Monday, February 14, 2011

Oracle Linux 6.0

Few weeks after 5.6, Oracle Enterprise Linux is definitely gone, welcome Oracle Linux ! The well known Oracle Enterprise Linux has changed the name within the versions 5.6 and now 6.0, this last one released last Friday. See the announcement on the Oracle’s Linux Blog.

I’ll install this OL6.0 on a virtual machine with VMWare Server 2.0.2, choosing RHEL5.0 64-bit type of VM.

From within the first screen, we feel in Oracle world, much more than ever, as well as the new name.

 OEL60_001
OEL60_002
Then the big red splash screen, and language settings
OEL60_003 OEL60_004 OEL60_005 OEL60_006 OEL60_007
We are installing a database server, DHCP is not a good option, do not forget to set a fixed IP address
OEL60_008 OEL60_009 OEL60_010 OEL60_011 OEL60_012
OEL60_013 OEL60_014 OEL60_015 OEL60_016
Define the type of the server we are building
OEL60_017
And add packages if needed (be aware, since OL 6.0 is not yet certified within the Oracle database, the package oracle-validated-1 available on previous version is not available yet for that Linux version
OEL60_018 OEL60_019 OEL60_020 OEL60_021 OEL60_022 OEL60_023
And the installer continues
OEL60_024 OEL60_025 OEL60_026
After reboot, final steps
OEL60_027 OEL60_028 OEL60_029 OEL60_030  OEL60_032 OEL60_033 OEL60_034  OEL60_036 OEL60_037 OEL60_038
Set the network to start automatically if you did not do it on previous step
OEL60_039

[root@orion4 ~]# uname -a
Linux orion4.phoenix.nga 2.6.32-100.28.5.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 2 18:40:23 EST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@orion4 ~]# more /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.0 (Santiago)
[root@orion4 ~]#


Installation of VMWare Server 2.0.2 tools
 OEL60_VMWARE_TOOLS_001 OEL60_VMWARE_TOOLS_002
Open a terminal from the desktop
OEL60_VMWARE_TOOLS_003
Mount the cdrom, and untar the vmwaretools into a temp directory, then run the tools installer
OEL60_VMWARE_TOOLS_004 OEL60_VMWARE_TOOLS_005 OEL60_VMWARE_TOOLS_006 OEL60_VMWARE_TOOLS_007 OEL60_VMWARE_TOOLS_008
We do not need the C compiler, reply no to all of those questions, and it is successfully finishing
OEL60_VMWARE_TOOLS_009 OEL60_VMWARE_TOOLS_010 OEL60_VMWARE_TOOLS_011 OEL60_VMWARE_TOOLS_012
OEL60_VMWARE_TOOLS_013

Enjoy it !

Nicolas.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks Nicolas! I just installed it on a VMWare Server VM. I encountered a few problems in the beginning since I didn't wipe the entire partitioning, but now it's running smoothly!

Melban said...

Thanks for the info.