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Step by step redhat 5.6 installation on VMware

workstation

Mohamed Azar

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Step 1: Open the vmware workstation console File New Virtual Machine

Choose Typical Next

Step 2: select your installer disc image file from your local drive


Step 3:

Step 4: Select your virtual machine (vmx) file store location


Step 5: size of your total OS

Step 6: If you want to customize your hardware, please select customize option


Step 7: After successfully configured virtual settings, please select one again edit virtual machine

settings because of autoinst.iso file may created on CD/DVD. Here the problem is you cann’t partition

your os, it will automatically install linux os. Please delete this one.



Step 8: Power on the virtual machine

Note : If OS not automatically boot, It show only block window, go F2 option when you’re power on the

machine, select CD/DVD in boot option and save it, run it again,it should boot your Linux

Step 9: select Skip


Step 10: Next

Step 11: Next


Step 12: Next

Step 13: Skip


Step 14: select Yes

Step 15: If you want to modify your partition, Tick the Review option on bottom of the this window


Step 16:

Step 17: this is the partition, its comes default,If you don’t want LVM and you want to modify partition,

just delete all the partition.


Step 18: After deleted

Step 19: you want to need partition, select new and modify your Hard disk partition size what ever your

size want, just example here

I give some example for creation, you should give an appropriate size for /, /var , /usr/local, /opt and

/home

Or if you don’t want separate partition like above, I just want to give the full size for root mount point. It

will consider all the partition as a root mount point not separately.

Note:

Root mount point / 5GB need (May be less,but give this size for root)

/usr partition should need more than 3GB, so select 5GB for /usr

/boot 100MB


/tmp – 1024MB


/usr – 5GB

/u01 – If you want to create mount point


Swap space


Step 20 :Next


Step 21: Configure network later if you want to do, you can configure now

Step 22: select timezone


Step 23: root password

Step 24: If you want to customize software, you can select option customize now or later


Step 25:

Step 26:

Step 27: Installation Done reboot the machine


Step 28:






Successfully done and reboot the machine

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