Installing a Virtual Red Hat 6.2 Server

HOW TO Install Redhat 6.2 onto a Virtual machine ESX

 1.       Log to your ESX server using your vSphere or your vCenter

        Right click on the ESX Host, and click on “New Virtual Machine”

 

 

2.       Select “Typical” and click [Next>]

 

 

3.   Give it Name, for example: “Redhat 6.2”, and click [Next>]

 

4.    Select the [Datastore], where you want your VM to be installed, and click [Next>]

    Note: You can see I have a single [Datastore]

5.    Chose which template you need, click on [Next>]

 

    Note: by default Vmware has pre-selected “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (64-bit” This

    is what we are installing.

6.    Size the disk for your VM, I am going to give my VM 40GB disk and click [Next>]

 

 

7.     Tick the box “Edit the virtual machine settings before completion” and click [Continue]

 

 

8.    Click on [Options], then on “Boot Options”, add 15 seconds to “Power On Boot Delay”, tick the box “Force BIOS Setup” and click [Finish]

 

9.     Click on the name of your Virtual machine “Redhat 6.2”, then click on [Console]

 

 

10.    Click on the play icon where it says “Power On”. This will start up your VM.

 

 

Note: Once your machine has been powered on, it will display the BIOS screen.

You need to select the “Boot” option and make the CDROM the first boot option.

 

 

11.    At the top of your screen, just below the menu, click on the “CDROM” icon and Click on “Connect to ISO image on local disk…”

 

 

12.   Select the Redhat 6.2 ISO image and click [Open]

 

 

13.   Go back to the BIOS scree, press <F10>

 

 

14.   You will see the screen below, just hit [ENTER]

 

 

15.  Your Virtual Machine will boot off  the Red Hat 6.2 ISO,  hit [ENTER]

 

 

16.   The screen below shows Linux starting up the install and detecting your hardware.

 

 

17.   Select [Skip] and hit [ENTER]

 

 

18.   The graphical installation wizard will start, click [Next]

 

 

19.   Select your language and click [Next]

 

 

20.   Select your keyboard layout and click [Next]

 

21.       Select “Basic Storage Devices” and click [Next]

 

 

22       Click on [Yes, discard any data]

 

23.       Type in your server name i.e “redhat62” and click [Next]

 

24.       Select you Country/Region and click [Next]

 

25.       Type in the root password (you will need this password to logon as root) and click [Next]

 

26.       Select “Use All Space” and click [Next]

 

27.       Click on [Write changes to disk]

 

28.   Your default partition layout will be written to disk, you should see a screen similar to the one below

 

29.       Select “Basic Server” and click [Next]

 

30.  Red Hat will work out the packages to install and its dependencies

 

31.   Once packages and dependencies have been worked out Red Hat will begin copying          

         packages to disk.

 

32.       Once all packages have been copied to the VM disk, you will see the screen below

 

33.       Remove the ISO mounted as CDROM

 

34.       Click [Yes]

 

35.       Click on [OK]

 

36.       Now you can click on [Reboot]

 

37.       Re Hat will start the reboot process, see below

 

 

38.       Once system starts to boot, you will see a screen similar to the one below

 

39.       Once Re Hat is fully up and running, you will be presented with a login screen.

Type in

      User Name: root
      Password: the one you set previously for the root user.

 

That is it guys, at this point your Red Hat is fully installed, up and running.

 

In the next few posts I will show you how to setup the network, how to update your system etc.

 

Hope you enjoy this post

 

Many thanks for reading it

 

By Renato Oliveira