Installing CentOS 8

This is the install notes for CentOS 8 (linux/stream) - this should only be used for the platform servers.

• Create disk using Universal USB installer 1.9.9.3
• had to change D:/EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg change
• ...inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=CentOS-Stream-8-x86_64-dvd quiet to ...inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=UUI quiet
• and add rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0 after quiet if graphic issues
• can also change LABEL when it gets to boot menu using tab
• root account/passwd, sort connection first (hostname *.eee.nottingham.ac.uk), if usb can't be found use network install and find correct repo (http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/BaseOS/x86_64/os/), packages include files and storage server + network servers + standard, select all drives and click next to configure
• dnf install http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
• dnf grouplist
• had to enable powertools in etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-PowerTools.repo
• yum repolist to check
• dnf groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces"
• systemctl set-default graphical.target
• yum install sddm\*
• systemctl enable sddm -f
• yum install nfs* autofs yp*
• follow kubuntu install guide from access shared drives, do systemctl enable rpcbind ypbind autofs
• authselect list; authselect check; authselect disable-feature with-mkhomedir; authselect apply-changes
• getsebool -a | less; setsebool -P allow_ypbind 1; setsebool -P automount_disable_trans 1; setsebool -P nfs_export_all_rw 1; setsebool -P use_nfs_home_dirs 1;
• dnf groupinstall "Server with GUI"; yum install xrdp; systemctl enable xrdp --now; firewall-cmd --add-port=3389/tcp --permanent; firewall-cmd --reload;