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Install the Operating System


Next, you must choose an operating system to install. This example will use CentOS 5. That's “Community Enterprise Operating System (version 5)” This is a very stable operating system. Again, you can choose another distribution, but in this document, I'm just giving examples of my own preferences to get you started. If you are unfamiliar with Linux, and choose a different distribution, you could get lost very quickly while trying to follow this document!


Go to cp.vpslink.com, and enter the username and password you gave when you signed up for the VPSLink service.


Now, you must install the OS




Choose your Operating system, and submit your choice. Here we are chosing Centos-5-i386-LAMP. This package will consume around 700MB of your virtual hard drive. LAMP = Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, which is a common configuration for a web server.




Be sure the installation was successful, and, go to your VPS Home.





Write down the IP address for your Virtual Machine. We will need this to configure your DNS later on.