Introduction to Linux Installation
Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant
Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant Task Overview
Obtaining Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant
Preliminary Tasks Before Installing An OS
How to Erase Your Boot Hard Disk
Selecting a Media Delivery Method
Local Installation By Accessing the Console Using the Serial or Video Port
How to Configure the Serial Port
Remote Installation By Accessing the Console Using ILOM
How to Access the Server Console Using the Server's ILOM Web Interface
How to Access the Server Console Using the Server's ILOM CLI Interface
Installing Oracle Linux from Distribution Media
How to Download Oracle Linux Media
How to Install Oracle Linux From Distribution Media
How to Update the Oracle Linux Operating System
Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Installing RHEL From Distribution Media
How to Download RHEL Media Kits
How to Install RHEL From Distribution Media
How to Update the RHEL Operating System
How to Update the RHEL Drivers
Installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Installing SLES From Distribution Media
How to Download SLES Media Kits
How to Install SLES From Distribution Media
How to Update the SLES Operating System
How to Update the SLES Drivers
Configuring a Linux Server to Support PXE Installation
How to Install and Configure a DHCP Server for PXE
How to Install Portmap on Your PXE Server
How to Configure the TFTP Service on Your PXE Server
How to Configure PXELINUX on Your PXE Server
How to Configure the NFS Service on Your PXE Server
How to Disable the Firewall for SUSE Linux
How to Disable the Firewall for Oracle or Red Hat Enterprise Linux
How to Create a PXE Installation Image for Oracle Linux
How to Create a PXE Installation Image for RHEL
How to Create a PXE Installation Image for SLES
How to Create a PXE Installation Image for Oracle VM
How to Install Linux From a PXE Server
Identifying Logical and Physical Network Interface Names for Linux OS Configuration
How to Identify Installed Network Ports
How to Identify Logical and Physical Network Interface Names While Installing SLES
During installation and configuration of the Oracle or Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS, you reach a point where you must enter the logical and physical names (MAC addresses) of the network interfaces.
This section explains how to launch a user shell during the Linux configuration to obtain the logical and physical network interface names that you need to continue with the configuration.
The Choose a Language screen appears.
The Keyboard Type screen appears.
The Setup Network screen appears.
The Rescue screen appears.
The user shell appears.
# ifconfig -a
The output of the Linux named network interfaces appear. See the following sample output as an example.
If you have multiple network interfaces and the output of interfaces scrolls off the top of the screen, you can display the output per interface.
# ifconfig eth#
where eth# is the interface number. For example, if you type:
# ifconfig eth0
The output for eth0 appears:
In the sample output above:
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4F:0C:A1:F2 inet addr:192.168.2.103 Bcast:192.168.2.255