Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on virtualBox 4.1.

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After installing VirtualBox, follow these steps to install Red Hat Enterprise 6 on your PC. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Select new from the toolbar. Select next. Type in the Name that you wish to give ex. RHEL6 In OS type, Choose Linux in Operating system and Red Hat in version. For RAM, default is 512 MB. You can increase it or keep it as it is. Move to next. Here tick Start-up disk and select Create new hard disk. Move to next. In virtual disk creation, choose the VDI file type and move to next. Make it Dynamically Allocated. Here, you have to name your hard disk and set its size; keep it as it is. I.E. name will be the name of your guest OS and size will be 8 GB. Move to next and Create. 10. Finally click on Create. Now, you are done with setting up the guest OS. Now, actually installing Linux. 11. Now click Start from the toolbar. 12. You will see a dialog box about Auto capture keyboard. Here pressing the Ctrl (on the right side ) will enable you to use the Guest OSs mouse and switch back to the host OS. Click OK. 13. First run wizard: press next and input the source of the Red hat 6 DVD/ISO. Click on the little folder icon and define the path and click on Start. 14. If you see any information or warnings, just click OK. 15. Now, you wont be able to use you mouse for some time. Use the keyboard to select options. 16. The screen will turn blue; youll see two options OK and Skip. You can press OK but you can also Skip. 17. In the Graphical part, go to Next 18. Select the Language English for the Installation process and U.S. English for Keyboard. 19. Our Installation will involve Basic Storage Devices. 20. Give your Red Hat a name, e.g. mylinux and go to nest step. 21. Select a city in your time zone. Mine is Asia/Kolkata. 22. In Next step, you will have to set the root password. Remember that root is the MOST POWERFULL USER. Keep a strong password. Got to the Next part. 23. For type of Installation to select is Replace Existing Linux System(s) and Next. 24. Click on Write changes to disk. 25. From the list, select Desktop and click next. 26. It will install the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. IT will take quite a while. 27. Congratulations! Red Hat is now installed. Click on the Reboot button. 28. Now, the Final last few clicks before you start using Linux. 29. Click Forward. 30. Read the License Agreement and click on Yes, I agree to the License Agreement. And move Forward.

31. [Update needed] 32. Keep moving forward until you reach to create user screen. 33. Give the name, username and password for your first non-root user and move forward. Choose a strong password for the user. 34. Set date & time and move forward. 35. You might see en error about kdump, select OK. 36. Click Finish. 37. Now login with your username and password. Done!