely ordinary way. Put the install medium in the drive, boot from it, and install it according to your preference. We opted to accept the default partitioning, which creates a small /boot partition and devotes the rest of the drive to an LVM group, with a logical volume for swap and a volume for root. We also accepted the default configuration for the GRUB boot loader and the default network config.

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Now would also be a good time to make sure you have some sort of Internet access.

Set your time zone and enter a root password. We're just running through the standard CentOS install process at this point—it's probably familiar territory. Follow the prompts as usual.

Next comes package selection. ...