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Guided Exercise: Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

In this exercise, you will reinstall one of your servers with a minimal installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Outcomes

You should be able to manually install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

On the workstation machine, log in as the student user with student as the password.

On the workstation machine, run the lab installing-install start command. This command runs a start script to determine whether the servera machine is reachable on the network. It also adds a new entry in the GRUB2 menu to boot servera into the installation media.

[student@workstation ~]$ lab installing-install start

Procedure 12.1. Instructions

  1. Access the servera console and reboot the system into the installation media.

    1. Locate the icon for the servera console in your classroom environment. Open the console.

    2. To reboot, send a Ctrl+Alt+Del to your system using the relevant keyboard, virtual, or menu entry.

    3. When the boot loader menu appears, select Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

    4. Wait for the language selection window.

  2. Keep the language selected by default and click Continue.

  3. Use automatic partitioning on the /dev/vda disk.

    1. Click Installation Destination.

    2. Click the first disk, vda, to select it. Click Done to use the default option of automatic partitioning.

    3. In the Installation Options window, click Reclaim space. Because the /dev/vda disk already has partitions and file systems from the previous installation, this selection allows you to wipe the disk for the new installation. In the Reclaim Disk Space window, click Delete all, and then click Reclaim space.

  4. Set the server host name to servera.lab.example.com and verify the configuration of the network interface.

    1. Click Network & Host Name.

    2. In the Host Name field, enter servera.lab.example.com, and then click Apply.

    3. Click Configure and then click the IPv4 Settings tab.

    4. Confirm that the network parameters are correct. The IP address is 172.25.250.10, the netmask is 24, and the gateway and the name server are each set to 172.25.250.254. Click Save.

    5. Confirm that the network interface is enabled by setting ON/OFF to ON.

    6. Click Done.

  5. Set the Installation Source field to http://content.example.com/rhel8.2/x86_64/dvd.

    1. Click Installation Source.

    2. Select On the network.

    3. In the http:// field, type content.example.com/rhel8.2/x86_64/dvd

    4. Click Done.

  6. Select the software required to run a minimal installation.

    1. Click Software Selection.

    2. Select Minimal Install from the Base Environment list.

    3. Click Done.

  7. Configure the system's purpose.

    1. Click Connect to Red Hat.

    2. Select Purpose.

    3. Select the role Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server.

    4. Select an SLA level of Self-Support.

    5. Select the usage Development/Test.

    6. Do not change any other parameter. Click Done.

  8. Click Begin Installation.

  9. While the installation progresses, set the password for root to redhat.

    1. Click Root Password.

    2. Enter redhat in the Root Password field.

    3. Enter redhat in the Confirm field.

    4. The password is weak so you must click Done twice.

  10. While the installation progresses, add the student user.

    1. Click User Creation.

    2. Enter student in the Full Name field.

    3. Check Make this user administrator so student can use sudo to run commands as root.

    4. Enter student in the Password field.

    5. Enter student in the Confirm password field.

    6. The password is weak so you must click Done twice.

  11. When the installation is complete, click Reboot.

  12. When the system displays the login prompt, log in as student with a password of student.

Finish

Use the appropriate method for your classroom environment to reset your servera machine.

This concludes the guided exercise.

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