CentOS 6.10 Installation Guide with Screenshots

CentOS is a widely used Linux distribution in the Enterprise Linux family, because of many reasons, including being stable and manageable. This CentOS 6.10 release is based on the upstream release Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 comes with bug fixes, new functionalities & updates.

It’s highly recommended to go through release notes as well as the upstream technical notes about the changes before an installation or up-gradation.

Download CentOS 6.10 DVD ISO’s

CentOS 6.10 Torrent files for the DVD‘s are available at:

  1. CentOS-6.10-i386-bin-DVD1to2.torrent [32-bit]
  2. CentOS-6.10-x86_64-bin-DVD1to2.torrent [64-bit]

Upgrade CentOS 6.x to CentOS 6.10

CentOS Linux is created to automatically upgrade to a new major version (CentOS 6.10) by running the following command that will upgrade your system seamlessly from any earlier CentOS Linux 6.x release to 6.10.

# yum udpate

We strongly recommend you to perform a fresh installation rather than upgrading from other major CentOS versions.

In this article, we will show how to install a fresh CentOS 6.10 using the DVD ISO image, with a graphical user interface (GUI) or desktop environment by default.

CentOS 6.10 Installation Guide

1. First start by downloading the CentOS 6.10 DVD ISO and then burn it to a DVD or create a bootable USB stick using LiveUSB Creator called Rufus, Unetbootin or terminal based Bootiso.

2. Next, boot your computer using the bootable USB or CD, press any key to access the Grub menu, then select Install and click Enter.

CentOS 6.10 Install Grub Menu
CentOS 6.10 Install Grub Menu

3. After all services and start scripts have been started, the CentOS Graphical Installer will be launched, as shown in the following screenshot. Click on Next to proceed.

CentOS 6.10 Installer
CentOS 6.10 Installer

4. Choose the installation language you wish to use, and click on Next.

CentOS 6.10 Installation Language
CentOS 6.10 Installation Language

5. Choose the keyboard layout you wish to use and click on Next.

CentOS 6.10 Keyboard Layout
CentOS 6.10 Keyboard Layout

6. Choose the type of storage devices (basic or specialized) to be used for the installation and click Next.

CentOS 6.10 Installation Storage Device
CentOS 6.10 Installation Storage Device

7. Next, select the option to clear data on the storage disk by selecting Yes, discard any data and click Next.

CentOS 6.10 Storage Device Warning
CentOS 6.10 Storage Device Warning

8. Now set the Hostname and click Next.

Set CentOS 6.10 Hostname
Set CentOS 6.10 Hostname

9. Set the Timezone for your location and click Next to proceed.

Set CentOS 6.10 Timezone
Set CentOS 6.10 Timezone

10. Afterwards, set the root user password and confirm it and click Next to continue.

Set CentOS 6.10 Root Password
Set CentOS 6.10 Root Password

11. Next, you need to define the type of installation you want. Read the descriptions of the options carefully and select the appropriate one. If you want to use the whole disk space, choose Use All Space, but to perform a custom installation, choose Create Custom Layout.

Select CentOS 6.10 Installation Type
Select CentOS 6.10 Installation Type

12. The installer will review and modify partition layout. You can select a device to edit or delete, but if everything is ok, click Next.

CentOS 6.10 Device Partition Summary
CentOS 6.10 Device Partition Summary
CentOS 6.10 Disk Formatting
CentOS 6.10 Disk Formatting

13. Then permit the installer to apply the recent setup to disk by selecting Write changes to disk and then click Next to proceed.

CentOS 6.10 Disk Write Changes
CentOS 6.10 Disk Write Changes

14. Now tell the installer to install the boot loader, (remember you can specify a different device other than the default selected), and click Next to start actual installation of files (copy of ISO image to disk).

CentOS 6.10 Boot Loader
CentOS 6.10 Boot Loader

15. When the installation is complete, click on Close to reboot the system.

CentOS 6.10 Installation Complete
CentOS 6.10 Installation Complete

16. After rebooting and starting all services, you will land at the Welcome screen, click on Forward to continue.

CentOS 6.10 Welcome
CentOS 6.10 Welcome

17. Agree to the CentOS License Agreement and click on Forward.

CentOS 6.10 License Agreement
CentOS 6.10 License Agreement

18. Now create an additional user, enter the username, full name and set for it a password and confirm the password and click Forward to proceed.

CentOS 6.10 User Account
CentOS 6.10 User Account

19. Next, set the Date and Time for your system. It is recommend to synchronize data and time over network. Once your are done, click Forward.

CentOS 6.10 Date and Time
CentOS 6.10 Date and Time

20. Now configure Kdump and click on Finish.

CentOS 6.10 kdump
CentOS 6.10 kdump

21. Finally, log into your new CentOS 6.10 system as shown.

CentOS 6.10 Login
CentOS 6.10 Login
CentOS 6.10 Desktop
CentOS 6.10 Desktop

Congratulations! You have successfully installed CentOS 6.10 operating system on your computer. If you have any questions or thoughts to share, use the feedback from below to reach us.

