Monday, August 17, 2009

CentOS 5.3 minimal installation with X as VMware guest

  1. get ISO of the latest version of CentOS 5 from the CentOS website, centos.org. You will only need the first disc or the net install disc. (eg. CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-1of7.iso)
  2. following normal installation but deselect all pkg (refer to screenshot)
  3. after reboot. add EPEL repo (EPEL - FedoraProject), such that iceWM is available.
    # rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm

  4. install additional pkg (yum install):
    • xorg-x11-twm
    • xorg-x11-xfs
    • xorg-x11-xinit
    • xorg-x11-server-Xorg
    • xorg-x11-drv-vmware
    • urw-fonts (needed by icewm)
    • icewm
    • vnc-server
    • vnc