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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

Creating a Virtual Disk

Selecting a Media Delivery Method

Local Installation By Accessing the Console Using the Serial or Video Port

Remote Installation By Accessing the Console Using ILOM

Installing Oracle Linux

Installing Oracle Linux from Distribution Media

Updating Oracle Linux

Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Installing RHEL From Distribution Media

Updating RHEL

Installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Installing SLES From Distribution Media

Updating SLES

Configuring a Linux Server to Support PXE Installation

Overview of PXE

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

Disabling the Firewall

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 Oracle Linux or RHEL

How to Identify Logical and Physical Network Interface Names While Installing SLES

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Introduction to Linux Installation

This document provides instructions for installing Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) on your server. The following topics are included:

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Describes how to use the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant, a tool that helps you perform a variety of deployment and recovery tasks on your Sun x64 server.
Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant
Describes how to erase an existing hard disk partition and create a virtual disk on which to install an operating system.
Preliminary Tasks Before Installing An OS
Describes how to install Oracle Linux on your server.
Installing Oracle Linux
Describes how to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux on your server.
Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Describes how to install SUSE Linux on your server.
Installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Describes how to configure a Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) server on a Linux system and use it to install Linux on your servers.
Configuring a Linux Server to Support PXE Installation
Describes how to find the logical name (assigned by the OS) and the physical name (MAC address) of each network interface.
Identifying Logical and Physical Network Interface Names for Linux OS Configuration
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