On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 14:15 -0400, gene.poole at macys.com wrote: > I putzd around and messed up my primary system. I could get it back > with a bunch of work a-rounds but I've decided to do a complete > rebuild of it. What I need to run on this machine (besides the CentOS > 5.2 OS) is Oracle 11g (requires gnome), VMware Server 2, JBoss 5, plus > some other tidbits. > > Does anyone have or know of a checklist that I can use to make sure > I've done everything correctly (as least as far as the OS install and > configuration is concerned)? Did you preserve your original /root/anaconda-ks.cfg file? That would be a starting point. After the machine is up, I have scripts I run to set up /etc/sysctl.conf, etc.