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DO-33878/IT/LT Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 installation

Obtaining Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7

Get the boot.iso file and burn it on a CD-R or create a bootable USB key with it. The SHA-256 checksum for the file is aae4bf807870613c8b566c80f7193446e018439662472c48992bafa2e4951353.

Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7

Booting up the above mentioned ISO file will start a graphical installer:

  1. Welcome to Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Select English and English (United States)
  2. Localization/Date & Time: Select Europe/Zurich timezone
  3. Localization/Keyboard: Select English (US)
  4. Localization/Language support: Select English (United States)
  5. Software/Connect to Red Hat: Login and register the system.
  6. Software/Installation source: Set the installation source to 'Red Hat CDN'
  7. Software/Software selection: Select minimal install in the base environment. No add-on shall be selected at this point in time
  8. System/Installation destination: Select the first solid-state-drive (/dev/nvme0n1) and leave the second one unused. Configure the partitioning as described here
  9. System/Kdump: Keep Kdump enabled
  10. System/Network & Hostname: Configure the network to match your setup. Please note that Internet access is needed for the installation.
  11. System/Security policy: No profile shall be selected
  12. User settings/Root password: Set the root password and make sure to communicate it to CERN together with the tender bid
  13. User settings/User creation: No additional user shall be created at this point in time
  14. Complete the installation and reboot on it

Configuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7

Once the new installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 is over and the server has been rebooted on it, the system shall be configured as follows:

  1. Login as root
  2. Run dnf update
  3. Run subscription-manager repos --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-$(arch)-rpms
  4. Run dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
  5. Run dnf install fio stress-ng git bzip2 wget
  6. Run pip3 install --upgrade pip
  7. Reboot the server if a new kernel version has been deployed during the first dnf update run.

For more software requirements, please also see the CPU Benchmark procedure.

Last update: June 23, 2023