Installing a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 operating system
This topic provides instructions on how to install a Red Hat
®
Enterprise Linux 5.6 operating system (32-bit
or 64-bit).
To install a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 operating system (32-bit or 64-bit), do the following:
Notes:
• Ensure that you have prepared all the required items before installing an operating system. See “Before
installing an operating system” on page 1.
• Follow the instructions on the screen in addition to the instructions in this topic.
1. Insert the operating system installation disc into the optical drive that you have set as the first startup
device. Then, start the server from the optical drive.
2. When the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 installation welcome window opens, type
linux dd noprobe=ata1
noprobe=ata2 noprobe=ata3 noprobe=ata4
after
boot:
, and then press Enter.
Notes:
If your server is in one of the following situations, go to step 6.
• The SATA configuration on your server is set to
IDE
or
AHCI
• The disk array on your server is configured on a RAID card
3. When a dialogue box opens asking you if you have a driver disk, select
Yes
, and then press Enter.
4. When the
Insert Driver Disk
dialogue box opens notifying you that your driver disk will be inserted,
select
OK
, and then press Enter.
5. When a dialogue box opens asking you if more driver disks are needed, select
No
, and then press Enter.
6. When a dialogue box opens asking you if you want to check the hard disk drive, depending on your
needs, select
OK
to do the check and select
Skip
to skip the check.
7. When the REDHAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 installation window opens, click
Next
.
8. Select the language that you want to use during the installation, and then click
Next
.
9. Select the appropriate keyboard for the system, and then click
Next
.
10. When a window opens prompting you to type the installation number, type it or click
Skip
. The
installation number enables the automatic installation of some software programs such as the
storage clustering programs and the virtualization programs. You can obtain the installation number
at http://www.redhat.com/InstNum/. You also can skip this step and manually install the software
programs later.
11. Select
Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
, and then click
Next
.
12. By default, a partition is already selected for you to install the operating system. If you want to manually
create a partition, select one of the following:
•
Remove all partitions on selected drives and create default layout
•
Remove Linux partitions on selected drives and create default layout
•
Use free space on selected drives and create default layout
•
Create custom layout
13. The
Create custom layout
option will be taken as an example in this manual to show how to manually
create a partition. After you select
Create custom layout
, do one of the following:
• Manually create a root partition (/)
To create a root partition, do the following:
a. Click
New
.
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