How to install CentOS 7 by console redirection

1. Kindly press del key into BIOS, and set “Post & Boot”-> CSM support-> Video as Do not launch
The step is disable VGA ROM

2. Please set CentOS 7 installation media device as first boot device, and console-redirection will
show following message.
3. Please press “UP” key, and then press “TAB” key, it will show “Install CentOS 7” installation
command.

4. Please add “console=ttyS0,115200” in installation command , and then press “Enter key”
5. When console redirection function sets is OK. The console utility will show boot message

6. Following message is “CentOS-1511” console installation, it needs sting all [!] items ( item 1, 2,
3, 4, 5, 8, 9)
7. Please choose item2 to set Timezone ,
Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'b' to begin installation |
'r' to refresh]: 2
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Timezone settings

Available regions
1) Africa 6) Atlantic 10) Pacific
2) America 7) Australia 11) US
3) Antarctica 8) Europe 12) Etc
4) Arctic 9) Indian
5) Asia
Please select the timezone.
Use numbers or type names directly [b to region list, q to quit]:

we may choose 5 (Asia)

Use numbers or type names directly [b to region list, q to quit]: 5
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Timezone settings

Available timezones in region Asia

1) Aden 28) Irkutsk 54) Pyongyang
2) Almaty 29) Jakarta 55) Qatar
3) Amman 30) Jayapura 56) Qyzylorda
4) Anadyr 31) Jerusalem 57) Rangoon
5) Aqtau 32) Kabul 58) Riyadh
6) Aqtobe 33) Kamchatka 59) Sakhalin
7) Ashgabat 34) Karachi 60) Samarkand
8) Baghdad 35) Kathmandu 61) Seoul
9) Bahrain 36) Khandyga 62) Shanghai
10) Baku 37) Kolkata 63) Singapore
11) Bangkok 38) Krasnoyarsk 64) Srednekolymsk
12) Beirut 39) Kuala_Lumpur 65) Taipei
13) Bishkek 40) Kuching 66) Tashkent
14) Brunei 41) Kuwait 67) Tbilisi
15) Chita 42) Macau 68) Tehran
16) Choibalsan 43) Magadan 69) Thimphu
17) Colombo 44) Makassar 70) Tokyo
18) Damascus 45) Manila 71) Ulaanbaatar
19) Dhaka 46) Muscat 72) Urumqi
20) Dili 47) Nicosia 73) Ust-Nera
21) Dubai 48) Novokuznetsk 74) Vientiane
22) Dushanbe 49) Novosibirsk 75) Vladivostok
Press ENTER to continue

It needs pressing “Enter key” to continue message

23) Gaza 50) Omsk 76) Yakutsk
24) Hebron 51) Oral 77) Yekaterinburg
25) Ho_Chi_Minh 52) Phnom_Penh 78) Yerevan
26) Hong_Kong 53) Pontianak
27) Hovd
Please select the timezone.
Use numbers or type names directly [b to region list, q to quit]:

We may choose 61 (Seoul ) to finish Timezone setting

Please select the timezone.
Use numbers or type names directly [b to region list, q to quit]: 61
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Installation

1) [x] Language settings 2) [x] Timezone settings

(English (United States)) (Asia/Seoul timezone)
3) [x] Installation source 4) [!] Software selection
(Local media) (Minimal Install)
5) [!] Installation Destination 6) [x] Kdump
(No disks selected) (Kdump is enabled)
7) [ ] Network configuration 8) [!] Root password
(Not connected) (Password is not set.)
9) [!] User creation
(No user will be created)
Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'b' to begin installation |
'r' to refresh]:
9. Please choose item3 to set Installation source , if your installation source is CD/DVD, please
press 1

Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'b' to begin installation |
'r' to refresh]: 3
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Installation source

Choose an installation source type.

1) CD/DVD
2) local ISO file
3) Network
Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'c' to continue |
'r' to refresh]: 1
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Installation

10. Please choose item4 to set Software selection

Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'b' to begin installation |
'r' to refresh]: 4
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Base environment
Software selection

Base environment

1) [x] Minimal Install 7) [ ] Server with GUI

2) [ ] Compute Node 8) [ ] GNOME Desktop
3) [ ] Infrastructure Server 9) [ ] KDE Plasma Workspaces
4) [ ] File and Print Server 10) [ ] Development and Creative Work
5) [ ] Basic Web Server station
6) [ ] Virtualization Host
Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'c' to continue |
'r' to refresh]:
Recommending choose “10” to install Development and Creative Work station
Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'c' to continue |
'r' to refresh]: 10
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Base environment
Software selection

