Is there a centos 5 how-to for less than beginners?
 

I need a newbie resource to learn centos 5 installation and setup as a home business file server. In the future we will expand its functions, but for now just file serving.

Thanks,

Shimon

Read the documentation :
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/

You can do a minimal server install by choosing to customise the installed packages from the graphical install, and unchecking all the packages. But you will be left with a command line environment only - is that what you want ?
Otherwise just select one desktop environment and what ever fileserving software you want under Servers in the package chooser.
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5....tion-group-x86
I suggest you leave everything else as default, especially the partitioning and boot set up.

No, I have no Linux experience with the power-using command line interface. I need a GUI interface until I am comfortable in the (BASH) shell. Your link is greatly appreciated.

Thank you,


Shimon

http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/colla...s/openprinting
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/
http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/
http://linuxcommand.org/
http://lnag.sourceforge.net/

It sounds as if the file server part will take up more of your time than the install; in that case, what you are most likely to need concerns Linux networking and file serving. The link to 'linuxhomenetworking' in post #4 covers all of this (and more).

The only way to get comfortable on the command line is to just jump right in...

:twocents:

-C

with your lack of linux experience you might want to think about paying Red Hat for the tech support

and install REHL 5.4 . the tech support is well worth the caust $$$ in the long run .

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-se...64-ispconfig-3

It's worth the read.

This works just as well for Centos : http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_boo...ion/index.html

Thanks chrism01, bookmarking that link.

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shimonbenyaakov, what you might want to do is pay Red Hat for a year or two then take over after you have learned a few things .