BUILD YOUR OWN LINUX BOX USING VMWARE
1. Install the VMWARE WORKSTATION ( Not Covered in this post ).
2. Create a New Virtual machine
3. Click on Create a New Virtual Machine
4. Click Next. Click on the Browse Button and Select your Operating system
click Next
5. Select the location & name of your VM
click Next
6. Allocate Space for your VM.
Click Next
7. Finalize your options
To customize choose Customize Hardware
After you customize click close.
Click Finish
8. Enterprise Linux Screen appears
Press Enter
Linux Server Boots & you get the welcome screen
toggle your keys and select skip
Press enter
At any point if you would like to return to your windows select ctrl+alt
9. Installation of Linux
Click Next
Select Yes
when the above screen pops up use the drop down list and select "Create Custom Layout"
Select Next
Click New Buttoon
Sample File System Layout
/ - 9GB
/tmp -2GB
/u01 - 10GB
/data-20GB
Swap - Depends on your Memory Allocated
Click Next
Click Next
If you want the SYSTEM to assign IPADDRESS go for DHCP
Click Next
Click Next
Enter the Root Password
Click Next
If you would like to customize by adding some package/features to your os please select the Customize Now radio button and click Next
Click Next
Select each and every option on your left side. On your right side you get the rpm packages which will install the components that are required for your OS.
Click Optional Packages & select your optional packages.
Optional : If you want to install oracle database the below options are useful
If you are building an Oracle Box then the above options are very much useful. After selecting all the required rpms & components click close.
Click Next
Click Next
Click Next
Click Continue & Select the CD's when prompted.
When you get this screen you should select the second disc.
Double click the CD button in Tray being displayed.
click Browse
Click ok
Note : CD button should show green button as it is seen in the above screenshot. Click ok
Similarly when it prompts for each & every CD use the same method.
Perform similar steps as you did for CD 2.
Perform similar steps as you did for CD 2.
Click Reboot
Click Forward
Click Forward
Disable the Firewall
Click Yes
Disable the SELinux
Click Forward & Yes
Click Forward
Click Forward
Create Users if Required
Click Forward
Click Finish
Click ok to Reboot the System
Right Click & open Terminal
Modify the Hostname
Click Network
Go to DNS tab and enter the Hotsname
Click Yes to save the Settings
Restart the Network
Open a New Terminal to view the hostname
Install VM Ware Tools for Copying files from local to Server, Changing the Display Settings.
VMWARE tools gets mounted
Copy VMWare Tools to Tmp and extract and install
tar -xvf filename
Install VMWare tools
./vmware-install.pl
Just press enter and go on until you get the below.
Note : If you get the same message for gcc then give no and proceed
Select the Screen Resolution
Install successful.
Reboot the machine
init 6 as root user to reboot.
Login to the Server
Server Install successful..
How to Use Putty like SSH Client to connect from windows.
1. Download Putty
2. go to Server /sbin/ifconfig -a
ipaddress is the one which is present in eth0, eth0 being the network interface
3. Open your Putty and just enter the ip address and you can connect
Finally we have built a linux server.
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