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CentOS 6.3 Step by Step Installation Guide with Screenshots
CentOS 6.3 Step by Step Installation Guide with Screenshots
CentOS 6.3 Step by Step Graphical Installation Guide
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 data button to Continue.
CentOS 6.3 Storage Device Warning
8. Give a Hostname to the server and click on Configure Network button if you want 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 Method and select Manual in drop down. Click on Add tab to fill address box with IP Address, Netmask, Gateway and DNS Server. Here I’m using IP Address 192.168.1.6 and DNS Server is 4.2.2.2 for demo. This IP Address may vary in your 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 and click 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
Section Post CentOS Configuration
Welcome
Instructions:
Click the Forward Button
License Information
Instructions:
Click "Yes, I agree to the License Agreement"
Click the Forward Button
Create User
Instructions:
Username: student
Do not change "student", since this account is required for future labs.
Full Name: Security Student
Replace Security Student with your actual full name.
e.g., John Gray
Password: <Supply A Strong Password>
Confirm: <Re-Enter the previous Password>
Click the Forward Button
Note(FYI):
At least 8 characters
Alpha-Numeric
Uppercase and Lowercase
Symbols (!@#$%^&*, etc)
Date and Time
Instructions:
Adjust the Date and Time and click the Forward Button
Kdump (Part 1)
Note(FYI):
CentOS 6 requires 4 GB of RAM. Since, we only reserved 1 GB of memory for this virtual machine, you will receive and error message "Insufficient memory to auto-enable kdump".
Instructions:
Click the OK Button in the Insufficient memory warning window.
Kdump (Part 2)
Note(FYI):
After clicking the Finish Button your machine will immediately reboot
Instructions:
Click the Finish Button
Section 6. Install VMware Tools
Login to CentOS
Note(FYI):
Until you click the user, in this case Security Student, the Password field will not be displayed.
Instructions:
Click on Security Student
This will display the password text box.
Supply its' password
Click the Log In Button
23. Welcome to CentOS 6.3 Login Screen.
CentOS 6.3 Login Screen
24. CentOS 6.3 Desktop Screen.
CentOS 6.3 Desktop Screen
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VM tools Install
# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/vmware.repo
[vmware-tools]
name=VMware Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/latest/rhel6/$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-RSA-KEY.pub
yum install vmware-tools-esx-nox
yum update vmware-tools-esx-nox
chkconfig --add vmware-tools
chkconfig vmware-tools on
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools start
*****Removing VMware Tools
yum remove vmware-tools-esx-nox
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Right-click the RHEL 6 virtual machine in vSphere Client, then select Guest > Install/Upgrade VMware Tools.
2
Log in to the virtual machine and mount the CD-ROM to access the VMware Tools installation package.
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mkdir /tmp/vmtools
cd /tmp/vmtools
3
Run the tar xf command to extract the VMware Tools package tar file.
tar xf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz
4
Make vmware-tools-distrib your working directory, and run the vmware-install.pl script.
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
Press Enter to finish the installation.
5
Remove the vmtools temporary (temp) file that is created as an artifact of the installation process.
rm -rf /tmp/vmtools
6
Shut down virtual machine.
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