Base environment

1) [ ] Minimal Install 7) [ ] Server with GUI

2) [ ] Compute Node 8) [ ] GNOME Desktop
3) [ ] Infrastructure Server 9) [ ] KDE Plasma Workspaces
4) [ ] File and Print Server 10) [x] Development and Creative Work
5) [ ] Basic Web Server station
6) [ ] Virtualization Host
Please make your choi

Please press “c” to continue installation, item 4 needs some time to finish setting,
Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'c' to continue |
'r' to refresh]: c
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Installation

1) [x] Language settings 2) [x] Timezone settings

(English (United States)) (Asia/Seoul timezone)
3) [!] Installation source 4) [!] Software selection
(Processing...) (Processing...)
5) [!] Installation Destination 6) [x] Kdump
(No disks selected) (Kdump is enabled)
7) [ ] Network configuration 8) [!] Root password
(Not connected) (Password is not set.)
9) [!] User creation
(No user will be created)
Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'b' to begin installation |
'r' to refresh]:
11. Please choose item5 to set Installation Destination, my system is installing a WDC 750G HDD,
Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'b' to begin installation |
'r' to refresh]: 5
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Probing storage...
Installation Destination

[ ] 1) WDC WD7500BPKX-0: 698.64 GiB (sda)

[ ] 2) SanDisk Ultra: 14.44 GiB (sdb)

[ ] 3) Select all

No disks selected; please select at least one disk to install to.

Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'c' to continue |

I choose WDC 750G as Installation Destination

Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'c' to continue |
'r' to refresh]: 1
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Probing storage...
Installation Destination

[x] 1) WDC WD7500BPKX-0: 698.64 GiB (sda)

[ ] 2) SanDisk Ultra: 14.44 GiB (sdb)

[ ] 3) Select all

1 disk selected; 698.64 GiB capacity; 1880.5 KiB free ...

Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'c' to continue |
'r' to refresh]:
Please press c to continue to install, and then installation will show following message,
Recommending user choose item 2 (Use All Space)
Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'c' to continue |
'r' to refresh]:c

Autopartitioning Options

[ ] 1) Replace Existing Linux system(s)

[x] 2) Use All Space

[ ] 3) Use Free Space

Installation requires partitioning of your hard drive. Select what space to use
for the install target.

Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'c' to continue |
'r' to refresh]:

Autopartitioning Options chooses finish, please press “c” to continue to install OS.
Autopartitioning Options

[ ] 1) Replace Existing Linux system(s)

[x] 2) Use All Space

[ ] 3) Use Free Space

Installation requires partitioning of your hard drive. Select what space to use
for the install target.

Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'c' to continue |
'r' to refresh]:c
The next step is choose Partition Scheme,
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Partition Scheme Options

[ ] 1) Standard Partition

[ ] 2) Btrfs

[x] 3) LVM

[ ] 4) LVM Thin Provisioning

Select a partition scheme configuration.

Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'c' to continue |
'r' to refresh]:

For test, I recommend your choosing item 1 “Standard Partition”. and press “ c” to continue OS
installation,
Partition Scheme Options

[x] 1) Standard Partition

[ ] 2) Btrfs

[ ] 3) LVM

[ ] 4) LVM Thin Provisioning

Select a partition scheme configuration.

Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'c' to continue |
'r' to refresh]:c
Generating updated storage configuration
12. Please choose item8 to set Root password.
Installation

1) [x] Language settings 2) [x] Timezone settings

(English (United States)) (Asia/Seoul timezone)
3) [!] Installation source 4) [!] Software selection
(Processing...) (Processing...)
5) [x] Installation Destination 6) [x] Kdump
(Automatic partitioning selecte (Kdump is enabled)
d) 8) [!] Root password
7) [ ] Network configuration (Password is not set.)
(Not connected)
9) [!] User creation
(No user will be created)
Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'b' to begin installation |
'r' to refresh]: 8

Please keyin password & confirm again.

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Please select new root password. You will have to type it twice.

Password:
Password (confirm):
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When password is weak, it will ask customer to double confirm, if you agree weak password,
please key-in “yes”.
Question

You have provided a weak password: The password fails the dictionary check - it
is based on a dictionary word
Would you like to use it anyway?

