RHEL6 Installation ?

RHEL6 installation is very simple you just need to do some clicks and few selections and your operating system is ready.

Assuming you have a RHEL6 disk and a system in which you can install RHEL6.

Boot from local drive

• Boot your machine and select the boot device a DVD. You will see a screen like the given below

When you install the Linux, so you can see four options in there.

•  Install or upgrade an existing system
• Install system with basic video drivers
• Rescue Installed system
• Boot from local drive

• Select the installation type as "Install system with basic video driver".

• If your disk is a new one then you can skip this check otherwise do check your disk for any errors.

• Here I did skip this step, as I was aware that this will not give any issues while installing the machine. After this you will see a screen somewhat like this, just press Next.

• Choose a language as per your requirements.

• Choose the keyboard layout as per your requirements.

• Select the storage device in which you want to install your OS.

• Type the hostname of your machine(as per your requirements).

• Select the time-zone.

• Give root password for your machine if you did give a weak root password then it will prompt you that your root password is weak do you want to continue or not?

• Select type of installation i.e. the layout how your hard disk will be partitioned. **OPTIONAL: If in case you select the option as "Encrypt system" if will ask you to select your LUKS password. By this option you can encrypt whole your hard disk.

• Enter password for encrypted partition

• Once you press OK you will be brought to a prompt about "Writing storage config to disk", press Write changes to disk. If and only if you think that you selected all the things correctly.

• Select the basic type of system which you want to install like a server or desktop etc in this case I have selected desktop, after your selection press next.

• You will see somewhat like this "Initialization of your installation process".

• The it will start installing packages

• Once all the packages are installed it will ask you to reboot your machine, Do a reboot of your machine just by pressing the Reboot button.

• After your machine is up again just accept the licence agreement and click Forward.

• Create a user for your machine so that you can login to the OS.

• Select Date and Time and click Forward.

• Your login screen will be somewhat like the one given below