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Installation of "Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.0" With Screenshots

This document provides step-by-step instructions for installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.0, including selecting installation options, partitioning disks, configuring networking, setting passwords, and completing the installation process. Key steps include choosing a minimal installation, using LVM partitioning, setting the hostname and static IP address, and creating a new administrator user account. Upon completion, the user can reboot into their new RHEL 7 environment.

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Installation of "Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.0" With Screenshots

This document provides step-by-step instructions for installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.0, including selecting installation options, partitioning disks, configuring networking, setting passwords, and completing the installation process. Key steps include choosing a minimal installation, using LVM partitioning, setting the hostname and static IP address, and creating a new administrator user account. Upon completion, the user can reboot into their new RHEL 7 environment.

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Installation of “Red Hat Enterprise

Linux (RHEL) 7.0” with Screenshots


by Matei Cezar | Published: July 4, 2014 | Last Updated: January 7, 2015
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Red Hat, Inc. the largest company in Open Source world, released last month
one of their major enterprise products – RHEL 7.0 – Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
designed for modern datacenters, new cloud platforms and big data.

RHEL 7 Installation Guide

Among other important improvement like switching to systemd, who now


manages daemons, processes and other important system resources even
for init services that are now passed through systemd start-up, use of Linux
Containers with Docker, cross-realm trust for Microsoft Active Directory, one
important aspect represents the XFS as the default filesystem, which can
support filesystems up to 16 exabytes and files up to 8 exabytes.
Requirements:
You must have an active Red Hat subscription to download RHEL 7.0
ISO image from Red Hat Customer Portal.
1. RHEL 7.0 Binary DVD ISO image
Although RHEL can be installed on a variety of platforms, such as AMD 64,
Intel 64, IBM System Z, IBM Power, etc. This tutorial covers the RHEL
7.0 basic minimal installation with on an Intel x86-64 processor architecture
using a binary DVD ISO image, an installation best suited for developing a
high customizable server platform with no Graphical Interface.
Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0
1. After registering on Red Hat Customer Portal go to Download section and
grab the last version of RHEL DVD Binary ISO image, then burn it to a DVD
media or create a USB bootable media using Unetbootin LiveUSB Creator.
2. Then place the DVD/USB in your appropriate system drive, start your
computer, select bootable unit and on the first RHEL prompt select Install Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0

3. After the system loads, select the language for installation process and hit
on Continue.
Booting RHEL 7
Select Language for Installation

4. When the installer gets on Installation Summary it’s time to customize the


installation process. First click on Date & Time, choose your system location
from the provided map and hit on Done to apply configuration.
RHEL 7 Installation Summary
Select Date, Time and Location

5. The next step is to change Language System Support and Keyboard language.


Click on both if you want to change or add other languages to your system but
for a server the recommendation is to stick with English language.
Language System Support

6. If you want to use other sources than the ones provided by the DVD media
hit on Installation Source and add your Additional Repositories or specify a
network location using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP or NFS protocols then hit
on Done to use your new sources. If you can’t provide other sources stick to
default one Auto-detected installation media.
Installation Source
Select Network Location

7. The next important step is to select your system software. Click on Software
Selection and choose your Base Installation Environment from the down-list.
For a highly customizable platform where you can install only the packages
that you need after the installation, choose Minimal Install with Compatibility
Libraries Add-ons, then hit on Done to apply this changes to installation
process.
Select Software Selection
Select RHEL 7 Minimal Installation

8. The next important step is to configure your system partitions. Click


on Installation Destination, select LVM as partition scheme for a
better management over system space, then hit on Click here to create them
automatically.
Installation Destination
Select LVM Partition Scheme

9. After the installer presents you with default system partition scheme you
can edit in any way that suits you (delete and recreate partitions and mount
points, change partitions space capacity and file system type, etc.). As the
base scheme for a server you should use dedicated partitions such as:
1. /boot – 500 MB – non-LVM
2. /root – min 20 GB – LVM
3. /home – LVM
4. /var – min 20 GB – LVM
With XFS filesystem, which is the most advanced filesystem in the world. After
editing partitions hit on Update Setting button, then click on Done then Accept
Changes on Summary of Changes prompt to apply new configurations.
As a note, if your Hard-Disk is larger than 2TB in size the installer
automatically will convert partition table to GPT disks and if you want to use
GPT table on disks smaller than 2TB, then you should pass the
argument inst.gpt to the boot command line in order to change the default
behaviour.

Create /boot Partition


Select /boot Partition Type
Create /root Partition
Summary of Partition Changes

10. The last step before continuing with installation process is setting your
Network Connection. Click on Network & Hostname and setup your system
hostname. Here you can use your short system hostname or you can append
the dot domain (FQDN).
Set System Hostname

11. After setting up hostname bring up your Network Interface by switching the


top Ethernet button to ON. If your network provides automatic Interface
configurations through a DHCP server your IPs should be visible on Ethernet
Interface Card else go to Configure button and provide your static network
settings for your appropriate network connection.
Enable Ethernet Interface
Enter Static Network Settings

12. After finishing editing Ethernet Interface settings hit on Done which you


bring you to default window installer and after you check on your installation
settings hit on Begin Installation to proceed further with system installation.
Begin RHEL 7 Installation

13. As the installation begins writing the system components on your hard-
disk, you need to supply your Root Password and create a new User. Click
on Root Password and try choose a strong with one at least eight characters in
length (alpha-numerical and special characters) and hit in Done when you
finish.
RHEL 7 Installation Process
Set root Password

14. Then move to User Creation and provide your credentials for this new user.
A good idea is to use this user as a system administrator with root powers
through sudo command by checking the box Make this user administrator, then
click on Done and wait for the installation process to finish.
Select User Creation
Enter User Details

15. After the installation finishes the installer will announce that everything
completed with success so you should be ready to use your system after
reboot.
RHEL 7 Installation Complete

Congratulation! Remove you installation media and reboot your computer and
you can now login to your new minimal Red Hat Linux 7.0 environment and
perform other system tasks for beginning like register you system to a Red Hat
Subscription, activate your system Repositories, update you system and install
other useful tools needed to run day to day tasks.
These all tasks can be discussed in my upcoming article. Till then stay tuned
to Tecmint for more such howto’s and don’t forget to give your feedback about
the installation.

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