CentOS-4 Documentation

Installation Guide (x86, x86_64, ia64 arches) | (pdf) (rpm) (tarball)
Installation Guide (s390 and s390x arches) | (pdf) (rpm) (tarball)
Installation Guide (ppc arch) | (pdf) (rpm) (tarball)
Introduction to System Administration | (pdf) (rpm) (tarball)
System Administration Guide | (pdf) (tarball)
Reference Guide | (pdf) (rpm) (tarball)
Security Guide | (pdf) (rpm) (tarball)
Step by Step Guide | (pdf) (tarball)
SELinux Guide | (pdf) (tarball)
Desktop Deployment Guide | (pdf) (tarball)

Note: The above documentation is provided {and copyrighted} by Red Hat®, Inc. The documentation is released via the Open Publication License (V1.0 or later). The copyright holder has added the further requirement that "Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder." Here is the copyright notice in it's entirety.

The CentOS project redistributes these original works (in their unmodified form) as a reference for CentOS-4, because CentOS-4 is built from publicly available, open source SRPMS. We don't modify the above files in any way to be compliant with the distribution policy.

Cluster Suite - Global File System

CentOS specific CSGFS Notes.

Cluster Suite 4

Cluster Suite Overview for CentOS 4.5
Configuring and Managing a Cluster for CentOS 4.5
LVM Administrator's Guide for CentOS 4.5
Linux Virtual Server Administration for CentOS 4.5

Cluster Suite Configuring and Managing a Cluster (CentOS 4.4) | (pdf) (tarball)

Release Notes:
Cluster Suite 4 Release Notes (CentOS-4.2)
Cluster Suite 4 Release Notes (CentOS-4.3)
Cluster Suite 4 Release Notes (CentOS-4.4)
Cluster Suite 4 Release Notes (CentOS-4.5)

GFS 6.1

Global File System for CentOS 4.5
Using GNBD with GFS for CentOS 4.5
Oracle Real Application Clusters GFS

GFS 6.1 Administrator's Guide (CentOS 4.4) | (pdf) (tarball)

Release Notes:
GFS 6.1 Release Notes (CentOS-4)
GFS 6.1 Release Notes (CentOS-4.2)
GFS 6.1 Release Notes (CentOS-4.3)
GFS 6.1 Release Notes (CentOS-4.4)

Note: The above CS/GFS documentation is provided {and copyrighted} by Red Hat®, Inc. The documentation is released via the Open Publication License (V1.0 or later).

The CentOS project redistributes these original works (in their unmodified form) as a reference for CentOS-4, because CentOS-4 is built from publicly available, open source SRPMS. We don't modify the above files in any way to be compliant with the distribution policy.

Burning ISOs

ISO Burning HowTo

Yum Documentation


Managing Software with yum
Yum Extender on CentOS4

Release Notes


CentOS specific latest release notes.

Note: The below linked release notes are provided {and copyrighted} by Red Hat®, Inc. The CentOS Project redistributes these original works (in their unmodified form) as a reference for CentOS-4. CentOS-4 is built from publicly available, open source SRPMs.

CentOS-4.0
i386 | x86_64 | ia64 | s390 | s390x | ppc

CentOS-4.1
i386 | x86_64 | ia64 | s390 | s390x | ppc

CentOS-4.2
i386 | x86_64 | ia64 | s390 | s390x | ppc

CentOS-4.3
i386 | x86_64 | ia64 | s390 | s390x | ppc

CentOS-4.4
i386 | x86_64 | ia64 | s390 | s390x | ppc

CentOS-4.5
i386 | x86_64 | ia64

CentOS-4 and the CentOS Project are not affiliated with, sponsored by, supported by, or in any way associated with the upstream provider or their products.