Install Oracle Enterprise Linux 7.2

Overview

Installation of Oracle Enterprise Linux 7.2.

References

• Oracle^® Linux Installation Guide for Release 7
  • Chapter 1 Pre-installation Configuration
    • 1.2 Obtaining and Preparing Installation Media
  • Chapter 2 Installing Oracle Linux Manually
    • 2.1 Starting the Installation
    • 2.2 Setting the System Time and Supporting Other Languages
    • 2.4 Configuring the System Storage and Network
    • 2.5 Completing the Installation

Procedure

Installation Media

See 1.2 Obtaining and Preparing Installation Media for instrutions.

The installation media was the ISO image, V100082-01.iso, which was downloaded from Oracle Software Delivery Cloud.

Start Installation

See 2.1 Starting the Installation for instructions.

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.

Choose Language

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

Continue is clicked.

Installation Summary

The following screen appeared:

Set Date and Time

Followed the procedure in 2.2 Setting the System Time and Supporting Other Languages to set the local time to that of Sydney NSW based on UTC as the system time.

Set Installation Destination

See 2.4 Configuring the System Storage and Network for instructions.

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

Clicked Done to return to Installtion Summary where Network & Host Name was clicked (this is below Installation Destination).

After Configure… was selected, the following screen was filled as follows:

Clicked Save then Done to return to Network & Host Name, where the following settings were made:

Complete the Installation

See 2.5 Completing the Installation for instructions.