How to install a Linux system

Linux is free. In fact, free here only means that the Linux kernel is free. Many Linux versions have been produced based on the Linux kernel. To put it simply, a Linux distribution is a package that packages the Linux kernel and application software. The more well-known distributions are: Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS, Debain, Fedora, SuSE, OpenSUSE, TurboLinux, BluePoint, RedFlag, Xterm, SlackWare, etc.

The most commonly used ones are Redhat and CentOS. The following describes the installation of CentOS .

1. Enter the BIOS system to set the computer to boot from the CD. Press F10 to save and exit.

2. Insert the Linux system installation CD and restart the computer. Enter the welcome interface of the CD. You can directly press Enter to install graphically (you can also enter linux text and press Enter to install on the command line).

3. After pressing Enter, a dialog box will pop up asking you whether you want to verify the disc. Click "skip" and press Enter.

4. Enter the installation wizard interface and click "Next" directly

5. Enter the language selection interface, where you can choose according to your needs and preferences. Click "Next"

6. Keyboard selection, English and American keyboards are selected by default. Click "NEXT"

7. A partition warning message pops up, "Initializing the disk will lose previous data." Click "YES", and then click "Next".

8. The system partitions the disk by default (you can partition it yourself according to your own needs). I don’t need other partitions here, just click "Next".

9. Prompt system installation information. (Tick the box in front of

Use a boot loader password, which means adding a password to the boot loader, in order to prevent someone from entering single-user mode through the CD to change the root password) There is no check here, just click "Next"

10. The configuration network card information pops up. You can now customize the IP of the network card and configure the host name. The default is obtained through DHCP. You can also click manually to customize a host name, such as mail.example.com. If neither of these methods is configured, Linux will configure a universal host name for you, that is, localhost.localdomain. The remaining ones do not need to be configured and are left blank by default. Click "Next".

11. Set the time zone and select our time zone Asia/Shanghai. Click "Next".

12.Set ROOT account information. Click "Next".

13. Install software packages here according to your needs or preferences. To customize the installation, you need to click "customize now" and then "NEXT" below.

14. On the right side of the pop-up option "Desktop Environments", remove the check mark in front of GNOME. This is the installation package of the graphical interface. If you do not remove this check, the graphical interface will be installed.

15. Move the cursor to "Applications" and select the required package.

16. In the same way, move the cursor to "Development", "Servers", etc. to select your own software package. Then click "Next".

17. The system will start the installation. And display the installation progress bar.

18. After the installation is completed, the prompt message as shown below will pop up. Click "Reboot". The system starts to restart. At this point the system installation has been completed.

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