We will add one more partition just as an example but you can skip the creation of this one
The thin pool is helpful because it can be expanded dynamically when needed for cost-effective allocation of storage space LVM thin provisioning which help to manage a storage pool of free space usually known as a thin pool.It's practical because when using it, you can easily resize your partitions by adding a new hard drive. Logical Volume (LVM) partition which generates an LVM logical volume which is helpful because it improves the performance when using physical disks.
Standard partition which can contain a file system or swap space or provide a container for software RAID or an LVM physical volume.
When you boot for an EFI installation, you have boot startup belowĬentos offers 3 types of partitioning scheme for a manual partitioning: It's not really different from a Bios installation and we will see where it can be different during the next steps of our guide. In my case, the computer supports EFI installation which means that I will perform an EFI installation process. We will need first to insert the USB device and then boot on it. Step 3: Start with the installation process Make sure to replace the sdb which the one matching your usb device. To create the bootable device, we will use the dd command, if your usb device is sdb, use the command below dd if=CentOS-8-x86_64-1905-dvd1.iso of=/dev/sdb We will need a USB with at least 8 GiB size. In our case, to perform the installation, we will use a USB device to make it bootable. It supported the following architectures: The new version size is around 7 GiB.Ĭentos 8 requires 2 GB of RAM for the installation but 4 GB is recommended. The latest release Centos 8 can be downloaded from the centos official site which offers direct download or torrent download. In this tutorial, we will go through the process which will help you to install the latest release CentOS 8 through a manual installation and a good understanding of the partitioning schemes that it offers. The new CentOS 8 comes with many new features such as BaseOS providing packages for setting up a minimal operating system, AppStream for the additional userspace applications that you can need, a new Container Tool using Podman which replaces Docker. With the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 on, it was natural for the CentOS users to also wait for the new release CentOs 8 which finally occurred on.
The CentOS project has provided the community with a free, enterprise-grade operating system through a recompilation of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source which is popular among many Linux professional users.