Creating a base CentOS 6.4 Image for Pivotal HD Installation
Pivotal HD 2.0 is simple to install once you have a proper base to install to. However, there are some prerequisites and some things you can do to make the install process simpler. Although these instructions were mainly for a virtual machine based install, they can be used for a physical machine based install by just ignoring certain steps. Virtual Hardware I started off with a small VM to build the image on. I can always re-size the virtual hardware later on if needed. The base VM I started with was 1 CPU, 2 GB Memory and 8 GB of disk. If you are installing to physical, you probably need to follow the recommended sizing guide for Pivotal HD at http://docs.gopivotal.com/pivotalhd/InstallingPHDUsingtheCLI.html . Installing CentOS Next, I installed CentOS 6.4 using the minimal ISO which can be downloaded from http://vault.centos.org/6.4/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-minimal.iso . Either burn it to a CD, or USB stick (http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey), or use