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INSTALLATIONOFREDHATENTERPRISELINUX5.4(64bit)
Author: SabirMustafa(RHCE,OracleEnterpriseLinuxAssociate,MCSA)
Machine: 01VMwith04virtualHDDs
Thisinstallation
guide
shall
assume
that
you
do
not
have
Hardware
based
RAID
controller
and
hencethesoftwareRAIDwillbecreatedduringtheinstallation.
InstallRHEL5.4withthefollowingfilesystems,harddrivepartitionsandRAID:
1. PoweronthemachineandbootSystemfromRHELCDROM/DVDROM
2. Onthefirstscreen,pressentertostartwithgraphicalInstallation
3. PressSkipbuttonwhenaskedforMediatest
4. PressNextinLanguageSectiontochoosedefaultEnglishlanguage
5. SkipInstallationNumberbox
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6. Whenaskedfordiskpartition,clickonCustomlayout andpressNext
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
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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. ClickNextbutton
and on next screen choose
Customizenowandchoosethe
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followingsoftwareinpackagesselectionlist.
Package Header Sub Header No. of packages Packages needed
All Gnome Packages - - -
Applications Editors
Graphical InternetGraphics
9
511
All
AllAll
Development Development LibrariesDevelopment ToolsGnome DevelopmentJava DevelopmentLegacy software DevX software De.
6247207944
AllAllAllAllAllAll
Sever DNS name serverServer Configuration Tools
19
AllAll
Base System Administration Tools
BaseJavaLegacy software supportSystem toolsX Windows System
15
141-105538
All
AllAllAllAllAll
KeepallotheroptionsonDefault.
12.TheSystemwillstarttheinstallationandoncompletionautomaticallyrestarts.
13.On restart welcome screen appears, click next and disable the firewall and SELinux if
desired.You
can
also
create
alimited
user
account
at
the
same
time
to
protect
the
system
byloggingonthroughlimitedaccount.
CheckingRAID
RunthefollowingcommandtoverifyRAID
#cat/proc/mdstat
RunthefollowingcommandfordetailsettingsofRAID.
#mdadmn detail/dev/md1
ENDOFINSTALLATIONDOCUMENT