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Lab: Installing or Upgrading to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Performance Checklist

In this lab, you will install a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 system.

Outcomes

You should be able to install RHEL 8 from ISO installation media and customize as required.

The installation media ISO has already been attached to serverc.

Log in to workstation as student using student as the password.

On workstation, run the lab install-review start command. 

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

Note

If you performed the RHEL 8 installation guided exercise earlier in the chapter, reset the serverc virtual machine back to default.

  1. Locate the icon for the serverc console, as appropriate for your classroom environment. Power on serverc and open the console for it. The server is uninstalled, and is preconfigured to boot from a virtual installation boot ISO.

  2. From the installation media boot menu, use the arrow keys to select Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0.

  3. Select an appropriate language from those available, and then click Continue.

  4. Configure the system disk using LVM with a / (root) volume of 10 GiB, /boot of 1 GiB, and /home using the remaining free space.

    1. Click Installation Destination.

    2. Select Custom, and then click Done. This launches the Manual Partitioning dialog box.

    3. Ensure the partition scheme is set to LVM.

    4. Click Click here to create them automatically to generate the standard set of mount points.

    5. Select the / mount point, and change the Desired Capacity to 10 GiB.

    6. The /boot mount point should not require any changes.

    7. Click + to add a mount point. Enter /home for Mount Point or select it from the list. Leave Desired Capacity blank and the remaining free space should be allocated to it. Click Add mount point.

    8. Click Done to display the Summary of Changes dialog box. Click Accept Changes.

  5. Set the server host name to serverc.lab.example.com, and enable and configure the only network interface. Add the additional search domain example.net.

    Use the following information:

    Field Value
    IP Address172.25.250.12
    Netmask255.255.255.0
    Gateway172.25.250.254
    DNS server172.25.250.254
    Search Domainexample.net
    Hostnameserverc.lab.example.com

    1. Click Network & Host Name.

    2. In the Host Name field enter serverc.lab.example.com.

    3. Click Apply.

    4. Click Configure, then select the IPv4 Settings tab.

    5. Select Manual.

    6. In the Address field enter 172.25.250.12.

    7. In the Netmask field enter 255.255.255.0.

    8. In the Gateway field enter 172.25.250.254.

    9. In the DNS servers: field enter 172.25.250.254.

    10. Add example.net in the Search domains field.

    11. Click Save.

    12. Enable the network interface by setting ON/OFF to ON.

    13. Click Done.

  6. Set the Installation Source to http://content.example.com/rhel8.0/x86_64/dvd.

    1. Click Installation Source.

    2. In the http:// field enter content.example.com/rhel8.0/x86_64/dvd.

    3. Click Done.

  7. Select the software required to run a graphical desktop with a basic development environment.

    1. Click Software Selection.

    2. Select Workstation from the Base Environment list.

    3. Select Development Tools from the Add-ons list.

    4. Click Done.

  8. Configure the system's purpose as a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation, with Self-support, for development usage.

    1. Click System Purpose.

    2. Select a role of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation.

    3. Select an SLA level of Self-Support.

    4. Select a usage of Development/Test.

    5. Click Done.

  9. Click Begin Installation.

  10. 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 will need to click Done twice.

  11. While the installation progresses, add the lab administrative user with a password of redhat.

    1. Click User Creation.

    2. Enter lab in the Full Name field.

    3. Select Make this user administrator.

    4. Enter redhat in the Password field.

    5. Enter redhat in the Confirm field.

    6. The password is weak so you will need to click Done twice.

  12. When the installation is complete, click Reboot.

  13. Ensure the system boots from the local drive.

    1. If the system boots from the installation media again, press Esc, and then type local and press Enter. Alternatively, select Troubleshooting and Boot from local drive.

  14. Accept the End User License Agreement (EULA), then click Continue.

    1. Click License Information.

    2. Select I accept the license agreement.

    3. Click Done.

    4. Click Finish Configuration.

  15. When the system displays the login prompt, log in as lab with a password of redhat.

Finish

On workstation, run lab install-review finish to clean up any resources created for this exercise. 

[student@workstation ~]$ lab install-review finish

This concludes the lab.

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