Oracle® Linux - Installation Guide for Release 6

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5 6901)iiiTable of v1 Pre- Installation System Obtaining oracle Linux 6 Installation Planning the Configuring a Network Installation Setting up a New NFS Configuring an Existing NFS Setting up a New HTTP Configuring an Existing HTTP Setting up a Network Installation Modifying a Full DVD Image to Support Btrfs root File System Configuring DHCP and TFTP Services to Support PXE Configuring Dnsmasq to Support PXE About Boot-Loader Configuration Configuring DHCP to Support iPXE Writing a Boot ISO Image to CD or Customizing an Installation Boot Creating a Bootable USB Memory 212 Installing oracle Linux

6 Installation Starting the Continuing the Configuring Disk Selecting Software Performing FirstBoot Configuration Installation Boot Installation Installing a System with a Btrfs root File Installing a Btrfs root File Using a Driver Update 363 Installing oracle Linux by Using Creating a Kickstart Installation Options Packages Pre- Installation Configuration Post- Installation Configuration Using a Kickstart File to Install a 424 Post- Installation Registering with the Unbreakable Linux Obtaining Errata and Updates from the oracle Linux Yum Obtaining Packages from the oracle Linux Installation Applying Installing the Unbreakable Enterprise Upgrading the Unbreakable Enterprise Configuring the System Changing the SELinux 48ivvPrefaceThe oracle Linux Installation Guide provides information about how to install and upgrade oracle Linux document is intended for administrators who need to install and configure oracle Linux 6.

7 Itis assumed that readers are familiar with web technologies and have a general understanding ofadministering the Linux operating OrganizationThe document is organized as follows: Chapter 1, Pre- Installation Configuration describes the system requirements for oracle Linux 6, how toobtain the oracle Linux 6 software, information that you require to install a system, and how to set up anetwork Installation server . Chapter 2, Installing oracle Linux Manually describes how to install oracle Linux manually from a bootimage that is available on CD, DVD, USB memory stick, hard drive, virtual device hosted by a virtualmachine hypervisor, or a remote server that is accessible via HTTP or NFS. Chapter 3, Installing oracle Linux by Using Kickstart describes how you can use kickstart to automatethe Installation of oracle Linux .

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9 For information, or visit if you are hearing 1 Pre- Installation ConfigurationTable of System Obtaining oracle Linux 6 Installation Planning the Configuring a Network Installation Setting up a New NFS Configuring an Existing NFS Setting up a New HTTP Configuring an Existing HTTP Setting up a Network Installation Modifying a Full DVD Image to Support Btrfs root File System Configuring DHCP and TFTP Services to Support PXE Configuring Dnsmasq to Support PXE About Boot-Loader Configuration Configuring DHCP to Support iPXE Writing a Boot ISO Image to CD or Customizing an Installation Boot Creating a Bootable USB Memory 21

10 This chapter describes system and other requirements for installing oracle Linux 6, including how to obtainthe oracle Linux 6 software and how to plan for an Installation . Additional configuration information, forexample, how to set up a network Installation server, is also provided in this chapter . System RequirementsYou can install oracle Linux 6 on systems with a 32 or 64-bit x86 architecture (x86 or x86_64), a minimumof 1 GB of memory, a minimum of 1 GB of disk space, and an unlimited number of CPU cores. Themaximum supported memory size is 64 GB for x86 and 4 TB for your system supports UEFI mode and you plan to boot and install oracle Linux 6 in this mode, makesure that the target disk uses GPT (GUID Partition Table), as some UEFI firmwares do not allow UEFI/MBR the most up-to-date information about system requirements, see Obtaining oracle Linux 6 Installation MediaThe oracle Linux distribution is free to download, use and can download oracle Linux Installation images from the oracle Software Delivery Cloud at After Installation , you can obtain oracle Linux packages from the UnbreakableLinux Network (ULN) and the oracle Linux yum server.