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Sun Server X4-4 Installation Guide for Linux Operating Systems

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Updated: October 2015
 
 

Install Oracle Linux Manually

Use this procedure to install the Oracle Linux OS without the use of Oracle System Assistant.

Before You Begin

  1. Power on or reboot the server.

    If you are using the remote installation method, you can power on or reboot the server through Oracle ILOM.

    BIOS messages appear.


    Note -  BIOS messages, including the BIOS menu selection list, can go by quickly. If you miss the messages, power cycle the server and hold down the F8 key during boot until the BBS Popup menu appears.

    image:A screen capture showing the BIOS menu options
  2. Watch the screen until you see a list of selections and then press F8 to select "BBS Popup."

    After a delay, a "select boot device" menu appears with a list of possible boot devices.

  3. Select a boot device from the list, as follows:
    • Local installation: Insert the Linux distribution media into the server's CD/DVD drive, select it from the list of devices and press Enter.

    • Remote installation: Select the client's remotely mounted virtual CD/DVD drive and press Enter.

    Control passes to the OS installation program on the media.

  4. Identify logical and physical network interface names. Do the following:
    1. At the boot prompt type: linux rescue and then press Enter.

      The Choose a Language screen appears.

    2. In the Choose a Language screen, select the appropriate language, and click OK.

      The Keyboard Type screen appears.

    3. In the Keyboard Type screen, select the appropriate configuration, and then click OK.

      The Setup Network screen appears.

    4. In the Setup Network screen, click No.

      The Rescue screen appears.

    5. In the Rescue screen, click Skip.

      The user shell appears.

    6. At the command prompt (#) in the user shell, type the following command to display all network interfaces, and then press Enter.
      # ifconfig -a

      The output of the Linux named network interfaces appear.

      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.

    7. To view the output of each network interface, type the following at the command prompt, and then press Enter:
      # ifconfig eth#

      where eth# is the interface number.

      For example, if you type:

      # ifconfig eth0

      the output for eth0 appears:

      eth0   Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:4F:8D:52:BE
                inet addr:10.192.92.192  Bcast:10.192.92.255  Mask:255.255.254.0
                inet6 addr: fe80::214:4fff:fe8d:52be/64 Scope:Link
                UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
                RX packets:14461296 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
                TX packets:1061312 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
                collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
                RX bytes:1282625453 (1.1 GiB)  TX bytes:118834056 (113.3 MiB)
                Interrupt:54 Base address:0xc000 
      • The eth0 entry in the first column refers to the Oracle Linux logical named interface. This first column in the output identifies the logical names Oracle Linux or RHEL assigned to the network interface.
      • The 00:14:4F:8D:52:BE entry in the second column (first row) refers to the physical MAC address of the network port.
    8. Record the logical network interface name with the physical port MAC address for future reference. You need to refer to this record when configuring the network interfaces during the Oracle Linux or RHEL OS installation.
  5. When you are done, reboot the server and restart the OS installation program using the following command:
    # reboot
  6. Repeat steps 2 and 3 to select the boot device that contains the OS media. Then proceed to step 5.
  7. Do one of the following at the boot prompt, depending on which type of interface you want to use:
    • For Text mode, type the following command from the boot prompt:

      boot: linux text

    • For Graphical mode, press Enter at the boot prompt.
  8. To complete the installation, refer to the version-specific installation article listed at the beginning of this procedure.

    Note -  If you already have an operating system besides Linux installed (for example, the Oracle Solaris OS), it appears as a partition during the installation process. If you choose to install Oracle Linux on that partition, it overwrites the previous OS. If you wish to preserve the partition, you must install Oracle Linux on a different partition.

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