Please respond 'yes' or 'no': yes

13. Please choose item9 to set user account.
1) [x] Language settings 2) [x] Timezone settings
(English (United States)) (Asia/Seoul timezone)
3) [!] Installation source 4) [!] Software selection
(Processing...) (Processing...)
5) [x] Installation Destination 6) [x] Kdump
(Automatic partitioning selecte (Kdump is enabled)
d) 8) [x] Root password
7) [ ] Network configuration (Password is set.)
(Not connected)
9) [ ] User creation
(No user will be created)
Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'b' to begin installation |
'r' to refresh]: 9
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User creation

1) [ ] Create user
Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'c' to continue |
'r' to refresh]:

Please press “1” to set user account.

User creation

1) [ ] Create user
Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'c' to continue |
'r' to refresh]: 1
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User creation

1) [x] Create user

2) Fullname
3) Username
4) [ ] Use password
5) [ ] Administrator
6) Groups
Please press “2” and key in user name.
Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'c' to continue |
'r' to refresh]: 2
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Enter new value for 'Fullname' and press enter
ae
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User creation

1) [x] Create user

2) Fullname
ae
3) Username
ae
4) [ ] Use password
5) [ ] Administrator
6) Groups

Please press 4 to set user password

Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'c' to continue |
'r' to refresh]: 4
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User creation

1) [x] Create user

2) Fullname
ae
3) Username
ae
4) [x] Use password
5) Password
6) [ ] Administrator
7) Groups
Please press “5”and key-in user password.
Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'c' to continue |
'r' to refresh]: 5
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Password:
Password (confirm):
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When user password is weak, it will ask customer the same question, if you agree weak password,
please key-in “yes”.
Question

You have provided a weak password: The password fails the dictionary check - it
is based on a dictionary word
Would you like to use it anyway?

Please respond 'yes' or 'no': yes

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User creation

1) [x] Create user

2) Fullname
ae
3) Username
ae
4) [x] Use password
5) Password
Password set.
6) [ ] Administrator
7) Groups
14 When user finishes user account setting, please press “c” to continue. When item 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,
are setting finish, please press “b” to begin installation
Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'c' to continue |
'r' to refresh]: c
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Installation

1) [x] Language settings 2) [x] Timezone settings

(English (United States)) (Asia/Seoul timezone)
3) [x] Installation source 4) [x] Software selection
(Local media) (Development and Creative Works
5) [x] Installation Destination tation)
(Automatic partitioning selecte 6) [x] Kdump
d) (Kdump is enabled)
7) [ ] Network configuration 8) [x] Root password
(Not connected) (Password is set.)
9) [x] User creation
(User ae will be created)
Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'b' to begin installation |
'r' to refresh]: b

The installation will format HDD & install OS’s package in HDD,
Progress
Setting up the installation environment
.
Creating disklabel on /dev/sda
.
Creating swap on /dev/sda2
.
Creating xfs on /dev/sda5
.
Creating xfs on /dev/sda3
.
Creating xfs on /dev/sda1
.
Starting package installation process
15. When OS’s package installs finish, it will show following message, please press Enter key to
complete installation
Performing post-installation setup tasks

Installing boot loader

.
Performing post-installation setup tasks
.

Configuring installed system

.
Writing network configuration
.
Creating users
.
Configuring addons
.
Generating initramfs
.
Running post-installation scripts
.
Use of this product is subject to the license agreement found at
/usr/share/centos-release/EULA

Installation complete. Press return to quit

And system will auto reboot.

[ OK ] Stopped Remount Root and Kernel File Systems.
Stopping Remount Root and Kernel File Systems...
[ OK ] Started Restore /run/initramfs.
[ OK ] Reached target Shutdown.
dracut Warning: Killing all remaining processes
Rebooting.

16. When system reboot, please remove installation media source, or into BIOS sets HDD as boot
device,
17. Console utility will show following message at next boot. Please choose “CentOS Linux
(3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64) 7 (Core)” to boot in linux

When OS first boot up, it needs user to agree License, please press “1”
Initial setup of CentOS Linux 7 (Core)

1) [!] License information

(License not accepted)
Please make your choice from [ '1' to enter the License information spoke | 'q' to
quit | 'c' to continue | 'r' to refresh]:1

And “2” to agree License , and then press “c” to continue

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License information

1) Read the License Agreement

[ ] 2) I accept the license agreement.

Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'c' to continue |
'r' to refresh]: 2
Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'c' to continue |
'r' to refresh]: c
The last step, key-in username & password to login centOS 7-1511
[ OK ] Reached target Multi-User System.
Starting Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes...
[ OK ] Started Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes.

CentOS Linux 7 (Core)

Kernel 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 on an x86_64

localhost login: root

Password:
[root@localhost ~]#