Good day, We have recently purchased a RHEL5 system to be able to simulate a network environment of four machines for network designing purposes, and how convenient, RHEL5 comes with rights of four virtualizations ;)
So far, we have lost more than 1 week trying to make work one virtual machine. We tried full virtualization, we tried paravirtualization, we tried CDs, we tried mounted ISO images. Since we received the machine and software, someone with good Linux understanding tried to make this work for approximately 50-60 work hours. I tried to help him too, we looked everywhere on the Internet and could not find anything but specks of information (and obviously the usual mailing list "never mind, got it working, thanks"). Finally, we gave up and used VMWare on Windows and Ubuntu virtual machines. Took 2 hours to set up. But I find this mind boggling we could not make RHEL5 work in 2 weeks! Does anyone have a HOWTO, a list of steps, any complete help, to install RHEL5 (64 bits) from scratch on a completely empty machine and (for starter) one fully working virtual RHEL5? For starters, no we don't officially know how to create the proper "ftp share" and which files of the CDs to put there, no we don't officially know if we need to change options, or anything. No we don't know if there are compatibility issues with the x86-64 version we are using. We tried our earnest to make sense of the 2 pages of instructions saying "oh you just have to do this, select the URL with your installation, and it will work". What url? How? What do we put there? There seem to be a problem with ejecting CDs, there seem to be a link to URLs with the CDs there, fair enough. For data's purposes, the machine is a 4-core Xeon with 4 gigabytes of ram (for proper 4-machines virtualization). HW Virtualization is activated. Once I know how to do it, I will certainly put a howto on my personal web site ;) Thank you very much in advance, community! Michel _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
