Orapub: Step by step redhat 5.6 installation on Vmware workstation

Step 1: Open the vmware workstation console File àNew à Virtual Machine

Choose Typical à Next

Step 2: select your installer disc image file from your local drive

Step 3: Give the details and click NEXT

Step 4: Select your virtual machine (vmx) file store location

Step 5: Better to Take 80 GB of Hard disk size for Linux O/S and click NEXT.

Step 6: Don’t click on “Finish” Button . Click on the “Customize Hardware…” Button for checking or reconfiguration purpose.

Step 7: Here you can change your configurations

· If you want, Increase the Memory(RAM) size to 2048 MB or above by clicking on memory option from left pane window and then change.

· Click on “New CD/DVD(IDE)” option, check the ISO image file path. If not there choose the ISO image (Linux software) pathe by clicking on the BROWSE button.

· Click on the “Network Adapter” option, select “Bridged” option.

· Now click on OK button at bottom.

· Now you can find the virtual machine name “Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 64-bit” which is given in starting steps.

Step 8: Power on the virtual machine

Step 9: select Skip and press Enter.

Step 10: Next

Step 11: Next

Step 12: Next

Step 13: Skip

Step 14: select Yes

Step 15:

· Select “Create Custom Layout” option from the drop down list.

· Uncheck “Review and modify partitioning layout”

· and then click NEXT

Step 16: Delete all the Partitions if you have any by clicking the DELETE button.

Step 17: Then create new partitions list as per need by clicking the NEW button.

Step 18: better to take the partitions like this

/(Root) -- 10000

/boot -- 6000

/tmp -- 6000

/home -- 10000

/swap -- (Double of your RAM size)

/u01 -- 15000

/u02 -- 15000

/u03 -- 10000

· To create these above new partitions Click on NEW button select or type (if not there) mount point from the drop down and give the size and click on OK button.

· Follow below steps shown in images.