Oracle Linux 7 (OEL7) Installation

Introduction:

This article guides you to perform the installation of Oracle Linux 7 (OEL7).

  1. Choose “Install Oracle Linux 7.3” and press enter.

Step:1 Select the type of configuration do you want, typical or custom. Mostly in this below options typical is recommended if you need to set some advanced configuration you can choose custom option.

Step:2 Browse  the iso file location and select I will install the operating system later option.

 

Step:3 Select a guest operating system, I have chosen the Linux operating system.

 

Step:4 Specify the virtual machine name and location of the virtual machine.

Step:5 Configure the maximum disk size I have configured the 200GB disk size and select the option store virtual disk as a single file.

 

Step:6 Specify the memory size of the virtual machine.

 

Step:7 Use  ISO image file, specify the OS location OEL 7(Linux 7) software.

Step:8 Set the Date and time, choose the timezone, region and city as Asia and Kolkata respectively.

Step:9 Select the base environment and adds on for selected environment, select all the check boxes for all the base environments.

 


Step:10 Specify the installation destination, here we can partition our storage either by  automatic partitioning or customized partitioning.

Step:11 Do the partition manually. Such as create the following mount points /boot , / , swap.

 

Step:12 This page asks for the confirmation, whether we can go with the configured partitions.

Step:13 Setup the password for the root user.

 

Step:14 We can create the user, I have created the user oracle and set up the password for the oracle user. Now we all set for the installation we can proceed further.

Step:15 Now we can login to the oracle user and get in to the VM.

Step:16 Choose the language as English(United states).

Step:17 Now we can use the Virtual Machine installed with Linux 7 OS and I checked my internet is working within  the VM by pinging google.com.

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