{"id":95,"date":"2009-05-30T10:52:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T16:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2009-05-30T10:54:17","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T16:54:17","slug":"centos-53-minimal-vps-install-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/30\/centos-53-minimal-vps-install-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"CentOS 5.3 Minimal VPS Install Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just did this yesterday; you can pretty much just follow my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/29\/centos-51-minimal-vps-install-guide\/\">CentOS 5.1 Minimal VPS Install Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The differences are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When you get to the &#8220;More Minimizing&#8221; section, <code>yum -C grouplist<\/code> will show a package called &#8220;Yum Utilities&#8221; which you probably want to leave installed.<\/li>\n<li>The <code>Deployment_Guide-en-US<\/code> file is not there so you don&#8217;t need to remove it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>I should also note that downloading a 3.9GB DVD ISO image in order to build a ~700MB installed OS may not be very efficient. I didn&#8217;t bother looking for a network installer but that might be the way to get this done faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just did this yesterday; you can pretty much just follow my CentOS 5.1 Minimal VPS Install Guide. The differences are: When you get to the &#8220;More Minimizing&#8221; section, yum -C grouplist will show a package called &#8220;Yum Utilities&#8221; which you probably want to leave installed. The Deployment_Guide-en-US file is not there so you don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/30\/centos-53-minimal-vps-install-guide\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CentOS 5.3 Minimal VPS Install Guide&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,2,51,15,42,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centos","category-linux","category-parallels","category-servers","category-vmware","category-xen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}