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If you are planning on installing the CentOS distribution directly on a computer's hardware instead of creating a VM, you need to do one additional step after checking the ISO image file: create a bootable media device. While bootable DVDs were popular many years ago, most hardware installations are handled through a bootable USB drive. The process of creating this bootable USB (or DVD) is called burning an ISO file to a USB drive. You cannot just copy the file to the USB. Instead, you'll need a special software app that will burn the ISO properly. To find the right software, open your web browser and go to your favorite search engine. Type burn a bootable USB and press Enter. The resulting list will have several sites that point to free software with instructions. Once you have your CentOS ISO image file properly burned to a USB (or DVD) drive, you'll be able to boot your system and perform the installation process similar to what is covered in the next section.

Now that you've verified your copy of the CentOS ISO image file and have downloaded the Oracle VirtualBox hypervisor software, you're ready to start the installation. We'll cover that process next.