How to Install Rocky Linux 9 Step by Step with Screenshots
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In this guide, we will cover how to install Rocky Linux 9 step by step with screenshots.
Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation has released its latest operating system ‘Rocky Linux 9’. Rocky Linux is free and open-source operating system for workstation and servers. It is considered as drop-in replacement for CentOS Linux.
‘Blue Onyx’ is the Code name for Rocky Linux 9, it is the clone of RHEL 9. The main difference between Rocky Linux and RHEL is that it has its own open-source build system called ‘Peridot’.
##### New Updates and Features of Rocky Linux 9
* Gnome 40 is the default Desktop Environment.
* Support for Direct Access (DAX) operations on XFS file system
* Updated runtime and compilers like GCC 11.2.1, LLVM (13.0.1), Rust (1.58.1), and Go (1.17.1).
* Updated development tool chain like Python 3.9, Node.js 16, Ruby 3.0.3, Perl 5.32 & PHP 8.0
* By Default, root user authentication disabled over ssh.
* Updated OpenSSL 3.0 and improved cockpit web console.
* Community support till May 31st, 2032.
##### Prerequisites
* 2 GB RAM or more
* 2 CPU Core (1.1 GHz Processor or higher)
* 20 GB hard disk space
* Boot Media (USD or DVD)
* Internet Connectivity (Optional)
Without any delay, let’s jump into Rocky Linux 9 installation steps,
### 1) Download Rocky Linux 9 ISO File
Use the following official URL to download ISO file,
* [Rocky Linux 9 ISO][1]
Once you have downloaded the iso file, make a bootable media (USB/DVD) using the downloaded iso.
In Windows, you can use ‘Rufus’ software to make bootable USB drive using ISO file. In Linux, refer the following
* [How to Create Bootable USB Drive on Ubuntu / Linux Mint][2]
### 2) Boot System with Bootable Media
Head to the system on which you are planning to install Rocky Linux 9, reboot it and change the boot medium from hard disk to USB from its bios settings.
Once the system boots up with bootable media then we will get the following screen,
![Select-Install-Rocky-Linux-9-option][3]
Choose the first option, ‘Install Rocky Linux 9.0’ and hit enter.
### 3) Choose Preferred Language
Select your preferred language for the installation and then click on Continue,
In this step, we will get the following initial installation summary. To begin the installation, first we must complete marked items like ‘Installation Destination’ and ‘User settings’.
Apart from the marked items, we can also change the existing items, just click on them and change it as per your requirement.
![Initial-Installation-Summary-Rocky-Linux9][5]
##### Configure Installation Destination
In this item, we will specify the partition scheme for Rocky Linux. Click on ‘Installation Destination’.
Here we can choose either automatic or custom option for storage configuration or partition scheme.
In automatic option, partitions will be created automatically by installer on the disk whereas custom option allows us to create manual partitions on disk.
