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JamesC. Joined: Jun 30, 2008 Posts: 5 Other Topics	Posted Jul 01, 2008 at 6:02:10 PM Subject: How to Download and install CentOS? I have been wanting to run linux for a while but I am having problems how to download linux and burn it to the cd. Can somebody give me a way more descriptive way to download and install linux. Please give me example or links. I am new with linux I don't know nothing about it or what files in the mirror to download. I really need alot of help but once I get it started I'm sure I can figure out the rest. Thanks alot.
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chart3399 Joined Jun 17, 2008 Posts: 73 Other Topics	Posted: Jul 01, 2008 6:43:52 PM Subject: How to Download and install CentOS? Not to be rude, but try google as you are asking for a multiple step solution to your problem in a forum. http://www.google.com/search?q=install+centos
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JamesC. Joined Jun 30, 2008 Posts: 5 Other Topics	Posted: Jul 01, 2008 6:47:46 PM Subject: How to Download and install CentOS? I have that is why I need help from someone how know what they are doing.
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Shashank Sharma Joined Jan 01, 1970 Posts: 1546 Location:New Delhi, India Other Topics	Posted: Jul 04, 2008 11:26:31 AM Subject: How to Download and install CentOS? James, please don't double- or cross-post on the forums. It's against the rules. To answer your question, download the ISO file. If you have a 64 bit machine, download the x86_64 file or go for i386. http://wiki.centos.org/Download If you are familiar with Torrents, you can either download from a torrent or directly download the ISO files. This link provides torrent as well as the ISO files: http://centos.candishosting.com.cn/5.2/isos/i386/ That link is of a mirror in China and provides i386, you can select any mirror you want. Also, if you download CDs, you'd have to download 6 CDs and burn each, or you can just download the DVD iso. Once you've got the ISO file, you need to burn it. Assuming you'd burn the ISO from a Windows machine, you'd probably use Nero or some similar CD writing software. When burning the ISO image, make sure you use the "burn image to disk option". This is important. ISO image is a compressed archive and you should burn it by selecting the "burn image to disk" option. You can't just copy the ISO file and burn it like you burn a data disk. Once you've burned the ISO image, restart your computer, change the BIOS boot order such that your CD/DVD drive is read before the hard disk and then you can install from the disk. Personally, I recommend you try either Fedora, Mandriva, Ubuntu or OpenSUSE. Centos is for the server and so, I wouldn't recommend it to someone just starting with Linux. Cheers! Coauthor of Beginning Fedora: From Novice to Professional published by Apress. Please follow the Forum Guidelines
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MarkosJal Joined Aug 18, 2008 Posts: 2 Other Topics	Posted: Aug 18, 2008 3:11:40 AM Subject: How to Download and install CentOS? I STRONGLY DISAGREE As a person still new to linux, who has battelled with many installations..... Over the last few years, I have attempted several installations of various flavors of linux, and was always greeted with some failure along the way. I recently plugged in an old hard disk into an old CPU just to see what was on it, I FELL IN LOVE WITH CENT OS. It seems my nephew had installed it and did not use it removed the drive and went to ubuntu. I later did a clean install oif CentOS 4.6 and it was the MOST TROUBLE FREE OF ANY LINUX INSTALLATION I HAD EVER DONE. The only ones that have ever given me a working OS were CentOS 4.6 and Ubuntu 6.X. My experience is that CentOS 4.6 is the ULTIMATE for putting on any old system you have around and even performed well on a 300 Mhz Machine, where Ubuntu 6.X was a complete dog and did not recognize all of the hardware. Ubuntu by default installs "Xtra Prettys" , I guess to make the Windows XP user feel more at home and THEY ARE RESOURCE HOGS. My recommendation is FOR CentOS over any other , and I feel that 5 May not be necessary on an older machine, so go with 4.6 Download the 4 ISOs from any of the mirrors. ftp://mirror.atlantic.net/pub/centos/4.6/isos/i386/ or http://ftp.usf.edu/pub/centos/4.6/isos/i386/ Burn them to CDs Start the machine from CD 1 and you are good to go [Modified by: MarkosJal on August 18, 2008 03:13 AM]
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Shashank Sharma Joined Jan 01, 1970 Posts: 1546 Location:New Delhi, India Other Topics	Posted: Aug 18, 2008 6:28:41 AM Subject: How to Download and install CentOS? MarkosJal, appreciate your input, and I'm not trying to argue, but there are other distros specifically designed to work with older hardware. This is nothing to take away from CentOS, I love the project anyway, but just thought I'd mention that distros like DSL and Puppy and others work great with very little RAM and on really old machines. Coauthor of Beginning Fedora: From Novice to Professional published by Apress. Please follow the Forum Guidelines
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MarkosJal Joined Aug 18, 2008 Posts: 2 Other Topics	Posted: Aug 18, 2008 7:35:10 AM Subject: How to Download and install CentOS? I will say that Ubuntu is not one of those. Also CentOS is complete and the YUM installers make some add ins very easy to install for new users, and the 4 install CDs provide a very complete install that works VERY well. Yes there are others and they do not recognize hardware and you manually install many dependencies when you want to do something with it. For a new user those compact installs are a huge problem. The need for the OS does not end at the OS , the applications that you use are the key , and they seem very easy to install, as many are included in the original installation (except for a good working Hamachi with GUI). [Modified by: MarkosJal on August 18, 2008 07:39 AM]
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Shashank Sharma Joined Jan 01, 1970 Posts: 1546 Location:New Delhi, India Other Topics	Posted: Aug 18, 2008 11:19:25 AM Subject: How to Download and install CentOS? The thing about hardware recognition is, some distros do it better than others. Aside from that, I always recommend new users to switch distros from time to time. That way, you're not alienating yourself from the special features and applications unique to any one distro. Cheers! Coauthor of Beginning Fedora: From Novice to Professional published by Apress. Please follow the Forum Guidelines
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