Step By Step Installation of Red-hat Enterprise Linux 5

Insert the  Red Hat Enterprise Linux DVD(version5) in your DVD drive and restart your system (This reboot is required in order for your computer to detect bootable DVD). After restart Red Hat

installer should boot as shown in the figure below




1.We must choose the type of installation. In this example we will be

using the graphical mode installation. Hit enter key to start the

installation. On the welcome screen the installation process will

prompt you to check and test your installer. Select OK to test your

media (CD/DVD), otherwise select skip to continue installing Red Hat

Enterprise Linux,shown in the figure below

2. On the Graphical Interface of red hat installation, click on the next button

3. Select your language and click next



4. You will be asked to enter your installation number if you have

enter it, otherwise skip entering installation number and click OK.






5. After installation number you will see the hard disk partitioning

section. Select the Use free space on selected drive and click next. If

you select create custom  layout option , then you must create the

mandatory mount point as given below

/  = 6-7 GB         /     called as root partition.

/tmp = 400-600 MB

/boot= 200 MB

Swap= 2*RAM Size


 
6. Click Next and in the Next screen, in the network devices window set

the host name to automatically via DHCP and click next

7. Select your region or location on the next window; you can click on the map for your location



 

8. Enter the Root password on the next window, Root is the administrator account for
  Linux operating systems.


 
9. The next steps will be on the selection of additional packages to be installed

on your Enterprise Linux Operating System. Preferably select all the Packages.


 
10. After selecting these additional packages, installation of the

operating system and these additional packages will begin, wait for

the system to finish the installation.





 11. The next screen you will see configuration of firewall Select

enabled and select the services you need to pass through the

firewall. You can also add TCP and UDP ports, otherwise select

disabled and click forward




 12. On the SE Linux window, select the Enforcing option and click

forward, otherwise select disable and click forward

 
 13. On the next window uncheck the enable KDump option and click

forward. Set the date and time in the Date and Time Window. In the

software update set up, select yes if you want to connect to the Red

Hat website for updates(this step is optional), otherwise Select no if

you do not want to connect or plan to connect at a later time


14. Create you preferred username and password in the Create User

window then click forward. You can test your sound card in the

next window. After that you will be asked to insert additional CD’s to

install. Since we don’t have any additional CD click the finish button.

Your Linux Enterprise 5 operating system is ready to use. You just

need to login to the system and start using Linux Enterprise 5

operating system.

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