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CentOS 6.3 Step by Step Installation Guide withScreenshots

By Narad Shrestha Under: CentOS, Linux Distros On: July 16, 2012

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This post will guide you a step-by-step installation of Community ENTerpriseOperating System 6.3 (CentOS) with screenshots. Less than three weeks after therelease of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.3. The CentOS Project has released itsclone of RHEL 6.3 distribution on 09 July 2012.

CentOS 6.3 Features

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Many drivers have been updated and improved in virtulisation.2.Upstream has deprecated the Matahari API for operating system management hasbeen deprecated, and there’s new tools for moving physical and virtual machinesinto Virtual KVM machine instances. These new tools from Red Hat are virt-p2vand virt-v2v for physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-virtual migration, respectively.

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Direct Download CentOS 6.3 DVD ISO Images

CentOS-6.3-i386-bin-DVD1.iso1.CentOS-6.3-i386-bin-DVD2.iso2.

CentOS-6.3-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso1.CentOS-6.3-x86_64-bin-DVD2.iso2.

Torrent Download CentOS 6.3 DVD ISO Images

CentOS-6.3-i386-bin-DVD1to2.torrent1.CentOS-6.3-x86_64-bin-DVD1to2.torrent2.

CentOS 6.3 Step by Step Graphical Installation Guide

Boot Computer with CentOS 6.3 OS Installation CD/DVD.

1. Select Install or Upgrade existing system options.



Select Install or Upgrade

2. Choose skip media test as it may take long time to check media.

Skip CentOS 6.3 Media Test

3. CentOS 6.3 Welcome Screen press Next.



CentOS 6.3 Welcome Screen

4. Language Selection.



CentOS 6.3 Language Selection

5. Select appropriate Keyboard.



CentOS 6.3 Keyboard Selection

6. Select Basic Storage Device if your hard drive is attached locally.



CentOS 6.3 Storage Device Selection

7. You may get Storage Device warning, you can click Yes, discard any databutton to Continue.



CentOS 6.3 Storage Device Warning

8. Give a Hostname to the server and click on Configure Network button if youwant to configure network while installation.



CentOS 6.3 Hostname and Network Setup

9. Click Wired tab and click on Add button.



CentOS 6.3 Network Setup

10. Select Connect Automatically, go to ipv4 settings tab and select Methodand select Manual in drop down. Click on Add tab to fill address box with IPAddress, Netmask, Gateway and DNS Server. Here I’m using IP Address192.168.1.6 and DNS Server is 4.2.2.2 for demo. This IP Address may vary inyour environment.



CentOS 6.3 Network Configuration

11. Select Time Zone.



CentOS 6.3 Set Timezone

12. Give a root password.



CentOS 6.3 root Password

13. Select appropriate partitioning as per your requirement.



CentOS 6.3 Partition Selection

14. Verify filesystem. Here, you can edit filesystem If you want.



CentOS 6.3 Partition Verify

15. Disk Format Warning, click on Format.



CentOS 6.3 Disk Format

16. Select Write Changes to disk.



CentOS 6.3 Disk Changes

17. Hard Drive is Formatting.



CentOS 6.3 Disk Formatting

18. Here, you can give Boot loader Password for better security.



CentOS 6.3 Boot Loader Password

19. Select the applications you want to install, you can choose Customize now andclick Next.



CentOS 6.3 Package Selection

20. Select the applications you want to install and click Next.



CentOS 6.3 Packages Selection

21. Installation started, this may take several minutes as per selection of packages.



CentOS 6.3 Installation

22. Installation completed, Please remove CD/DVD and reboot system.



CentOS 6.3 Installation Completes

23. Welcome to CentOS 6.3 Login Screen.



CentOS 6.3 Login Screen

24. CentOS 6.3 Desktop Screen.



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Lorenz Leitner says:July 24, 2012 at 3:15 pm

Nice guide, thanks.

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Forrest Shields says:September 14, 2012 at 9:54 am

Thanks for the guide. I don’t understand why the CentOS website doesn’t have avisual installation guide like yours.

One question… Why in step #9 would you add another wired network adapterinstead of selecting the pre-created “System eth0″ and click the “Edit” button?

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Ravi Saive says:September 14, 2012 at 11:50 am

@Forrest – yes you can select system eth0 to configure your network. and theabove example is just for further Ethernet and DNS configuration if you haveany.

