Install Oracle Enterprise Linux 7.4

Overview

Installation of Oracle Enterprise Linux 7.4.

The installation media was the ISO image, V921569-01.iso, which was downloaded from Oracle Software Delivery Cloud.

With the installation media in the CD-ROM drive, the server (or VM image) was started. The following screen appeared:

Option I was selected to install the operating system.

On the following screen, English (Australia) was chosen:

Continue is clicked.

The following screen appeared:

The local time was already set to that of Sydney NSW based on UTC as the system time.

Set Installation Destination

Installation Destination was clicked to have the details filled out as follows:

Clicked Done to return to Installation Summary.

Network & Hostname

Back on the Installation Summary screen, Network & Host Name was clicked (this is below Installation Destination).

After Configure… was selected for eth0, the following screen was filled as follows to manually set the IP address:

Click Save to return to the Network & Host Name screen.

After Configure… was selected for eth1, the following screen was filled as follows to use a local-link:

Click Save to return to the Network & Host Name screen.

Hostname was changed to redfern1.yaocm.id.au, and the Apply button was clicked to get the following screen:

Clicked Done to return to Installation Summary.

On the Installation Summary screen, click Begin Installation.

After the password was set for the root user, an administrative user called douglas was created as follows:

After a while, the following screen appears:

Clicked Reboot, and the following screen eventually appears: