How to Install CentOS 7 Step by Step with Screenshots
Step 1: Download The ISO
To get a copy of CentOS 7 download from Following Link. Download centOS 7 64 bit platforms ISO image. This is primarily due to the fact that most servers in production are 64 bit.
Step 2: Make A bootable Drive
Step 3: Begin Installation
- To begin installation, click on the Install to Hard Drive icon on the desktop
- Select your preferred language as well as the Keyboard type you have.
- By default the Anaconda installer will choose automatic partitioning for your hard disk. Click on the Installation Destination icon to change this to custom partitioning.
Click on the hard drive you want to install CentOS 7 and under the Other Storage Options, choose I will configure partitioning then click Done.
- Next select the partitioning scheme to use for the mount points. In this case choose Standard Partition.
- Create A Swap Space: You can create a swap space from one of the partitions and set the desired capacity, which is dependent on the RAM you have. Choose the File System for swap space as swap, and click on Reformat, though reformatting is optional. You can also name your swap space to whatever name you like but a name like swap is more descriptive.
- Create A Mount Point The next step is to create a mount point where the root partition will be installed. Depending on your requirements you might need to put the boot, home and root partition on different mount points. For this case we shall have only one mount point /.
After this set the Label and Desired Capacity to whatever you wish. A rule of thumb is to use descriptive names for the Label especially if the computer is to be used by different system administrators.
Choose the file system as ext4 and click on reformat.
- After completing above steps successfully click on Done button. A prompt window will appear with a summary of changes that will take place. If you are satisfied with them click Accept changes.
- Click on the clock icon under the localization menu and select a time zone from the map of the world, then click Done.
- Now after configuring the System and Localization settings you can click on the Begin Installation button.
- Installation will begin immediately and as it proceeds you need to set up a User account as well as the root password.
- Click on the root password option and enter a password and confirmation of the same then click Done.
- The next step is to create a user account. Enter the correct details and if this is the administrator account, tick Make this user administrator and Require a password to use this account for security purposes.
- The installer should complete installing the software and the bootloader.
Once complete you should get a success message, after which you can click quit.
Logout from the Live system and login to your new installation.
- Gnome 3 Desktop Environment: CentOS 7 comes with Gnome 3 which is very convenient when you have a touch screen.
CentOS 7 has greatly improved from version 6.5 and now is easier to adopt it as a Desktop OS compared to its predecessor. For those that probably cannot keep up with Fedora releases every 6 months, CentOS 7 is a good consideration. Try it out today!
No comments: