INSTALLATIONOFREDHATENTERPRISELINUX5.

4(64bit)

Author: Machine:

SabirMustafa(RHCE,OracleEnterpriseLinuxAssociate,MCSA) 01VMwith04virtualHDDs

ThisinstallationguideshallassumethatyoudonothaveHardwarebasedRAIDcontrollerand hencethesoftwareRAIDwillbecreatedduringtheinstallation. InstallRHEL5.4withthefollowingfilesystems,harddrivepartitionsandRAID: 1. PoweronthemachineandbootSystemfromRHELCDROM/DVDROM 2. Onthefirstscreen,pressentertostartwithgraphicalInstallation 3. PressSkipbuttonwhenaskedforMediatest

4. PressNextinLanguageSectiontochoosedefaultEnglishlanguage 5. SkipInstallationNumberbox

6. Whenaskedfordiskpartition,clickonCustomlayoutandpressNext 7. ClickondisksdaandpressNewbuttontocreatepartitionlayoutasfollows

8. Inthenextscreen,deletealltheexistingpartitionsonDiskandcreatedisklayoutasfollows: Button Choice Disk Size New softwareraid sda 5GB New softwareraid sda 4GB New softwareraid sda 20GB New softwareraid sda 125GB New softwareraid sda maximumallowablespace Note:Repeattheabovementionedstepsfortheremainingdisksi.e.sdb,sdcandsddetc

9. Aftercreatingandallocatingspacetopartitions,nexttaskistocreateRAIDdiskforfault tolerance.OnthesamescreenclickonRAIDbuttontocreateRAIDpartition Button Mountpoint RAIDName RAIDlevel RAID /tmp md0 RAID5 RAID swap md1 RAID5 RAID / md2 RAID1 RAID /backup md3 RAID5 RAID /opt md4 RAID5 10. Skip the IP addressboxifyouareplanningto give IP address later. In the map option select Asia/Karachiasyourtimezone. 11. Click Next button and on next screen choose Customize now and choose the

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All Gnome Packages Applications

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Editors Graphical Internet Graphics Development Libraries Development Tools Gnome Development Java Development Legacy software Dev X software De.

No. of packages
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DNS name server 1 Server Configuration Tools 9 Administration Tools Base Java Legacy software support System tools X Windows System 15 141 10 55 38

Base System

KeepallotheroptionsonDefault. 12. TheSystemwillstarttheinstallationandoncompletionautomaticallyrestarts. 13. On restart welcome screen appears, click next and disable the firewall and SELinux if desired. You can also create a limited user account at the same time to protect the system byloggingonthroughlimitedaccount. CheckingRAID RunthefollowingcommandtoverifyRAID #cat/proc/mdstat RunthefollowingcommandfordetailsettingsofRAID. #mdadmndetail/dev/md1 ENDOFINSTALLATIONDOCUMENT