Red Hat Linux 6.2 Installation Guidelines

Red Hat Linux 6.2 Installation Guidelines
The easiest method of installing Red Hat Linux 6.2 in a virtual machine is to use the standard Red Hat distribution CD. The notes below describe an installation using the standard distribution CD; however, installing Red Hat Linux 6.2 via the boot floppy/network method is supported as well. Before installing the operating system, be sure that you have already created a new virtual machine and configured it using the ESX Server Virtual Machine Wizard.

Caution: Red Hat Linux 6.2 does not run on Pentium 4 processors. It also does not run on Xeon processors that are branded Xeon, with no qualifier, or Xeon-MP (Pentium III Xeon processors are OK).

Install Red Hat Linux 6.2 using the text mode installer, which you may choose when you first boot the installer. At the Red Hat Linux 6.2 CD boot prompt, you are offered the following choices:

To install or upgrade a system ... in graphical mode ...

To install or upgrade a system ... in text mode, type: text .

To enable expert mode, ...

Use the function keys listed below ...


Choose the text mode installer by typing text followed by Enter.

Note: During the Red Hat Linux 6.2 installation, a standard VGA16 X server (without support for the VMware ESX Server X server) is installed. To get an accelerated SVGA X server running inside the virtual machine, you should install the VMware Tools package immediately after installing Red Hat Linux 6.2.


Red Hat Linux 6.2 Installation Steps
1.Use the VMware Management Interface to verify the virtual machine's devices are set up as you expect before starting the installation. For example, if you would like networking software to be installed during the Red Hat Linux 6.2 installation process, be sure the virtual machine's Ethernet adapter is enabled and configured.
If you plan to install the guest operating system from a physical CD-ROM disc, be sure the CD-ROM drive is connected to the virtual machine.

2.Insert the Red Hat Linux 6.2 CD in the CD-ROM drive and click the Power On button. The virtual machine should start booting from the CD and the installation process begins.
3.Follow the installation steps as you would for a real PC.
Note: If the virtual machine's Ethernet adapter has been enabled, the installation program automatically detects and loads the AMD PC/Net 32 driver (no command line parameter is necessary to load the driver).

4.During the Linux installation, select the standard VGA16 X server. Select the Generic VGA compatible/Generic VGA card from the list in the Choose a Card screen. Select the Generic Monitor entry from the list in the Monitor Setup screen. Select the Probe button from the Screen Configuration dialog and select OK from the Starting X dialog.
After you finish installing Linux, Be sure to install VMware Tools in your guest operating system. For details, see Installing VMware Tools and the Network Driver in the Guest Operating System. When you install VMware Tools, the generic X server is replaced with the accelerated X server included in the VMware Tools package.

5.Finish installing Red Hat Linux 6.2 as you would on a physical machine.
At this point Red Hat 6.2 boots and presents a login screen.