Installing The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Operating System - Lenovo ThinkServer RS140 Installation Manual

18. Select the location as you need and click Next.
19. Select Start using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server to log in to the operating system.
Note: The local account is used by default when logging in to the operating system for the first time.
Log out and then log in to Root.

Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 operating system

This topic provides instructions on installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 (x64) operating system.
To install the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 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. In the Welcome window, select Install RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.2 and press Enter.
3. When "What language would you like to ..." is displayed, select a required language (for example,
English) and click Continue.
4. In the Installation Summary window, set Date&Time, Language Support, Keyboard, Security Policy,
and Installation Source. The following steps are based on the scenario that the default settings are
used in this step.
5. In the Installation Summary window, click Software Selection and select software packages to be
installed. The following steps are based on the scenario that Server with GUI is selected and all items in
the right pane are selected. Then click Done.
6. In the Installation Summary window, click Installation Destination.
7. In the Installation Destination window, select a hard disk drive from Local Standard Disks for installing
the operating system, and click Done.
Notes: If you want to create a drive partition, select I will configure partitioning and click Done. In the
Manual Partitionining window, do one of the following to create a required drive partition:
• Manually create a root partition (/)
a. In the Manual Partitioning window, click + in the bottom left corner.
b. In the Add a New Mount Point window, select forward slash (/) from the Mount Point drop-down
list.
c. Type the amount of space (for example, 80 GB) in the Desired Capacity field.
d. Click Add mount point.
• Manually create a boot partition (/boot in legacy mode or /boot/efi in UEFI mode)
a. In the Manual Partitioning window, click + in the bottom left corner.
b. In the Add a New Mount Point window, select /boot (or /boot/efi in UEFI mode) from the Mount
Point drop-down list.
c. Type the amount of space (for example, 2 GB) in the Desired Capacity field.
d. Click Add mount point.
• Manually create a swap partition
a. In the Manual Partitioning window, click + in the bottom left corner.
b. In the Add a New Mount Point window, select swap from the Mount Point drop-down list.
c. Type the amount of space (for example, 2 GB) in the Desired Capacity field.
d. Click Add mount point.
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