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How To Install Centos 6.3 On Vmware Workstation 9: Jeong Chul

This document provides instructions for installing CentOS 6.3 on VMware Workstation 9. It discusses partitioning the disk, including using primary and logical partitions. It recommends using 2 primary and 3 logical partitions in one example layout, and 3 primary and 5 logical partitions in another example. It also outlines a file system layout, assigning mount points like /boot, /, /home, /var, and /usr to different partitions, and specifying the recommended disk space for each.

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How To Install Centos 6.3 On Vmware Workstation 9: Jeong Chul

This document provides instructions for installing CentOS 6.3 on VMware Workstation 9. It discusses partitioning the disk, including using primary and logical partitions. It recommends using 2 primary and 3 logical partitions in one example layout, and 3 primary and 5 logical partitions in another example. It also outlines a file system layout, assigning mount points like /boot, /, /home, /var, and /usr to different partitions, and specifying the recommended disk space for each.

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How to install CentOS 6.

3
on VMware Workstation 9

Jeong Chul
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Computer Science
ITC and RUPP in Cambodia

How to install CentOS 6.3 On VMware 9


Part 1 Vmware settting
Part 2 CentOS 6.3 setting

Partition plan

Step 1 Linux Partition


1. Maximum partitions per each hard disk

16 partitions total on an SCSI disk


63 total on an IDE disk

2. Partition Types
a. Primary Partition

Maximum 4 partitions
b. Extended Partition
contain logical partition
one extended partition
c. Logical Partition
in case of need over 4 partitions
start from number 5 ex) /dev/sda5, /dev/hda5
belong to Extended partition

Step 2 Linux Partition Example


1. 2 primary and 3 logical partitions
Partition type

Partition number

Primary

sda1, sda2

Extended

sda3

Logical

sda5, sda6, sda7

2. 3 primary and 5 logical partitions


Partition type

Partition number

Primary

sda1, sda2, sda3

Extended

sda4

Logical

sda5, sda6, sda7, sda8, sda9

Step 3 Linux File System Layout


In case hard disk space is 30 Gb
Drive name

Mount Point

/dev/sda1

/boot

/dev/sda2

/dev/sda3

Description

Disk space(Mb)

Kernel images

100

Files & directories critical for


system operation

8000

swap

Memory on hard disk

1024

/dev/sda5

/home

Users home directory

500

/dev/sda6

/var

Spool & error log directory

8000

/dev/sda7

/usr

Packages & binary files

12000

How to install CentOS 6.3


on VMware Workstation 9

Thank you & God bless you!!


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