This procedure describes how to install the Oracle Linux
operating system from local or remote media. The procedure assumes that you are
booting the Oracle Linux installation media from one of the
following sources:
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Ensure that the installation media is available to boot.
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For an ISO image on a DVD,
insert the DVD into the local or remote DVD-ROM drive.
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For an ISO image on the
network, ensure that the ISO image is available and that
the Oracle ILOM Remote System Console Plus application has mounted
the ISO image.
For additional information about how to set up the installation
media, see Selecting the Boot Media Option.
For additional information about how to set up the installation media, see
Selecting the
Boot Media Option.
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Reset or power on the server.
For example, do one of the following:
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From the local server, press
the Power button (approximately 1 second) on the front panel of the
server to power off the server, then press the Power button again to
power on the server.
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From the Oracle ILOM web
interface, click Host Management → Power Control
, select Reset from the Select Action list box, then click
Save.
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From the Oracle ILOM CLI, type:
reset /System
The server begins the boot process and the BIOS screen appears.
Note -
The next event occurs very quickly; therefore, focused attention is
needed for the following steps. Watch carefully for these messages as
they appear on the screen for a brief time. You might want to enlarge
the size of your screen to eliminate scroll bars.
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In the BIOS screen, press the F8 key to specify a temporary boot device
for the Linux OS installation.
[Boot Pop Up Menu Selected] appears at the bottom of
the BIOS screen, and then the Please Select Boot Device menu appears. The
screen that appears will differ depending on whether you have the UEFI/BIOS
Boot Mode configured for Legacy BIOS or UEFI.
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For Legacy BIOS Boot Mode, a screen similar to the following
appears:
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For UEFI Boot Mode, a screen similar to the following
appears:
Note -
The Please Select Boot Device menu that appears in your installation
might differ depending on the type of disk controller and other
hardware, such as PCIe network cards, installed in your server.
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In the Please Select Boot Device menu, select the menu item according to
the Linux OS media installation method and the BIOS boot mode you elected to
use, then press Enter.
For example:
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If you elected to use the Oracle ILOM Remote System Console Plus
application delivery method in Legacy BIOS Boot Mode, select
USB:SUN from the Legacy BIOS screen.
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If you elected to use the Oracle ILOM Remote System Console Plus
application delivery method in UEFI Boot Mode, select
[UEFI]USB:SUN from the UEFI screen.
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The next screen displayed by the installation program depends on whether
you selected the Legacy BIOS Boot Mode or the UEFI Boot Mode.
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If you selected Legacy BIOS Boot Mode, the Welcome to Oracle Linux
Server boot screen appears.
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If you selected UEFI Boot Mode, the Booting Oracle Linux Server
boot screen appears.
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For the purposes of this installation, do one of the following:
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If you elected to do the installation in the Legacy BIOS Boot
Mode, accept the default and press Enter.
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If you elected to do the installation in the UEFI Boot Mode, press
Enter or allow the screen to timeout.
The Disc Found screen appears.
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If this is the first time that you are doing an install from this media,
you should consider selecting OK to test the media;
otherwise, select Skip and press Enter.
Note -
If you have used this disk to do installs before, select Skip;
otherwise select OK and test the disk.
The Oracle Linux 6 splash screen appears.
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Scroll to the bottom of the Oracle Linux 6 splash screen,
and click Next.
The "What language would you like to use during the installation process?"
screen appears.
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Select the appropriate language, and click Next.
The "Select the appropriate keyboard for the system" screen
appears.
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Select the appropriate keyboard configuration, and click
Next.
The "What type of devices will your installation involve?" screen
appears.
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In the above screen, select Specialized Storage Devices, then scroll to
the bottom of the screen, and click Next.
Note -
Selecting Specialized Storage Devices allows you to deselect the
Oracle SSM in the following screen. This makes the rest of this manual
installation easier to perform.
The "Please select the drive you'd like to install the operating system
on" screen appears.
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Select the storage drive on to which you want to install the operating
system, scroll to the bottom of the screen, and click
Next.
| Caution -
Do not select the Oracle SSM drive as the installation target. This
drive is reserved for the Oracle System Assistant and should never be
used as a boot or storage drive. For more information about the Oracle
SSM flash drive, see Installation
Target Options.
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The "Please name this computer" screen appears.
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Enter the host name, and click Next.
The Select Time Zone screen appears.
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Select the appropriate region and city and, click
Next.
Note -
If you want NTP Service, you can set that up after the operating
system is installed.
The Root Password screen appears.
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Enter root password, and click Next.
The "What type of installation would you like?" screen appears.
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In the above screen, select the appropriate option, and click
Next.
For example, if the storage drive on which you are installing operating
system is blank and you select Create Custom Layout, the "Please Select a
Device" screen appears.
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To create partitions, do the following:
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Scroll to the bottom of the screen, and click Create.
The Create Storage dialog appears.
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Select Standard Partition, and click Create.
The Add Partition dialog appears.
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In the dialog, set the Mount point to /boot and
leave the File System Type set to ext4 and the
Size (MB) set to 200.
Here is the updated Add Partition dialog.
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Click OK.
The partition is created.
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Repeat Step a through Step d above to create the following
additional partitions:
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/boot/efi
Note -
This partition can only be created if you
selected the UEFI Boot Mode. It is not supported
in Legacy BIOS Boot Mode.
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EFI System Partition
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200
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/
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ext4
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20000
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None
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swap
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16384
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The updated partitions screen appears.
