You will now be prompted with the login screen. You should see the CentOS booting progress as shown below. Hit Enter for the CentOS virtual machine to restart. Once installation is complete you will be prompted with a “ Reboot” button. It would take a few minutes depending on the speed of your computer. This will now install all the required packages. Select “ Write changes to disk” and hit Enter. Select the first option “ Use entire drive“, then select “ OK” and hit Enter in your keyboard. Now you need to create a root password for your CentOS virtual machine. After you have selected the Time Zone, select “ OK” and hit Enter in your keyboard. You can use the arrow keys to cycle down each entry or you can use the Page UP/ Page Down key in your keyboard to cycle through the list quickly. Now, make sure you select the right time zone. Now, you will get a Warning message “ Error processing drive“. Select the last option “ Re-initialize all” using arrow/ TAB keys and hit Enter. Select the keyboard layout as “ us” and hit Enter. Select the language as “ English” and hit Enter. You will see a message “ Welcome to CentOS!” with an “ OK” button. Now, use your arrow key/ TAB key to select option “ Skip” and hit ENTER in your keyboard. The virtual machine will now boot from the provided CentOS ISO image and you will be presented with the boot menu as shown below. Select the first option “ Install or upgrade and existing system” and hit Enter in your keyboard. Once, you have selected the ISO file, you can click on “ Start“. We need to provide the CentOS ISO file we downloaded earlier to Virtualbox for the VM to boot from the ISO image. You can do this by clicking on the folder icon as shown below and then selecting the CentOS ISO file and then clicking on “ Open“. Now, click on the CentOS virtual machine that you created and then click on “ Start” as shown below.
You can now select the size of the hard disk you need to allocate for your CentOS virtual machine and then click on “ Create“. Select “ Dynamically Allocated” and then click on “ Next“. Now, select the first option “ VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image)” and then click on “ Next“. You can now click on “Create a virtual hard disk now” and then click “ Create“. For this installation, allocate 512 MB of RAM for text mode installation and then click on “ Next“.
Now, select the amount of memory /RAM you need to allocate to your CentOS virtual machine. Make sure that the “Type” is “ Linux” and the “Version” is “ Redhat (32-bit)” as we have downloaded the 32-bit version of CentOS. I have named mine as “ CentOS 6.7 minimal (32-bit)“. Go ahead download and install Virtual Box (the download link is given above in the requirements). CentOS 6.7 32-bit ISO: Download Link ( ~354 MB) įirst, thing we need to do is to set up Virtual Box.
This is a guide on how to install CentOS 6.7 minimal on virtualbox (text mode) in Windows 8.1 including screenshots.
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