Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® is the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform. It’s an open source operating system (OS). It’s the foundation from which you can scale existing apps—and roll out emerging technologies—across bare-metal, virtual, container, and all types of cloud environments.
Note : This blog post is pretty old and I’m showing you how to install Redhat Enterprise Linux 6The steps for RHEL 7 should be similar, but there will be few differences in the UI, be aware of it :)
This is a quick tutorial on how to properly install RedHat on Virtualbox. If you are going to study RedHat, you’d need a properly installed system to work on. You could use RedHat in Virtualbox. I recommend using virtualbox rather than installing as a main operating system. Because if something goes wrong, you can deal with it easily.
There is a slight confusion among most people about the price of the RedHat operating system. Like, Linux is opensource but why are they charging for it, and can I use RedHat without having a licence.? Actually, RedHat is free, but you are paying for the support from them. So, in a production environment, you might wanna subscribe, but, for now, we don’t need a certificate/licence.
Another option is to use CentOs, which is totally free and you get support from the community. You might wanna try that.. ?
That’s enough intro, let’s get started.
First of all you need to download the iso image for RedHat from RedHat servers. Go HERE. You may have to create an account.Now you need to download the VirtualBox software from : HEREInstall it (obviously), and open it. Place the downloaded iso somewhere you can access (like in your desktop)
Open VirtualBox and Click on new, then give a name for your guest os. You could give a name you like, I’d give it “RedHat. Choose the operating system from the list. (I chose RedHat 64bit)
Now, click next and in the next screen you’d be asked to set the amount of ram you wish to give. I’d give it 1GB of ram. (This solely depends on the amount of ram available on your system)
Click next and then it will ask if you want to create a new harddisk, click yes. and then create. Then it will ask you to choose a hard-disk type. Select vdi, it works fine. and click next.
On the next screen you should choose dynamically allocated. On the next screen It will ask you to set the size of the hard disk. 8GB is enough. Click create.
Now, click on the virtual machine you just created and click start. Now it will ask you to point to the location where you put the iso of redhat. Browse to the iso and click open
Now, you will be presented with a boot menu. Press enter and os will boot up. On the next screen, you will see a blue screen. Press tab and skip the media test. It’s used to check if the installation media is faulty or not.
On the next screen onwards, it is self explanatory, click next. Keep pressing next until you reach a window asking you to discard your data/keep data. Click on “Yes, discard any data”
NOTE: When you click on the VirtualMachine, your mouse pointer will be trapped in the guest OS. Press the
Right Control
button to release the mouse pointer from the guest os
Click next, and then choose the Time Zone, Then choose an admin(root) password. It is important that you should not forget this password. Click next
Here comes the tricky part. Pay attention..!
Choose the last option (Create custom Layout)
We have to create two partitions in here. We have 8GB free space. Click on create, and choose standard partition and click create.
Press OK
We need to create one more partition - The swap partition. This is important. DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP.Due to some bug or unknown reason, if you don’t create a swap partition, then your OS won’t boot. It will give a kernel panic message. So, click on the free space and click create. Choose standard partition and then choose the file system as “swap” and give a size of 100MB. (You can give as much swap as you want, BUT, YOU SHOULD LEAVE AT LEAST 500MB FREE SPACE. We need this space for later assignments)
Now click on next » format » write changes to disk. After the disk has been formated, click next.
This is another important step. Choose basic server, and at the bottom, click on Customize now and click next.
From the list of available packages, click on Desktops and from the list appeared on the right, Tick everything except KDE-Desktop.(You can install KDE too, which will install lots of kde applications. We won’t be using kde, so I’d just skip that one and install all the other packages. ) Click on next.
The installation has started and you will have to wait for some time and once your installation is finished, click on reboot, and you’re done.!If you face any problems, please leave a comment. I’ll try my best to help.
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Red Hat Linux 6 Overview
For Linux lovers, Red Hat is the most popular and stable release with all the necessary options to handle your server and the computer. A very friendly and intuitive environment users can easily get their hands on this version of Linux. Among all the other releases of Red Hat Linux Linux 6.6 most reliable and secure Linux release. It is specifically designed for mission critical systems with all the industry standards. In addition, it delivers a very high-end environment for either cloud or physical. This powerful release also focuses on the virtualization technology to fulfill all the requirements for the business.
Moreover, some improvements are also made in this release including kernel locking for more efficient consumption of system and CPU resources. It is a very lightweight environment for both server and desktop systems. There is a wide range of applications are present to increase the usability factor. Some of the applications included in this release are Mozilla Firefox, LibreOffice, Mozilla Thunderbird, GIMP, K3B, Inkscape, etc. Furthermore, it also supports MariaDBm PostgreSQL, OpenSSH, OpenJDK, OpenSSL, Samba, PostFix, Pearl, Python, PHP, Qt, and SystemMD in the server edition.
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Features of Red Hat Linux 6
Some of the features of RHEL 6.6 are:
- Lightweight and a very friendly environment
- Stable and reliable release of Red Hat
- Supports Virtualization along with Cloud
- Designed for mission critical systems
- Improved Kernel locking for efficient CPU consumption
- Different open source applications
- Perfect environment for desktop and server
- Many other advanced options and features
System Requirements for Red Hat Linux 6
Before you download Red Hat Linux, make sure that your system meets the given requirements
- Free Disk Space: Minimum 10 Gb of free disk space required
- Installed Memory: 2 GB of minimum RAM Required
- Processor: Intel Pentium 4 or higher
Red Hat Linux 6 Free Download
Click on the below link to download the standalone setup of Red Hat Linux 6 for x86-64 architecture. It is the most reliable and efficient release of Red Hat Linux.
x86_64
Boot ISO