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6. Type the name of the Virtual server, since I am creating this for my blog I name it e-DBA.blogspot.com 01 and for the location of the VMware datafiles, then click Next to continue.

7. Choose Use host-only networking and click Next to continue.

8. Type in the Disk size 20 and you don't have to Allocate all disk space now, untick the Allocate all disk space and click Finish to complete it.

9. Now I have virtual server created.

Now we successfully created a Virtual server with 256 RAM, HardDisk 20GB, Network Card and 1 processor.

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You should already install VMware Server.

We are going to create a virtual machine (virtual computer server), we going to create a server with all the component e.g. CPU, RAM, Network Device, CD-ROM just basically all device.

Follow this step to create new virtual server.

1. Run VMware, choose Local host and click Ok to continue. (If you are running with Vista Right-Click VMware Console and choose Run as administrator)




2. Press CTRL + N or go to Click File -> New -> Virtual Server




3. Click Next to Continue.



4. Choose Typical and click Next to continue.



5. I am creating this virtual server to install Oracle Enterprise Linux which compatible with Red Hat therefore
Choose Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and click Next to continue.



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5. Click somewhere in the virtual machine, if you are in the virtual machine session you should see message at the bottom right VMware Console "To release cursor, press Ctrl-Alt"
Once you are inside the machine console Press Enter to continue boot up from the ISO (or CD).

6. Choose skip to skip checking and press Enter to continue.

7. Click Next to continue.

8. Choose English (English) and click Next to continue.

9. Choose U.S. English and click Next to Continue



10. Warning window will pop up click Yes.



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35. Click Yes to continue.




36. Click Forward to continue.




37. Set the Date and time accordingly and click Forward to continue.




38. Click Forward to continue.



39. Click Continue to continue.



40. Click Forward to continue.



41. Click Finish to continue.




42. Click Ok to continue.



43. After you reboot the system you have the Oracle Enterprise Linux installed.




We now have Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 installed.

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28. Click Ok to continue.




29. Follow above step until all 5 disks (or ISO files),
After the fifth disk, click Reboot.



30. Click Forward to continue.




31. Read the Agreement and tick Yes, I agree to the License Agreement and click Forward to continue.




32. For the Firewall choose Disabled and click Forward to continue.




33. Click Yes to continue.

34. Disable the Security Enhanced Linux feature, choose Disabled and click Forward to continue.



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22. Set password for the root account at least 6 characters and click Next to continue.




23. Tick all 5 tasks, and click Next to continue.




24. Click Next to continue.




25. Window pop up informing you that all 5 cds are required for my case all 5 ISO files, click Continue to continue.



26. Now you need to insert 2 disk or mount 2nd ISO file.
Right click e-DBA.blogspot.com 01 and choose setting.




27. Click on the CD-ROM (IDE1:0) and browse 2nd ISO file click Ok to continue.

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16. Now you have all 20 GB size all use for the system then click Next to continue.




17. Click Next to continue.




18. At Network Device section Click Edit.



19. Choose Manual configuration set the IP in my case I am using 192.1168.1.210 / 255.255.255.0
I don't need IPv6 so I going to disable it by untick the IPv6 support, click Ok to continue.




20. Set the hostname in my case I name it e-DBA01, set gateway and Primary DNS 192.168.1.1 then click Next to continue.

21. Choose the country where you are at, I am choosing Singapore and click Next

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11. Choose Create Custom layout and click Next to continue.




12. Click New to create new partition.



13. At File System Type choose swap, size it 2048, Fixed size and click OK to continue.




14. Click New again to create another partition.




15. Choose / (root mount point) and choose Fill to maximum allowable size, then click Ok to continue.




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1. Run VMware Server Console, if you followed my previous post on creating VMware server you should have one virtual server for my case is e-DBA.blogspot.com 01.
Double click on the Memory.




2. Resize the memory to 1024 MB and click Ok.



3. Double Click CD-ROM (IDE1:0)
If you have Oracle Enterprise Linux CD you can choose Use Physical Drive and insert Disk 1 in your disk drive.
In my case I have the downloaded ISO files therefore I mount the first file by ticking the Use ISO image and then Click OK to comfirm



4. Click Start this Virtual machine to boot up the virtual server.



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