#RED HAT LINUX ISO IMAGE FOR VMWARE INSTALL#
IMPORTANT!!! The default installation of RHEL does not include GCC, Make or the header files necessary to compile and install VMware Tools. Pick your locale, set your root password, when prompted to choose the kind of installation you would like, select "Use All Space" and press "Write changes to disk".Ĩ. Once again, you're glad to be running this OS in a VM aren't you!ħ. Choose Basic Storage Devices, and press Next and you will see another warning. The next set of screens help you configure your preferences and include a warning about running pre-released software that is not intended for production use! No problemo…. What better environment to test a new OS than in a virtual machine? Go ahead and "Install Anyway".Ħ. YOU MUST SKIP THIS STEP! After testing the media, I was unable to continue, so I recommend that you skip this and if it fails to install, download another copy and manually compare the MD5.ĥ.
The fourth installation screen offers to test the media. The next set of screens prompt you to choose your language, keyboard type and installation method (Choose "Local CD/DVD").Ĥ. Choose to Install or Upgrade an existing system. When the VM boots it display the following Welcome Screen. You can press next repeatedly in the new VM wizard and take the rest of the defaults, although you may want to increase the size of the Virtual Disk you are using, depending on your application plans.ģ. Press next and select Guest Operating System: Linux - Version: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 64-bit (assuming that you are installing the x86_64 version of RHEL).Ģ. iso file that you have downloaded – you will see a warning that this operating system could not be detected (we will fix this shortly). Create a new Virtual Machine using Easy Install. Here a few tips to help you get up and running quickly:ġ. (See the previous post below if you aren't running the beta already!) The RHEL 6 Beta is now available from RedHat ( ) of course we immediately downloaded it to give it a try! It works reasonably well in the Workstation 7.1 beta but we would appreciate your help in thoroughly testing this.
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