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Macsek says:November 29, 2012 at 5:31 pm

Hi Forrest,

“I don’t understand why the CentOS website doesn’t have a visual installationguide like yours.”

I thought is easy to answer:

“Branded installation instructions and other documentation for “starting outwell” are available for releases through CentOS 5; after that, a license changein upstream sources for this documentation presently rule out creation of“CentOS” branded variants.” http://wiki.centos.org

Reading your question once again shows my citation is probably not the exactanswer for your question, just related.

Have a nice day.Macsek

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September 17, 2012 at 8:53 am

Nice article but what about create custom layout in step 13 please help me up…

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Ravi Saive says:September 17, 2012 at 12:06 pm

@Yogesh – You can select custom layout to create custom partitions as peryour requirement.

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vphotoshop.com says:October 11, 2012 at 4:44 pm

thanks… nice site

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pramod says:October 19, 2012 at 3:28 pm

nice guide

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amaresh says:November 21, 2012 at 5:20 pm

thank you …Helpful

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Hassan says:December 5, 2012 at 5:02 pm

Hi,

Thank you for the guide.But i have one question, i followed all the steps, and after restarting the machine, ilost the graphical interface (i choose web server as installation just like you), and i

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have only command line interface.Can you help me please.

Thank you in advance.

Best regards,

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Ravi Saive says:December 5, 2012 at 5:14 pm

@Hassan,Don’t worry just connect to internet and install graphical interfaces KDE orGNOME with YUM command. Login as root and run the following command.

For KDE

yum groupinstall "X Window System" "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"

For GNOME

yum groupinstall "X Window System" "GNOME Desktop Environment"

If you don’t have internet, then open the file /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo with vi editor, change the “enabled=0″ to “enabled=1″ and mountthe CentOS installation DVD under /media/cdrom/ and run the yum commandsagain.

If you still having any problem, comment here.

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Gita says:March 19, 2013 at 5:10 am

Hi Ravi,I had a VM with CentOS 6.3 installed in my PC (Windows on host). It hadgnome, and I wanted to use kde. I used “yum groupinstall KDE”. It had awarning: no kde-desktop package available…”. Although this installedmany kde features but still didn’t have the option to change to kde (nosuch option during login session. When I tried “KDE” at prompt it replied:no such command). I then found this site and used “yum groupinstall “XWindow System” “KDE”. I restarted my VM and looks like it started theboot process and then goes black…probably some conflict. Anyhelp/suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

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Hassan says:December 5, 2012 at 5:55 pm

Hi,

thank you for your help.I have just to notice that i use vmware player, and the problem of connectoing VMto the physical machine is causing (in part) the choice of the type of virtualconnection between the VM and the physical network.

So, how can i mount the device : cdrom, if i’m using the VM?

Thank you.Best regards,

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Sanjay says:January 3, 2013 at 8:40 pm

Hassan,

If you are using VMWare, you could add it in as a device from VMWareWorkstation Manager and it will appear as one of the devices if you doubleclick the ‘Computer’ icon in your GUI.

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Darwin says:December 12, 2012 at 7:40 pm

Just an fyi…the most recent .iso files are not bootable, please review:http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS6#head-c44e0ab6188ce37ff04eb13dbb34e3f61d08ddab.

Download and run the CentOS-6.3-x##_##-netinstall.iso, and eventually you’llhave an option to install from several sources, choose DVD, The installer looks forCentOS-6.3-x##_##-bin-DVD1.iso in the DVD. What a PITA, I don’t like the extrastep.

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bryan says:January 2, 2013 at 8:06 am

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I currently have 2 internal hard drives on my computer. One already runningwindows. In the installation could you select the hard disk in which CENTOS wouldbe installed?

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Matthew says:January 5, 2013 at 7:01 am

Hey thanks for this, definitely helpful. Any idea how I go about retrieving thecontents from the second dvd .iso? I think I need some of those packages inorder to install the drivers for my graphics card?

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Sanjay says:January 3, 2013 at 8:41 pm

Ravi,

Very succinct and clear. Thanks.

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clark kent says:January 5, 2013 at 9:20 am

very nice tutorial, can you help me how to configure in making virtual host? thanks

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Vivek says:January 5, 2013 at 7:51 pm

Just installed 6.3 32 bit using the bootable disks created using the 2 iso filesprovided for download on CentOS site.I have Two questions.1- How to configure Broadband connection? (I am having BSNL, India, modembased broadband connection that required user/pwd to connect through myland-line phone)2- What is the use of Disk 2 iso image that is provided?The installation got completed with the first disk itself and it never prompted fordisk 2 iso image.Thanks in advance.