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41 Comments

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    • @Dupa,

      I understand your concerns, but CentOS 6 still used by many big companies as compared to CentOS 7. I know CentOS 6 will be end in November 30th 2020, so we have two more years to use this version.

      Reply
  1. what if i’m using flash drive as my installer and after I click reboot, it will be closed and the result after I unmount is CLI.
    I want a GUI.
    What will I do?

    Reply
  2. Sir,

    Please post a tutorial regarding how to Dual Boot CentOS 6.x onwards with Windows 7.

    I have seen many posts but not getting concrete explaination.

    TIA!!

    Reply
  3. Hello,

    I have installed my radius server on centos 6.4 i386 and now I want to upgrade it to centos 6.5 x86_64.

    How can I proced?

    Reply
  4. After installing and rebooting CentOS-6.5-x86_64-LiveCD on Virtual box iam not getting welcome wizard screen ,it again comes to login page .My Base Machine is using win7 64 bit os
    Help me out

    Reply
  5. Hi Ashwin,

    I have experienced the same thing and was able to fix it. I’ve tried reinstalling centos 6.5 and from the package selection, I have customized it and selected X Window System and some desktop packages and it worked. You can also fix it by installing those packages from your existing centos 6.5 system. Provided that you have a local repository, just execute this command

    yum -y groupinstall “Desktop” “X Window System”

    Reply
  6. I had installed Centos 6.5 on an IBM xSeries server. Centos was installed successfully. While booting I noticed that it doesn’t go to desktop GUI or text-interface. It stops going ahead right after the three bars reach “Centos 6.5” at the bottom. Im able to access centos from Putty and work on it. But I would love to work on the server directly rather than from putty.
    What might have went wrong?? :(

    Reply
  7. If it helps, I had selected “Use all space” option for formatting the disk. The machine I am using is lenovo Thinkcentre M92. Appreciate if anyone could help me out.

    Thanks
    Jack

    Reply
    • HI Jack,

      This is the exact problem I had faced. I had looked around. But looks like, this issue is common among the Lenovo Thinkcentres. I am also using the same M92 edition. As I went back to 6.3. Though 6.3 supports both EFI and legacy boot, by default, 6.3 applies legacy bootloader. And this helped me to carry on. I could not install 6.5 anyway.

      Have you fixed the issue.

      Thanks
      Guru

      Reply
  8. Hi,

    The guide you have given seems to be done on a VM environment. When I had tried installing Cent OS 6.5 on my home machine, it asked me to create a EFI System partition along with /boot. Without EFI System partition, it wont let me to proceed through. After successful installation, the system never booted. Just throws, “No Operating System Found” error. Could you help me out.

    Thanks
    Jack

    Reply
  9. Hello,
    I’m trying to install CentOS 6.5 i386 minimal onto a Panasonic CF-29
    Specs:
    Windows XP Professional 32-bit SP3
    Intel Pentium M i855GM
    1GB RAM
    Matsushita Electric Industrial CF29-1 Mobo

    When I click install though this is the error I get:
    Loading vmlinuz…..
    Loading initrd.img…..ready.
    This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU:
    pae
    Unable to boot – please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU.

    I’ve gone through dozens of different web forums, but all of them either use a 64-bit system, solution failed, or are for windows virtual box. I had the same issue with the 32 bit version of Ubuntu 14.04.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Reply
  10. When using CentOS-6.5-x86_64-LiveDVD.torrent, I never saw the install screen that is shown above – it just showed “Autologin” and went to the desktop. From there there was a link to install to hard drive, so I chose that to do the install.

    And I never saw step 18. where you chose “Basic Server” above to install additional software.

    Should I have used another installation CD or DVD?

    Reply
  11. Hi guyz,just did a full installation on my desktop ,got everything up and running except my second monitor.Does centos 6.5 support dual monitor?

    I have NVIDIA Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400 GS] video card .
    I have installed the corresponding driver for this card but still ,second monitor not working .!

    Any tips or links to get this resolve ?

    Reply
  12. Hi,

    This installation document is good with default partition, but how about manual partition installation, please guide me.

    Reply
  13. I want to install local mail server like postmaster in windows. Which software is best for cent os. I need equivivalant product against ms exchange and easy to use for system admin

    Reply
    • You need to install VNC server on your CentOS machine to access desktop from windows. Please search for the VNC article using our search form at right top corner.

      Reply
  14. I have installed the Web server version, how can I install graphic support? basically I’d like to have the feel of Desktop installation. Thank you!

    Reply
  15. Dbetween below two release.

    CentOS-6.5-x86_64-LiveDVD.torrent
    ==============================
    CentOS-6.5—Release version of Linux
    x86_64—Processor type 8086 64bit
    LiveDVD—Media type DVD, extension *.iso. Cent OS can run from DVD.
    torrent— Torrent download available

    CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1to2.torrent
    ==================================
    CentOS-6.5—Release version of Linux
    x86_64—Processor type 8086 64bit
    bin—Binary type data(0 and 1)
    DVD—Media type DVD, extension *.iso
    torrent— Torrent download available

    You can choose any of two. Both are same without installation system.

    Thanx.

    Reply

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