Installing The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Operating System - Lenovo ThinkServer RS140 Installation Manual

c. In the Add Partition window, select swap from the File System Type drop-down list box.
d. In the Allowable Drives window, select the hard disk drive on which you want to install the
operating system.
e. Type the amount of space (in MB) in the New Partitions Size window and then click OK.
Go back to the Partitioner window, the created root partition, boot partition, and swap partition are
displayed. Click Next. The drive partition is finished.
12. In the Format Warnings window, click Format to format the hard disk drive.
13. In the "Writing storage configuration to disk" window, click Write changes to disk.
14. In the "Boot loader operating system list" window, click Next.
15. The default installation is a basic server installation. You can customize your server by selecting a
different set of software from the software list or adding additional repositories that you want to use for
the software installation. Select Customize now. Then, click Next. The installation process begins.
Note: When a warning window is displayed, select the option of your choice and then continue with the
installation.
16. After the installation is completed, click Reboot to restart your server.
17. The installation continues after the server restarts. In the Welcome window, click Forward.
18. In the License Information window, select Yes, I agree to the License Agreement, and then click
Forward.
19. In the Set Up Software Updates window, configure the settings you need, and then click Forward. If
"Are you sure?" window is displayed, click Register later.
20. In the Finish Updates Setup window, click Forward.
21. Set your user name and password and then click Forward.
22. Set your time and date and then click Forward.
23. In the Kdump window, select Enable kdump if you want to enable kdump, and then click Finish to
complete the installation.
Note: When prompted to restart the server, click Continue or Yes.
24. Follow the instructions on the screen to log in to the operating system.

Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 operating system

This topic provides instructions on how to install the following operating systems:
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.9 (x86)
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.9 (x64)
To install the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 operating system, do the following:
1. Insert the operating system installation disc into the optical drive that you have set as the first startup
device. Then, start the server from the optical drive.
2. The Welcome to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9! window is displayed. Click Install system with basic
video driver and press Enter.
3. In the Disk Found window, click Skip and press Enter.
Note: If the operating system is installed on the SAN card through iSCSI, the Networking Device
window is displayed. Select the desired Ethernet device, and then click OK. In the Configure TCP/IP
window, select the option according to the network environment. The following steps are based on the
scenario that Enable lpv4 support->Dynamic IP configuration (DHCP) is selected.
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