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Ravi Saive says:January 7, 2013 at 12:49 pm

if your installation is completed then no need of 2nd disk. and aboutbroadband setup. please follow this artilce.

http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/open-source/21638-configuring-bsnl-dataone-broadband-linux.html

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syazwan says:January 6, 2013 at 9:34 pm

great tutorial, but I have problem on step 2…..If I click yes,discard any data…will itremove my data on the hard disk? I am planning for dual boot.

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YES! it will discard data on selected disk. If you’ve planned for dual boot makesure you must have empty drive for your centos installation.

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Jerry Billygoat says:January 8, 2013 at 9:18 pm

The installation is easy. However, I am installing in text mode. It never prompts forhostname, disk partition instructions, network setup, package selection (samba,ftp, apache, php, mysql, etc.) Do I now install individual packages after the initialinstall?

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Ravi Saive says:January 9, 2013 at 11:59 am

Yes, you can install individual packages after initial installation of OS viaonline or using cd-rom.

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Jerry Billygoat says:January 9, 2013 at 7:47 pm

I have CentOS 6.3 DVD 1 and 2. I believe all packages I need aresomewhere on the DVD’s. How do I go about installing them? Forexample, I need ssh, Samba, Bind, Apache, and more. Some of them I canget from their respective sites. But ssh is ususally part of the initialinstallation.

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Yes, you want you can install those packages using centos dvd.Please follow the below article on how to install packages usingcentos dvd.

http://www.tecmint.com/install-software-packages-via-yum-command-using-centos-65-installation-dvdcd/

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hi sir can you help me pls…i already install centos 6.2 and i already configure the

network by putting static ip address but still i can not connect to internet…

when i login as a root and typing links to browsing internet..still the messageappear host not found.

can you help me sir what are some steps to configure so that i can connect tointernet

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Have you added dns entries in /etc/resolve.conf file? if not, add the entries andtry to ping any host and see the results.

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hi sir thank you for your response…sir i already added entries in resolve.conf butstill i can not connect to internet.. even in local connection i cant ping the ipaddress that i put in centos server…sir what are those possibleconfiguration…thank you very much sir

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Ravi Saive says:January 11, 2013 at 11:23 am

Please follow the link below for setting up internet connection. if youhave questions pls buzz me here.

http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/rhel-sbs-en-4/ch-connect.html

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Rajeev says:January 18, 2013 at 5:31 pm

Hi,

I tried all the steps to install CentOS 6.3 on a desktop (with the default webserveroption selected) and i have added mysql server additionally. After installation iscomplete my desktop restarted and asked for logins. I typed ‘root’ and passwordbut it started showing the below line repeatedly instead of loging in.

[drm] nouveau 000:04:00:0: no native mode, forcing panel scaling[drm] nouveau 000:04:00:0: no native mode, forcing panel scaling[drm] nouveau 000:04:00:0: no native mode, forcing panel scaling[drm] nouveau 000:04:00:0: no native mode, forcing panel scaling

Can any one help me please. Thanks,

I used the same DVD and settings to install CentOS 6.3 on Oracle VM, it works fine.I was even able to run a web based application developed using Jboss & mysql onthe VM.

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Add the following to kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst file, will fix the

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problem.

drm_kms_helper.poll=0

or create a config file “modprobe.conf” under /etc/modprobe.d/ directory andadd the following line and save.

options drm_kms_helper poll=0

Restart the server.

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Rajeev says:January 18, 2013 at 6:41 pm

@ Ravi:

Thank you. It works. I have added drm_kms_helper.poll=0 to menu.lst

Thanks a lot.

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Good hear it worked. :)

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daljit says:January 23, 2013 at 5:11 pm

Greeting of the dayI was trying to install centos 6.3 through my usb on to the hard in wch i have 100gbfree space. other partitions contain window volumn. i was trying to install withoptions using free space then selecting my harddisk in install target devices it isshowing not have enough space for LVM requestplease tell what should i doi was also trying to install through by custom layout same situation was there

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Saad says:

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February 26, 2013 at 1:31 pm

This is happening might be because you have less memory space remainingfor your CentOS installation.

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Ravi says:January 27, 2013 at 11:26 am

I have windows 7 32 bit installed already and then I installed CentOS 64bit , when istart my pc every time i dont see CentOs in bootloader, by default windows getsstarted.

