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How to Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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I am going to demonstrate a typical
RHEL 5 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) installation in this article. I usually do
this kind of installation to host oracle test databases. It should be a good
start for you and off course you can customize this process a little bit to
suite your environment. I will use a DVD media for RHEL 5.
1. You need to put the DVD in your
computer and boot the computer from that DVD.
2. Next the installer will offer you
if you want to check the DVD media before installation. Choose skip here.
3. Next you will see the first page
of the Installation wizard. Press Next.
4. Select the Language that will be
used in the rest of the installation.
5. Select the keyboard type.
6. Next you will be asked to put
your installation number. You may skip entering this number if you don't have
one.
7. Now you need to tell what do you
want to do with your disk. I usually choose "Create custom layout"
and create the partitions I need on the disk.
8. Here is our disk all free space
if this is a fresh disk. This is a 30gb disk. Click "New" to create a
partition.
9. First partition will be boot
partition size 100m. This will allow the OS to keep the boot record on a
separate partition.
10. The second partition will be
/tmp. The size of /tmp depends upon the oracle database I am going to install
e.g. Oracle 10g requires 400mb of space in /tmp and Oracle 11g requires at
least 1gb. I will create /tmp with a size of 1.5gb.
11. Then comes the swap partition.
The swap's size is dependent on the amount of physical RAM you have. I have 2G
of RAM so the swap should be 1.5 times of 2G i.e. 3G. (This formula works for
both Oracle 10g and 11g.)
12. The fourth partition will be
/u01, a partition that will be used specifically for oracle software and
database files. I am setting the size to 15gb.
13. The fifth partition is the
"/" which is the root mount point for the operating system. We give
it all the space left on the disk.
14. This is how your partitioning
scheme should look like when you are done.
15. This screen will ask you if you
want to keep the boot record on the disk or not. Keep the defaults and press
next.
16. Here we will configure the
network. Provide a hostname manually. Then click the Edit Button against
Network Devices, disable the ipv6 and provide a static IP Address for IPv4. NO
DHCP.
17. Click on the map to choose a
region for your Time Zone.
18. Provide the password for the
root (Administrator User in Linux) user.
19. Select the OS packages that you
need. Mostly leaving it as default should be okay. But it is a nice idea to
install some development packages which oracle may need while installation.
Select "Customize now" and press Next.
20. All packages are listed. Right
click on the package category and press "Select all optional
packages" to install every thing in that category.
21. Press next here, to start the
installation.
22. This will take several minutes,
before the installation is complete. Once the installation is complete the
system will reboot. Remove any media from DVD before the system restarts.
23. After rebooting you will have to
do some setup tasks. This is the Welcome page of the setup wizard. Press Next.
24. Accept the license agreement and
pres Next.
25. Disable the firewall and press
Next.
26. Set SELinux
"Disabled". If you leave it at "enforcing" you are gonna
have trouble with oracle later for example you may not be able to start
"sqlplus".
27. Leave kdump disabled.
28. Set the date and time.
29. Select to register at a later
time.
30. If you have chosen not to
register then this page shows that your system is not setup for Updates.
31. Use this page to create any
additional users other then root.
32. Setup your sound card.
33. Use this page to install any
additional software. Press Finish when done. The system will reboot again.
34. After reboot you will see the
login screen. Login as root here using the password you provided during the
install.
35. This is your RHEL 5 desktop. The
installation is successful.
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