Installasi Linux Centos

Preparation

Before installation you should have pick the DVD or CD CentOS CentOS

Set the boot device priority in your bios to boot prioritynya a CD-ROM or DVD.

Stages of Installation

Step 1: Preparation of Media Boot.

Insert the DVD or CD 1 CentOS 5.3 CentOS 5.3 and let the computer do the boot from CD or DVD drive. After the boot process is complete it will appear like this. To perform the installation in graphical mode, you can simply press the [Enter].

Step 2: Perform Testing the Installation Media.

If you want to test your installation media first before doing the installation process you can press ok, but this process will take quite a long time. If you believe that your installation media is still in good working order you should press the [Skip] to skip this process.

Step 3: Starting the Installation Process.

At this stage of the installation system will display the first page of the CentOS installation phase, click Next to continue next keproses.

Step 4: Selection of Language.

At this stage you will select the language used during the installation process, if it is the language click the Next button to proceed to the next process.

Step 5: Selection of Keyboard.

At this stage you will choose the keyboard layout, you should choose us layout, then click the Next button to start the next process.

Step 6: Selection of Mouse.

Choose the appropriate type of mouse. Note the type of interface that is used if serial, PS / 2 or USB. Genirc should select a type to be compatible with all mice in the market. When finished selecting a mouse click Next.

Step 7: Select the Upgrade or Install.

The installation program will automatically detect if the CentOS Linux already installed. At this stage choose to install Linx CentOS install, then click the Next button

Step 8: Select the Setup Partition.

There are four types of setup partitions to choose from:

Remove all partitions on disk: Creating a new partition automatically by deleting or formatting all partitions that have been there before.

Remove linux partitions on disk: Partition automatically to remove all existing Linux partitions on your disk.

Used all free space: Creating partitions automatically by using all the available empty partition on the disk.

Manually Partitions: Create your own partitions manually.

It is advisable to choose a fourth option to be able to learn to create its own partition and choose the option that we can minimize data loss due to incorrect partition.

Step 9: Create Partition.

On Linux there are two types of partitions:

SWAP partition that serves as virtual memory. Minimum size of 32 MB. Greater than the recommended swap partition is twice the amount of memory on the computer terpadsan. If your computer memory is 1 GB or less. For example if your computer is attached to the memory of 1 GB then make a swap partition of 2 GB.

NATIVE partition. Is a partition for the Linux system itself. The number of native partitions can be more than one (root partition) or more depending on each user.

To create a partition follow these steps:

Create a swap partition of 2 times the memory installed, by the way:

Click the New button. This will bring up a window to create a partition.

Mount point. Leave blank

File System Type. Select the swap.

Allowable drives, contains a list of the installed hard drive

Size (MB). Enter the appropriate large swap previously described.

Additional Size Options. Choose a fixed size.

Force to be a primary partition, do not need to be marked.

Check for a bad blocks, if you mark it at the time of the format, the damaged block will be marked so as not to be used in the future.

Click the OK button.

Create a root partition "/" in the following way:

Click the New button. This will bring up a window to create a partition.

Mount point. Select "/"

File System Type. Select ext3.

Allowable drives, contains a list of the installed hard drive

Size (MB). Enter the root of the partition in accordance with the existing space.

Additional Size Options. Choose a fixed size.

Force to be a primary partition, do not need to be marked.

Check for a bad blocks, if you mark it at the time of the format, the damaged block will be marked so as not to be used in the future.

Click the OK button.

Step 10: Configure the Boot Loader.

Boot loader is the first program to be run when the computer starts up. The installation program provides two boot loader program that is GRUB and LILO. GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader), the default boot loader, while the alternative is LILO stands for LInux LOader.