I dnt know the reason why i dnt se cenos in bootloader

Please help…

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fillipe says:February 1, 2013 at 5:21 pm

Hi,I’m trying to install centos 6.3 at a new pc in my lab, but the installation stop afterstep 1 and my screen gets black. Do you have any idea how i fix that problem?

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Ravi Saive says:February 1, 2013 at 6:53 pm

I think video graphic driver problem, from the grub select “Install system withbasic video driver” option and proceed installation and let me know whathappens next.

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Nada says:February 6, 2013 at 3:27 am

Hi,

I used the same version of CentOs to install it but i only get the command line afterinstalling (no graphic interface). Also during the installation i never got to see all

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the steps u screenshoted. Why ? Can you provide me an available link where todownload the same version as yours ? Thanks

PS : i did try to edit the CentOS-Media.repo file but it wont work at all

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The download links are already provided in the article. If you are looking forGUI then install GNOME or KDE. Use the following command to install any ofthe one.

# yum groupinstall "X Window System" "GNOME Desktop Environment"OR# yum groupinstall "X Window System" "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"

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Nada says:February 6, 2013 at 3:48 pm

Hi thanks for ur reply.I found out i cant install it with the GUI, it says i dont have enough ram todo so.

I did type those commands but it seems i dont have an internetconnection because i get this error :

pycurl error 6 – couldn’t resolve host ‘mirrorlist.centos.org’

I did try to edit the repo.conf, it didnt help to solve the internet problem.

Right now im installing the 5.9 version and it seems to work fine (GUI)

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todd says:February 6, 2013 at 8:15 pm

Nada, I ran into the same issue in a VM. I gave the VM 512MB bydefault, but the installer requires minimal 652MB ram on the guestin order to do GUI install. I adjusted the VM with this minimum req ,reran the install and was able to install via GUI.

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February 6, 2013 at 9:32 pm

Oh really ?! thanks for sharing this with me. I’ll definetly trythis tonight and let u know !

Nada says:February 7, 2013 at 12:30 am

Well Todd i must say thank you so much ! I finally got to installCentOS 6.3 with GUI ^^ Thanks again for ur tip !

S V Prasad says:February 7, 2013 at 5:07 pm

I installed centos 6.3 on a Lenovo H525s core i5 3GHz, 4GB RAM and 500 GB Win8 Desktop by creating 146 GB partition. The bios supports UEFI. After installationwhen I restart the system it always goes to windows only. The GRUB boot loader isnot able to see the linux part. When I searched the forums many are saying it is dueto MBR / GPT / UEFI incombatibility. If that is the case then I may have to addGRUB 2 support. Where can I get GRUB 2 inclded centos 6.3 distribution. Mysecond query is since i am not able to boot into Linux directly I used rescue modeand am able to get into linux command mode. From there if I trype startx it goesinto GUI mode but my keyboard and mouse hangs. Could any one suggest me stepsto fix any of these issues. Thanks a lot for any help.

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Nagendra says:February 25, 2013 at 7:52 pm

I got the similar problem. I could not see the option to go to Centos. Did youfind the solution. If so may you post here for me please?

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S V Prasad says:February 26, 2013 at 2:52 am

Short answer – Solution for Lenono desktop could not be found. Nosuccess yet. Long answer – Try the following ifyou have time:

1. There is a Centos 6.3 minimal install with Grub2 support at least thatis what the website mentioned. This supports few hardware platforms. If

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you could download and install and if that works for your platform thenyou should be fine. It did not work for my HW platform.

2. GRUB2 source code is available for download. If you could compile andintegrate with Centos 3 it might work. Again it did not work for me.

3. Create three partitions. One with Windows, another one with Centos6.3 and third one (may be small one) with Fedora latest release (whichalready has support for Grub2). If using Fedora your system is able toaccept the hardware and if you could see boot option then you can modifyby it to point to centos as well. This I did not have time to checkcompletely. You can try and see for your self.

4. Last option is wait for Centos 6.4 with Grub2 full support. I do notknow when.

Sorry I could not be of much help.

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Manoj says:February 10, 2013 at 6:51 pm

i downloaded CentOS-6.3-x86_64-bin-DVD1to2 and i dont get the GUI! is it aminimal? how do i download the ‘oftware Development Workstation’, is there one?

Thank you, i was glad to find some screenshots!

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Akshay bhaiji says:February 15, 2013 at 9:08 am

Hi,How Can I install Updates & 3rd party tools (VLc) Without InternetConnction….PLZ Guide

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No, you can’t install updates or any third party packages without internetconnection. You must have connected to internet in order to download updatesor packages.

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Nagaraju J P says:February 15, 2013 at 1:40 pm

Nice guide, thanks.

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Yogesh Mandge says:February 25, 2013 at 11:09 pm

Hello I Know It’s My Second Comment on Same Post But I’m Totally Confused,

I want To Install Centos But Have a Serious Question “Will I Loose my All Data inInstallation”

If Yes Then Please Tell Me Some Method to Protect it – Approx Size of Data is100GB.

Thanks Your Support is Appreciated

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You mean, you have dual boot environment where you like to install CentOSwith windows. If yes, then first allocate a drive with free space and then installthe centos on that free space drive.

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Yogesh Mandge says:February 26, 2013 at 5:11 pm

No Ravi I want to Completely Remove Windows And Install CentOS IsThere Anyway to Save my Data.

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No, you will not loose any data, if you install the centos in windows

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drive after removing existing windows.

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Balaji Sridhar says:April 6, 2013 at 2:32 pm

Dear Ravi,

We require to install the Cent OS 6.3 i386 in VMware Env. Incmd line the installation is completed. I can only see very lessfiles in /etc. How to install the 2nd DVD Cent OS. Please advice.

Thanks in advance,

Balaji

Ravi Saive says:April 6, 2013 at 5:35 pm

firstly, must you have selected minimal packages duringinstallation, so you get less files in /etc. If you want to installother packages you can use yum command to install it. If younot aware of yum, you can take look at the yum guide.

vamsi says:March 5, 2013 at 1:52 pm

can u please explain the differences between1.use all space2.replace existing linux system3.shrink current system4.use free space5.create custom layout

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Carlos Vicente says:March 10, 2013 at 5:39 pm

What should I do to install a wireless network on my Centos 6.3 S.O. ? RT3070 wasrecognized but there’s no wlan0 when I type $iwconfig …

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Tanos says:April 22, 2013 at 3:49 pm

Thank you Ravi. It helped me to setup my site :-)

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jenko says:June 11, 2013 at 10:29 pm

Hey thanks for this tutorial. Will it apply for version 6? The part the confused me alittle was the ‘wired tab’. I’m not sure if we need that. We need our set up to beused to format hard drives with Linux for Digital Cinema distribution and it willhave a a CRU dock attached with a eSata connection to be used as a network drive.It’s a new machine and already has 7 32bit installed on it. Should we keep that on aparition? It will not be connected to the internet, only by the network to my DCPcreation machine. We will be loading, or loading content to or from a hard drive inthe CRU slot. What’s you opinion on how we should install?

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John says:June 22, 2013 at 9:33 am

When installing CentOS on a Vitual Machine, do i need to do the partitioning justthe usual way like we partition on the physical machine?

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Ravi Saive says:June 24, 2013 at 3:08 pm

Yes! same way like we do on the physical machine.

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prince says:July 2, 2013 at 7:05 am

Helpful but Im doing the “minimal” install. I want a feeper understanding ofCentOS so I can pass Linux certifications.

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Anushka says:July 4, 2013 at 2:10 pm

Very useful… Thanking you sir,

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Naveen kathait says:July 7, 2013 at 7:37 pm

i think the website is doing a great job. thanks</a

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Jacinto says:July 10, 2013 at 11:46 pm

Hi

I was wondering if any one can let me know why I cant download CentOS 6.3 64dvd ISO.When I click the link It said ERRO and there is only a blank page.

Thank you

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Ravi Saive says:July 11, 2013 at 8:38 am

Sorry, the CentOS 6.3 download links were outdated and removed by CentOSteam, due to new release of CentOS 6.4. I added new download links, pleasecheck.

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nasir says:July 17, 2013 at 11:43 pm

I have xenserver 6.1 and installing centos 6.4 I can not get the gui on xencenterI can connect through vnc but no console on xencenterswitch to graphical console grayed out

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rishi says:July 31, 2013 at 9:42 am

my web server not suppert desktop why :(( giveing error

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Ravi Saive says:August 1, 2013 at 5:45 pm

How much RAM you have?

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Sam T. says:August 2, 2013 at 6:41 am

I am trying to download centos 6.3 from mirror web sites. However the directory isempty and it refers to the latest version 6 which is 6.4. Is version 6.3 deprecatedand it is encouraged to use version 6.4 ? I am new to centos and I was a bitsurprised that point releases are deprecated so fast.

Here is a web site example:http://mirror.stanford.edu/yum/pub/centos/6.3/

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Ravi Saive says:August 2, 2013 at 8:36 am

Sam, may be that mirror outdated, we already provided download links forcentos 6.3 ISO in the article. Please follow those links to download.

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Sam T. says:August 3, 2013 at 12:31 am

Ravi, I did check a couple of other sites and they were all the same.Thanks for the response and you folks have a helpful site.

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Mak K. says:September 9, 2013 at 12:12 pm

I installed CentOS 6.4 x86_64. Installed apache over it. Provided fixed ip to themachine but the apache website is not accessible over LAN, is am I missingsomething?

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Narad Shrestha says:September 9, 2013 at 6:38 pm

Check firewall setting. If not allow in iptables. Verify doing telnet on port 80.

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Usman says:September 23, 2013 at 3:05 am

I installed 6.4 in my desktop. when i start my PC after boot menu i lost my display.

Please tell me what i do?

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Narad Shrestha says:September 23, 2013 at 11:05 am

What is amount of Memory given for CentOS

Try given atleast 1GB of RAM

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faizu says:October 1, 2013 at 8:33 pm

done upto step 22, after reboot followingblack screen comes , says to login, i m able to root login,,help to get rid of black screen

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Ravi Saive says:October 2, 2013 at 12:15 am

How much RAM you have?

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venkatesh karnasula says:October 3, 2013 at 10:24 pm

here installing centos there default selection is “minimal” and this screen shotshown select a web server:” please remember ,that no need to select “minimal” r“web server”here we have to select “DESKTOP” … that only select for gui coming on centosotherwise command mode only comming … thanking u ..

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irshad says:October 19, 2013 at 10:51 pm

Till snapshot 22 my installation was correct. But dint get the login screen as shownin the snapshots. I tried ssh -X and startx commands but dint work.

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annonimous says:November 15, 2013 at 3:06 pm

please help me.. my work is gone.. this centos is bullshit!!!

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Ravi Saive says:November 15, 2013 at 7:15 pm

What kind of help you looking for, can you describe here.

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nagapavan says:November 20, 2013 at 2:42 pm

i have windows8 on my laptop and i have installed centos in my laptop along withwindow8 but during my boot up it is not showing centos option please give tell me

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the solution

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Chandramouli says:November 24, 2013 at 1:01 pm

Thank you so much. Now, I have installed CentOS 6.4 successfully in my machinewith dual boot.

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Ben says:January 9, 2014 at 5:00 am

I am not getting the screen from #19 to customize the install when using a i386live CD or live DVD.

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Abado Jack Mtulla says:March 3, 2014 at 8:59 pm

After reading this installation guide,am now thinking of moving away from UbuntuDesktop to CentOS as my primary OS.

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Amir Mahjouri says:March 11, 2014 at 5:43 pm

Dear sirs,thanks very nice for your tutorial ;But I want to know Difference oracle linux with centos.and how clustering-system on linux centos?

thank you very much

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harish says:April 22, 2014 at 11:36 pm

hi guys,i am very much interested to learn the linux, so currently i’m using Centos flavourin linux while practising the Centos i’m getting lot of doubts in my dialy practicalscenario, so here my doubt is that when i’m creating partitions automatically it’s

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taking 4 partitions . so could anyone please explain why its taking 4 partitionswhen i’m creating only one ???

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Kim says:May 7, 2014 at 6:34 pm

Very nice tutorial :) Thanks

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Sandeep says:May 12, 2014 at 1:13 pm

Hi

i am using windows 8 with VMware 6 and installed centos 6.4 with 768 MBmemory.

i am very new to Linux…but successfully installed CentOS.I have following doubts please clarify1) when i boot my centOS i am just getting Command line with Username andpassword. i can log in no problem with that. How can i get a GUI display???2) now on this CentOS i want to install asterisk 3.0 How can i acheive that ?? i haveAsterisk setup already downloaded in ISO image…Please guide

Regards

Sandeep

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Ravi Saive says:May 12, 2014 at 6:18 pm

For your first point, run the following command to get GUI.

# init 5

For second point, search asterisk article using our search form at the top rightcorner.

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