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Home Software Development Software Development Tutorials Unix Tutorial Install UNIX
 

Install UNIX

Priya Pedamkar
Article byPriya Pedamkar

Updated July 1, 2023

Install UNIX

 

 

Overview of Install Unix

UNIX is a multitasking system designed to run multiple tasks simultaneously, which can be used as a server and workstation. The system provides various features that facilitate using devices as files through a command-line interpretation. Entire UNIX operating system acts as a collection of various useful special programs combined with a special master control program termed as kernel, which handles lower-level tasks that include managing the file system, providing services to start and stop programs, and managing the system’s hardware. In this Article we will learn to Install Unix.

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Steps to Install UNIX

Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 64-bit (RHEL).

Step 1: First download VMware Player from http://www.vnware.com

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Step 2: Download RHEL from https://developers.redhat.com/products/rhel/download/ site.

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Step 3: Downloaded the RHEL 7 DVD ISO and attach it to the VM’s (Virtual Machine) virtual DVD drive.

Step 4: Let’s go ahead and power on the VM, and we are given a choice right away.

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Step 5: Do we want to Install Red Hat Linux Enterprise 7.0, test this media and then install and troubleshoot it.

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Step 6: If we select install Red Hat Enterprise 7. 0, we will jump right into the graphical Anaconda installer. If we select test this media and install, the system will perform a check of some integrity test of the installation media source.

Step 7: If we select Troubleshooting, we could install it in basic graphics mode.

graphics mod

Step 8: If we select boot into Rescue mod.

Rescue mod

Step 9: Run a memory test.

memory test

Step 10: Boot from the local drive.

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Step 11: Finally, we can hit the tab to enter some advanced boot options.

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Step 12: We can remove the .localboot 0xffff, and we could type text, and if we hit enter right now, it would boot us into the text-based Anaconda installer.

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Step 13: Now let’s go back to the main menu, hit Escape twice, select Install Red Hat Linux Enterprise 7.0, and enter the Anaconda graphical installer.

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Step 14: A whole bunch of stuff is going to fly by that’s all going to get logged into /temp/syslog.

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Step 15:  We look at it in a second.

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Step 16: So here we are in the graphical installer. Let’s go ahead and select our language.

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Step 17:  Now, we will be presented with the installation summary screen. It’s more like a menu of things we will have configured to install our system.

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Step 18: Now click on Networking and Host Name.

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Step 19: Then, we will start our network connection by sliding the slider into the ON position.

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Let us move to the next step of installing the Unix

Step 20: It’s going to grab an IP address from DHCP and go ahead and scroll down over here and give this machine a name. So we will go ahead and call it server1.domain.local.

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Step 21: Let’s go ahead and move our mouse up here and click done.

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Step 22: Then we will set our date and time.

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Step 23: So in this section, we could select our time zone. So let’s go ahead and move down to Chicago, where we happen to be right now, and then configure NTP.

Install Unix 23Step 24:  Let’s go ahead and click on the gears. The green icon indicates all of the currently configured NTP server and success. So here we can see that all four are working.

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Step 25:  So, let’s go ahead and click OK.

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Step 26: Then scroll up here and click done.

NTP server 2

NTP server 3

Step 27:  So, let’s move on to the software section. Here is where we can set our installation source.

installation source

Step 28: We will continue to use the DVD that we booted our system with, but if we want to, we could choose a different installation source.

installation source 1

let us move to the next step of installing the Unix

Step 29: For example, if we wanted to use any preferred installation method, we could select On the network.

We would pick HTTP as our protocol. We would go ahead and type in the URL that has our installation source available to us.

HTTP Server

Step 30: We could add additional yum repositories if we needed to install additional software.

HTTP Server 1

Step 31: Now let’s go ahead and go back to the auto-detected installation media, which is what we booted the system with and click done.

installation media

installation media 1

Step 32: Now click on the Software Selection menu, the currently selected installation is a minimal install.

installation media 2

installation media 3

Step 33: As you can see, we have several configuration options available to us. We select Server with GUI and click done.

installation media 4

Step 34: We have our installation destination in the system menu.

installation destination

Step 35: We can choose where we want RHEL to be installed, and we will use our local standard disk.

RHEL

Step 36: We can click Add a Disk if we want to.

RHEL1

Step 37: Use a more advanced disk configuration system, such as a Fiber Channel Disk or an iSCSI device.

Fiber Channel Disk

let us move to the next step of installing the Unix

Step 38: So let’s go ahead up here and click done one more time because we will stick with that local standard disk.

local standard disk

local standard disk 1

Step 39: Now, let’s go ahead and click on begin the installation.

local standard disk 2

Step 40: Now, in the background, the Anaconda installer will start doing its job installing the system, and we are left with the task of configuring a root password.

The root account is for privileged access to the system and the administrator.

configuring a root password

Step 41: Let’s go ahead and configure the root password first. Let’s move our mouse up to here and click the root password.

configuring a root password 1

Step 42: So go ahead and type in a very strong password for this user. When you are finished, go ahead and click done.

configuring a root password 2

Step 43: Now, let’s go ahead and add that second user for us to use. We click on User Creation.

user creation

Step 44: We will go ahead and name the user demo, make the user an administrator, and go ahead and type in a strong password. When we are done, let’s go ahead and click done.

user creation 1

Step 45: Now, while anaconda is installing, let’s take this opportunity to review the virtual consoles. Types in Control + Alt + F1, and that’s going to jump us over to the first virtual console. If we were in text mod. This would be our main installation window.

virtual console

Step 46:  We choose to do a graphical installation on virtual console 6. So go ahead and hop back over there with Control + Alt + F6.

virtual console 1

Step 47: On virtual console 3, that will be the Anaconda installer log.

virtual console 2

let us move to the next step of install the Unix

Step 48: If we move over to virtual console 4, that will be the storage logs for the installation.

virtual console 3

Step 49: Finally, virtual console 5 is the program logs.

virtual console 4

Step 50: on virtual console 2, that will be our root shell, so from here, we could do anything that we would like that we would normally get at the command line.

virtual console 5

Step 51: So, let’s go ahead and check our installation logs that. Type /tmp to change into that directory.

virtual console 6

Step 52: Now, we type the command to list the directory contents of this directory.

virtual console 7

Step 53: now, type more command, it’s read the file and put its contents on the screen. One page at a time. And the type syslog. It’s a file name. we can see the information that’s inside that file.

virtual console 8

Step 54: So jump back to graphical installation using the command Control + Alt + F6 and finish off our installation.

virtual console 9

Step 55: So final tasks are completed, and the system will ask for a reboot, so let’s go ahead and do that. Upon reboot

reboot

reboot 1

Step 56: let’s go ahead and accept the license agreement.

reboot 2

Step 57: Click done

reboot 3

Step 58: go ahead and click finish configuration.

finish configuration

Step 59: Now let’s go ahead and click forward to take the Kdump defaults

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Step 60: Let’s go ahead and click No, I prefer to register later. And click Finish.

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Step 61: We can use the mouse to click on the username.

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Step 62: Type in the password we entered for the user during installation.

Install UnixStep 63: We will have a working RHEL 7.0 machine ready to work on.

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