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Below is a modified version of Patrick Harper's Snort install guide that I adapted to work with ZoneMinder. When all of the bugs have been completely worked out then I will make a custom install cd if there is enough demand for it.

At present I only have a Logitech Quickcam 4000 to use for testing and have confirmed that I am able to view/record video with this procedure.

Installing CentOS 5:

This is a minimal install of CentOS 5.X (or you can use RHEL 5.X with no changes or Fedora Core with few changes) this starts with a minimal install, and then uses yum to add the packages needed.

You will start at a grub screen that has boot:, hit enter. Then you can either choose to check your cd’s or skip. If you know they are good then skip it otherwise you might want to check them out.


Welcome:
Click next

Language:
English

Keyboard:
U.S. English

Install Type:
Choose custom

Disk Partitioning:
Choose to automatically partition the hard drive.
Choose to remove all partitions from this hard drive (I am assuming that this not a dual boot box)
Make sure the review button is checked

When the warning dialog comes up, choose Yes.

Accept the default layout. Most of the disk will be /

Boot Loader:
Go with the default (if this is a dual boot system then go to google and search for info on how to install grub for dual booting)

Network Configuration:
Hit edit, Uncheck “Configure with DHCPâ€

Thanks for a Very nice little howto. You might check and see whats in the wiki and add or edit any notes for CentOS there. I know there are are alot of howto's there and it really what we have the wiki for.

I've still got a few bugs to work out and was hoping I'd get some feedback from people about how to go about fixing it....primarily the proper install procedure for ffmpeg and Cambozola

Once I get those figured out I'll try to add it to the wiki since there's not one for CentOS.

Procedures for CentOS (I use centOS almost exclusively) are pretty much the same as Fedora. As far as ffmpeg, they do not do releases very often, and as such, using SVN they often change things that break usage for us so it's a on going battle

Cambozola is as simple as putting cambozola.jar in your web path some where and enabling it in the console after you set the path relative to the web root location of where zm console is installed. ie:
File location: /var/www/html/zm/cambozola.jar
Path: cambozola.jar
Tick the enable field for cambozola

Your done.

cordel wrote:Cambozola is as simple as putting cambozola.jar in your web path some where and enabling it in the console after you set the path relative to the web root location of where zm console is installed. ie:
File location: /var/www/html/zm/cambozola.jar
Path: cambozola.jar
Tick the enable field for cambozola

Does it matter which version? The one available from zoneminder.com is .22 whereas from charliemouse.com it is .68. I used .68 on one of my test installs but didn't have any Windows machines to test it with at the moment.

Is the enable field setting stored in the mysql db or in a text file? If I make an install cd I would want to automatically configure that via script during install.

Some of the newer cambozola files had some issues, but I don't recall what spacificly they were.
We already have a live cd project. Your efforts would be better served there. http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11090

I have started a how-to on the Wiki. I will have it finished this week. Right now I have the steps posted. Next I will provide the explanations.

http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/CentOS

mudputty wrote:I have started a how-to on the Wiki. I will have it finished this week. Right now I have the steps posted. Next I will provide the explanations.

http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/CentOS

Used your guide and it went great. I updated the guide for CentOS v5.3 and ZM 1.24.2 for i386 and x86_64.