CentOS Box for Vagrant

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Installing CentOS

Notes

These instructions install ruby and rubygems from source, not from RPMs. For instructions on installing from RPMs, look at something like http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installation+on+RHEL+and+CentOS+5+with+RPMs or http://mykestubbs.com/blog/2010/03/chef-installation-on-centos-54.html

Download net install iso: http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.4/isos/i386/CentOS-5.4-i386-netinstall.iso

Create a new VirtualBox machine

• Name: vagrant-centos
• Operating System: Linux
• Version: Red Hat
• Base Memory Size: 360 MB
• Create new hard disk
• Dynamically expanding storage
• 40 GB
• Disable Audio
• Disable USB
• Make sure network is set to NAT
• Attach the net install ISO to the CDROM
• Run it

Run through install procedure

• (mode: linux text)
• Installation Method: HTTP
• Disable IPv6, leave IPv4 enabled with DHCP
• HTTP Setup:
  • Web site name: mirrors.kernel.org
  • CentOS directory: /centos/5.4/os/i386
• Use text mode
• Initialize drive and erase data: yes
• Configure network: yes
  • Set hostname to vagrant-centos
• Root password: vagrant
• Customize software installation:
  • Unselect:
    • Dial-up networking
    • Editors
    • Text-based internet
    • Base
• Remove CDRom media
• Reboot
• Disable firewall
• Run Services:
  • Disable cups

Add stuff

yum install curl ftp rsync sudo time wget which

yum install gcc bzip2 make kernel-devel-`uname -r`

yum install gcc-c++ zlib-devel openssl-devel readline-devel sqlite3-devel

Remove stuff

yum erase wireless-tools gtk2 libX11 hicolor-icon-theme avahi freetype bitstream-vera-fonts

VirtualBox Additions

• Devices -> Install Guest Additions…
• sudo mount -o ro -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt
• sudo sh /mnt/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
• Error about Xwindows install - should be okay (?)

vagrant user

groupadd admin useradd -G admin vagrant passwd vagrant

visudo

echo ‘export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin:/sbin’ >> ~vagrant/.bashrc

Log out as root, log in as vagrant

Add yum sources for most recent released version of chef and ruby available through elff the

and epel repos rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh http://download.elff.bravenet.com/5/i386/elff-release-5-3.noarch.rpm

Install chef

yum –enablerepo=elff-testing install chef

Add Vagrant’s “insecure” public key

mkdir .ssh chmod 755 .ssh curl http://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/raw/master/keys/vagrant.pub > .ssh/authorized_keys chmod 644 .ssh/authorized_keys

Fiddle with MAC addres

• sudo /sbin/ifconfig
• write down MAC address of eth0 (eg. 08:00:27:60:AE:41)

sudo yum clean headers packages dbcache expire-cache

• shut down vm

Export and package

Follow instructions on http://vagrantup.com/docs/base_boxes.html