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Click Next to apply the partitions.
The following dialog appears.
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Click Write changes to disk.
If there are no disk partitioning errors, the install boot loader screen
appears and you should proceed to Step 21. If
there are disk partitioning errors, proceed to Step 20.
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If there is a problem with the data format on the installation target
disk, the Automatic Partitioning Errors screen appears.
Note -
The following screen appears if you are installing the operating
system in UEFI Boot Mode, in which case GUID Partition Table (GPT)
formatted disks are required. If you encounter disk formatting errors
when you install the operating system in Legacy BIOS Boot Mode, a
similar screen would be displayed indicating the Master Boot Record
(MBR) formatted disks are required.
If the above screens appears, the disk to which you are attempting to
install Oracle Linux is formatted incorrectly and it needs to be
reformatted.
Note -
This error occurs if you attempt to do a UEFI Boot Mode OS install to
a storage drive that was previously used to store data in Legacy BIOS
format or vice versa. UEFI uses the GPT format, while Legacy BIOS
formats storage drives in the MBR format. The storage drives that ship
with the server are new, so they are unformatted. You will not encounter
this error when installing to an unformatted disk.
To recover and reformat the disk without aborting the install, click the
keyboard Back button on the install screen several times to return to the
initial Oracle Linux splash screen shown in Step 7 and perform these steps:
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To start the recovery shell, type
Ctrl+Alt+F2.
The shell appears.
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To reformat the disk in GPT format or MBR format as appropriate
for this installation, enter the shell commands as shown on the
following screen:
anaconda root@localhost /]# parted /dev/sda
GNU Parted 2.1
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type ???help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) p
Model: HITACHI H106030SDSUN300G (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 300GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos (or gpt for Legacy BIOS Boot Mode)
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 21.5GB 21.5GB primary ext2
(parted) mklabel
New disk label type? gpt (or msdos for Legacy BIOS Boot Mode)
Warning: The existing disk label on /dev/sda will be destroyed and all data will be lost.
Do you want to continue?
Yes/No? yes
(parted) p
Model: HITACHI H106030SDSUN300G (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 300GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
(parted) g
Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab.
anaconda root@localhost /]#
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Type Ctrl+Alt+F6 to return to the graphical
installation screen and continue the installation from the point of
the Oracle Linux splash screen (go to Step 7).
Note -
In most cases the values that you entered for this
installation have been saved, so you will not have to reenter
them.
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In the install boot loader screen, select Install boot loader on
/dev/sda1, and click Next.
The "Select server software to install" screen appears.
While Basic Server is the default server software install, you can
optionally select a different set of software. Additionally, at the bottom
of this screen you can select Customize Now to do a custom install of the
selected software.
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For the purposes of this sample installation, accept the Basic Server
default and click Next.
The Starting Installation Process screen appears.
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Wait until the Oracle Linux OS installation completes.
When the installation completes, the following screen appears.
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To reboot the Oracle Linux installation, click Reboot.
The server reboots and the BIOS screen appears.
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To access the BIOS Setup Utility so that you can set the server to boot
from the operating system you just installed, press the F2 key.
A BIOS Setup Utility screen appears with the Boot Menu selected. The BIOS
screen displayed and the actions required to proceed with installation
depend on the UEFI/BIOS Boot Mode you selected for installing the OS.
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If you installed the OS in Legacy BIOS Boot Mode, proceed to
Step 26.
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If you installed the OS in UEFI Boot Mode, proceed to Step 27.
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If you installed the OS in Legacy BIOS Boot Mode, perform these steps and
proceed to Step 28.
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In the BIOS Setup Utility screen shown below, use the down arrow
key to select [USB:SUN] under the Legacy Boot Option Priority field,
and press Enter.
Note -
The BIOS Boot screen that appears for your installation might
differ depending on the type of disk controller and other
hardware, such as PCIe network cards, installed in your
server.
The Boot Option #1 dialog appears.
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Select [SAS:PCIE4:E01S06-43BB92B5 HITACHI H109030SESUN30], and
press Enter.
[SAS:PCIE4:E01S06-43BB92B5 HITACHI H109030SESUN30] moves to the
top position.
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Press the F10 key to save the change and exit the BIOS Setup
Utility, then proceed to Step 28.
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If you installed the OS in UEFI Boot Mode, perform these steps:
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In the BIOS Setup Utility screen shown below, verify that [Oracle
Linux Server (HITACHI H109030SESUN300GA606)] is listed as the first
option under UEFI Boot Option Priority field.
Note -
The BIOS Boot screen that appears for your installation might
differ depending on the type of disk controller and other
hardware, such as PCIe network cards, installed in your
server.
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Press the F10 key to exit the BIOS Setup Utility.
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Wait while the reboot continues.
The following kernel screen appears.
Press any key to enter the menu
Booting Oracle Linux Server Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek.x86_64) in 2 seconds...
The Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3 for Linux is the
default kernel.
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If you do not want to change the default Kernel,
proceed to Step 31; otherwise, proceed to Step 30.
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(Optional) If you are installing Oracle Linux 6.6 and you want to switch
to the Red Hat compatible kernel, do the following.
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Press any character key.
The GNU GRUB screen appears.
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For the Red Hat compatible kernel, select the second menu option,
then press Enter.
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After completing the Oracle Linux installation and rebooting
the server with the desired Linux kernel, proceed to Post Installation
Tasks for Oracle Linux 6.6, or 7.0 OS.