when you are not fimiliar with Linux and hear its name, the first pictures that comes in your mind is something scary like this
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I know that lots of us are completely fine with installing and using different distribution of Linux, but there are always some people who are not. They are categorized in two groups:
1. The ones that are already on Steemit(who can find this post useful)
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Let’s start then !
Installing Linux
(I chose CentOS6.5, if anyone has any favorite distribution and needs tutorial, just let me know)
1. You need the source which you can download latest version here and the older ones here
2. Burn o on DVD(Physical Machine) or set the Virtual Machine’s DVD path to the location of your ISO file, note that I am going to install in on a VMware (but even on physical servers process is the same
3. When you power on machine (it has to be set to rad from CD/DVD and burned/ISO should be in the drive), you will see some options as follow, go head and choose ‘install or upgrade an existing system’
In the next on it is going to ask you if you like to check your media (if you are sure your system is fine or you are installing it on a VM just skip it
Now you have to choose couple of options like your language , your keyboard language and type and storage type(choose basic if you are not sure which one is good for you), now it is going to warn you about making sure that your hard drive does not contain any valuable data(make sure and then do the right thing)
Now choose a name for your machine and on the left bottom click configure Network
Choose your interface, select edit and check ‘Connect automatically’ (it ups your Interface during startup process)
Now you could choose your country, time zone, and password (if it is not complex enough you will get a warning, just click on ‘use it anyway’ if you don’t like to change your password).
Next it is going to ask you about type of installation, if you are working on a VM or you don’t have anything on your hard drive use the first option(Use All Space), other options are pretty clear too(they have detailed descriptions), also you can check ‘Review and modify partitioning layout’ if you like to change system’s partitions(there is also ‘Encrypt System’ option which is going to make your system slower)
if you check ‘Review and modify partitioning layout’ option you will see following which is letting you to change the partitions of your drive, change the size of your partition, swap,etc.. Under the LVM volume group section
On the boot loader option just click next (it is going to create the boot loader on your drive).
Now you have to choose what you exactly want from this OS
Desktop
Minimal desktop
Minimal
Etc…
I myself always choose minimal, and on the bottom select ‘customize now’ (this way I go through all packages and select the ones that I need), but if you are new to Linux environment just go with Desktop mode (which is pretty much like windows and Mac), this way you can have both Linux power/performance and you can also have a friendly UI.
You are done, just wait till the packages are installed and you will be asked to reboot your OS
After rebooting your OS, you have can set a username (this user is not going to be sudoer and is is not able to execute commands as root). It is recommended that you never login with root user itself unless you have to. In date and time section you can set the NTP server or set date/time manually
Kdump
Depending on your machine resources you can set Kdump for troubleshooting etc…note that it will take some resources.
now you can have your own Linux server
There is a very short video where you can check CentOS 6.5 environment and see whether you like it or not.
https://youtu.be/C6UCMfaY4rg
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