Category Archives: centos

Creating EBS based Amazon EC2 instances

Posted on February 21, 2011 by kerneljack

So I had to create an Amazon EC2 instance quickly and ideally it had to be as plain a CentOS instance as possible. Now the first thought that I had was to find a way of creating one from scratch … Continue reading →

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Turn off the linux console display

Posted on July 1, 2010 by kerneljack

I needed a way to turn off the display on an old netbook that I am using as a low-powered server. I installed CentOS 5.5 on the netbook and set the ‘inittab’ to boot into console mode by default however … Continue reading →

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Creating a bootable USB stick with Centos 5.4

Posted on March 19, 2010 by kerneljack

OK, other people have also written about this, but the information seems to be cluttered all over the place in different forums or the CentOS wiki. The most straightforward way I found to do this is as follows. Credit for … Continue reading →

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