Post Installation Steps for RHEL 6

In my last post I explain the steps for installation of Redhat Enterprise Linux 6. In this post I will explain the Post installation Steps, which are required to complete your installation. Since this is an important objective for RHCSA, understanding all the installation steps is a must.

After package installation reboot your system and from there you have to follow the post installation steps:
Step 1. After rebooting welcome screen appears,  click forward button for the next step.

Step 2. In License Information screen click on "yes, I agree to License Agreement" and click forward.

Step 3. Then do the software update process. But to do that you should have a subscription from Red Hat Network(RHN). And click forward to continue.

Step 4.  Next screen allows you to create a regular USER. Provide username, full name and password and click forward to continue.

Step 5. In the Date and Time setup wizard enter the date and time and click forward to continue.

Step 6. In the next screen you can setup a KDump environment. It is up to you to setup a KDump environment.

KDump is a Kernel Crash Dumping Mechanism it will prevent you from kernel crash. It is recommended to setup a KDump environment.

After setting-up the KDump environment you are now ready to login to the RHEL 6 server..


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First Look of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 has improved in its looks. It looks much better than before and looks like the UBUNTU Linux. Here are some photos of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Installation Screen

Changed Installation Screens::

Boot Screen

Can see my old LG monitor

Boot screen looks very impressive and looks likes vista, the circle effect is very impressive:

Photos are little blurry because i have taken these pictures form my cam since i am unable to take screenshot using printscreen.

RHEL 6 Login Screen



Login screen also looks very impressive:

RHEL 6 Desktop

 Desktop and My Computer view

The Desktop is quite similar to the Desktop of UBUNTU Linux....

Drives like Ubuntu

As you can see in the above photo, all other drives are automatically mounted by default, same as the UBUNTU Linux which I think is a good move by RED HAT.......

All N All it is good to see some improvement in the graphics form the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. This move form Red Hat can attract some regular desktop users of other Linux Distros like Fedora and specially UBUNTU......... 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6





The first major update form RedHat, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, in more than three years hits the market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is the next generation of RedHat's  operating system, designed for mission-critical enterprise computing and certified by top enterprise software and hardware vendors.

 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 features includes the new stable kernel version 2.6.32.. and the Fourth Extended filesystem (ext4), based on the third extended filesystem (ext3). It supports faster and efficient allocation of disk space. The fourth extended filesystem (ext4) is default and also recommended.

Most of the applications have been updated on the  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 including :

• Firefox version 3.5
• Thunderbird 3
• OpenOffice.org 3.1

Some of the features of the new RHEL 6 are :

• Updated kernel and core technology.
• Approx 30% more packages than previous version.
•  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 features fully integrated virtualization based on the KVM hypervisor.
• Updated development environment.
• Security : Svirt, provides containment and isolation of virtual guests.

Click here to download RHEL 6 Release Notes --->

I will post more of the features of  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 after using it......