December 2018
Beginner
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Once downloaded (which may take a while, since even minimal is large), you will be faced with an ISO image.
On my Ubuntu installation, I can see it in my Downloads folder:
$ ls ~/Downloads/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1804.iso
One way to confirm our installation media and ensure that we've downloaded exactly what we expect, is to compare the Sha256 sum of the downloaded file with a known-good value. This both proves that it's the download we expect it to be, and also checks that no corruption has occurred during the file download.
CentOS provides a release notes page that we can visit to find the Sha256 sum we're comparing: https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes.
Click through to Release Notes for CentOS 7, which should ...
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