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Before You Begin
Install Operating System Software per manufacturer's instructions. Below is a procedure on installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The procedure should be used as a guideline to installing the Linux OS. It should not be followed exactly since the installation changes with each version of Red Hat released.
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Insert Linux Installation Disk 1. Reboot the machine. The CD will boot into a screen that will ask how you would like to install the OS. In this example the Graphical mode was selected. A welcome screen will appear select next.
The next few screens will configure language and Keyboard Type. Make selections accordingly.
The next screen will ask whether to install OS as a fresh installation or to update existing. In this example a fresh installation was chosen.
The hard drive needs to be configured. Either Automatic or Manual partitioning can be chosen. In this example manual partitioning was chosen. Below is the recommended partitioning scheme and hard drive sizes.
Partition | Recommended with Hard Drive = 80 Gig |
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/ | (Remaining Balance) |
boot | 1024 MB |
swap | 4096 MB |
usr | 10240 MB |
home | 12301 MB |
opt | 23234 MB |
var | 10240 MB |
Partition | Recommended with Hard Drive = 160 Gig |
/ | 4.2 GB |
boot | 200 MB |
swap | 2.00 GB |
usr | 28.8 GB |
home | 32 GB |
opt | 64 GB |
var | 28.8 GB |
Once partitioning is finished then you will be asked whether to remove all partitions existing on drive. In this example removing all partitions was selected.
Configuring the Ethernet interfaces is accomplished next. In this example a static IP address was given to the machine. Uncheck "Configure using DHCPD". This will allow a hostname to be entered for the machine along with Default Gateway and Primary/Secondary/Tertiary DNS IP addresses.
Enable/Disable the firewall will be asked. Select accordingly. In this example the firewall was disabled.
If the firewall is enabled be sure to check the boxes for each service that you would like to allow access to. In this example all boxes were checked. Also remote access will be blocked if the firewall is enabled. See IMG 1010 - Configuring Remote Desktop for more information.
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