3. Installing CentOS 8 on a Clean Disk Drive

There are now two ways in which a CentOS 8 system can be deployed. One method is to either purchase new hardware or re-purpose an existing computer system on which to install and run the operating system. Another option is to create a cloud-based operating system instance using services such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure (to name but a few). Since cloud-based instances are typically created by selecting a pre-configured, ready to run operating system image that is already optimized for the cloud platform, and using that as the basis for the CentOS system, there is no need to perform a manual operating system installation in this situation.

If, on the other hand, you plan to install ...

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