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CentOS 7 Minimal Installation and Access with SSH Putty configuration( no Audio)

20 09 2021
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Please follow setup by step

DOWNLOAD CENTOS 7 MINIMAL
http://centos.mirror.snu.edu.in/centos/7.9.2009/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-2009.iso

downloaded

now
CREATE VM IN VMWare Workstation
-as i shown

VM NAME: CTS7-DEVOPS-LINUX1
VM LOCATION: H:CTS7 2021CTS7-DEVOPS-LINUX1

I HAVE 5.7GB FREE RAM MEMORY
SO I WILL GIVE 4GB RAM TO VM
JUST FOR FAST INSTALLATION

ALWAYS GIVE LESS THAN AVAILABLE MEMORY TO VM

UEFI OR BIOS ANY
I SELECTED UEFI

CHECK VT-X/AMD-V OPTION

add 3 lines in .vmx file
hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = “FALSE”
mce.enable = “TRUE”
vhu.enable = “TRUE”

THESE ARE OPTIONS ONLY IF YOU WANT INTERNAL OR NESTED VIRTUALIZATION
CHECK AT PROCESSOR -VIRTUALIZATION INTEL VT-X / AMD-V
AND
ADD 3 LINES TO .vmx FILE (AT BOTTUM OF TEXT FILE)

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LET START VM
AND
INSTALL CENTOS 7 MINIMAL

GIVE PASSWORD FOR ROOT, ADMIN@123

CREATE A NORMAL USER : DEVOPSADMIN, PASSWORD: DEVOPSADMIN

AFTER INSTALLATION DONE
REBOOT


LOGIN WITH ROOT USER
root
admin@123

i login into linux

check ip address

ip addr

nmcli

ens33: — nic name

192.168.29.129 –ip address


generate ssh key to get connect with putty with ssh

ssh-keygen

then press enter enter enter only

ssh key generated in folder .ssh

for root user

-download putty
https://www.putty.org/
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html

https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/w64/putty.exe

save it on desktop

-open putty
ip address
select ssh
save with some name
change setting as per required

open putty,

login with root
and
enter password:

finally i connect to my linux machine with putty

done

ifconfig – wont work now – i have to install net-tools

STILL I HAVE 2GB AVAILABLE RAM

AFTER INSTALLATION OF LINUX AND DONE SETTING REQUIRED -UPDATES N INSTALLATIONS
I WILL CHANGE VMs RAM TO 2GB

CENTO 7 MINIMAL IS ONLY CLI BASED NO GUI, NO ADDITIONAL PACKAGES
YOU CAN RUN LINUX VM WITH 512M RAM ALSO

–in next will show you how to update linux and install epel-release

some tools or apps….

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