Comments on: Installing CentOS 5.4

By: Arul Kumar

Arul Kumar — Tue, 03 May 2011 11:58:10 +0000

I was trying to install Centos by using LiveCD. But there was no option to do that as you have discussed here above. The Link you have mentioned here is also seems something like CentOS livecd. I would like to install CentOS GNOME desktop. Can I download it from http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/x86_64/ and start the installation process.
I am now using 64 bit machine. When I selected the folder for machine type which is listing lot many URLs. Which file I do need to select to install the Desktop version from the URL or from the directory http://mirrors.hns.net.in/centos/5.6/isos/x86_64/

By: baiqiuyi

baiqiuyi — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:22:10 +0000

I have been Centos and GNOME for several years.

By: cmonroy

cmonroy — Wed, 12 May 2010 20:42:47 +0000

I installed CentOS 5.3, but it won’t show the graphic screen. I had to install it from text interface, as the graphic mode was in error. Any easy way to run the gui? Thanks

By: bob

bob — Tue, 11 May 2010 20:28:54 +0000

I upgraded to Centos 5.4 from Ubuntu, precisely because it is not an unstable OS with a service life that’s equivalent to a flash in the pan, like Ubuntu or Fedora. I was using the previous “Long Term Service” version of Ubuntu, with the expectation that bugs would be fixed throughout its advertised service life. Well, they weren’t. It turns out that Ubuntu wouldn’t fix the “SAMBA lockup on shutdown” bugs in their “LTS” release, and they demanded that I upgrade to one of the 6-month lifecycle releases to fix the problem. That’s unacceptable. I need a stable, enterprise class OS that works, not some hobbyist geek distribution that lasts only for a 6 month lifetime. Ubuntu may be popular among the amateurs, but its grossly unstable for enterprise deployment and the distribution is severely lacking in long term, enterprise class support. There is no real Long Term Support in Ubuntu — as soon as the LTS release gets a little older than 6 months the developers stop working on it. They expect you to upgrade to an unstable, testing branch system because they don’t care about supporting old software. They only want to work on new projects, they don’t want to fix old ones. Centos has a 7 year lifespan. Much better.

By: Steven Li

Steven Li — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:07:00 +0000

I tried installed CentOS 5.4 on VirtualBox from CentOS 5.4 DVD image, but VirtualBox regard it as CD, and let me insert CD2, how can I do ?

By: W

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:51:39 +0000

Very nice. Did you try to upgrade from 5.3 to 5.4? I’m wondering if the upgrade process is painless, since I’ll probably have to do it on a server at work.

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Links 03/11/2009: KDE 4.3.3, Mandriva 2010 Released | Boycott Novell — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:19:26 +0000

[...] Installing CentOS 5.4 CentOS has not received much attention here on Ghacks, so I thought I would remedy that by introducing this outstanding flavor of Linux not by way of a Live CD (CentOS does have a Live CD, but you can not install from that CD), but by way of traditional means. Because of this you will have tutorial. But first, a little history (which might divulge reason for you to use CentOS). [...]

By: Vonskippy

Vonskippy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:27:29 +0000

If by “outdated” you mean the latest STABLE version then I agree. CentOS is a ENTERPRISE class OS, it’s not meant to be bleeding edge flaky unstable.

By: techprism

techprism — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:21:20 +0000

Very nice guide. but i dont think CentOS has gained that much attention, while UBuntu & Fedora are very much in use today.