How to do custom installation of RedHat 6

Insert the CD labeled RedHat Operating System 6.0 i386 DISK1 into the CD-ROM or DVD Drive.

                          After booting from Linux CDROM
                          At the boot prompt: [ Press Enter]
                          At the “CD Found” screen, choose "Skip" to skip the media test

            Choose a Language Selection:

                           Select “English” [Click Next OR Press Enter]
                           Keyboard Configuration:
                           Select “US” [Click Next OR Press Enter]
                   

            Disk Partitioning Setup:

                           Choose “Custom  Partition” [Click Next]

                           Choose the appropriate disk

                           [Click new] it will open menu, inside that select boot partition and make it

                           500MB [click ok] 
                           Select rest of the space [click new],it will open menu ,inside that select lvm and

                           make it all the remaining  space as  LVM [click ok]

                           [click LVM] create a partition as given below

            Disk Setup: (Customizing as per your requirement)

                           Assuming a 40 GB partition called /dev/sda (this parameter will vary)

                           /dev/sda1 == /boot (500 MB)

                           /dev/sda2 == VolGroup00 (Rest of the Disk)

                   VolGroup00

                          LogVol00 == / (Rest of the VolGroup00)

                          LogVol01 == swap (2GB or 2*RAM whatever is applicable)

                          LogVol02 == /tmp ( 5GB )

                          [Click Next]

            Networking Device: (Assign as per your network)

             Select Appropriate interface (mostly eth0) [Click Next OR Press Enter]

             Disable ipv6 and dhcp

             Enter  IP: Given ip and  Netmask: Given Mask  [click next]

             Gateway: Given ip

             Primary Dns server: Given ip

             Secondary Dns server: Given ip [Click Next OR Press Enter]

            Time Zone Selection:

                         Click you mouse on “Asia/Calcutta” in the MAP [Click Next]

            Set Root Password:

                         Enter root password twice: Refer "Extra requirements document"

                         [Click Next]

                         Package Group Selection: Select only the following packages:

             Choose “Custom Now” [Click Next]

            Desktops:

           X Window System -- Deselect All

           GNOME Desktop -- Deselect All

           KDE (K Desktop Environment) -- Deselect All

Applications: 
            Editors -- Select vim-enhanced 
            Engineering and Scientific -- Deselect All

                        Graphical Internet -- Deselect All 
                        Text-based Internet -- Select elinks

                        Office/Productivity -- Deselect All

                        Sound and Video -- Deselect All

                        Authoring & Publishing -- Deselect All

                        Graphics -- Deselect All

                        Games and Entertainment -- Deselect All 

             Development:

                        Development Libraries -- openssl-devel, perl-LDAP 
                        Development Tools --Select automake14, automake15, automake16, automake17
                        byacc, diffstat, elfutils, expect, ltrace, oprofile, patchutils, pfman

                        GNOME Software Development -- Deselect All

                        Java -- Deselect All

                        KDE Software Development -- Deselect All

                        Legacy Software Development -- Select All

                        X-Software Development -- Select libpng10-devel

                        Ruby – Deselect All
                               

            Servers: (select appropriate server packages based on final functionality)

DNS Name Server -- Select All

FTP Server -- Select All

Legacy Network Server – xinetd

Mail Server -- Select sendmail-cf, sendmail

MySQL Database -- Select  libdbi-dbd-mysql, mod-auth-mysql, mysql-server, php-mysql and perl-DBD-MySQL

Network Server – DHCP

News Server -- Deselect All

PostgreSQL Database -- Deselect All

Printing Support -- Deselect All

            Server Configuration Tools – system-config-services, system-config-bind

                        Web Server -- mod_perl, mod_python, mod_ssl, mod-auth-mysql, php, php-ldap,

                        php-mysql, distache

                        Windows File Server -- Deselect All 
                          

            Base Systems:

Administration Tools – Deselect All

Base—network manager, acpid, amtu, anacron, apmd, autofs,cpuspeed, dmraid, dos2unix,dump,effect, ftp, gnupg, iptstate, irqbalance, jwhois, lftp ,libalo, logwatch, man pages, mdam, microcode_ctl, mlocate, mtr, nc, netconfig, nfs-utils, nss-db, nss-ldap, numcatl, oddjab, pam-ccreds, pam-passwdqc, pax, pinfo,pkinit-nss, pm-utils, rdate, rdist, readahead, redhat-isb, rng-utils, rsync, sendmail, setuptool, sos, spescpo, sudo, symlinks, sysreport, system-config-n/w-tul, tcp-wrappers, tcpdump, telnet, time, tree, wget, which, yum-updated

Dialup N/W – Deselect All

Java – Deselect All

Legacy software support – compact-libgcc-296, compact-libstdc++-296, compact-libstdc++-33, compact-openldap

                        System Tools --- Select hwbrowser, mc, net-snmp-libs,net-snmp-utils,  

                        openldap-clients, screen, sysstat

                        Xwindows systems --- Deselect All

                        Virtualization --  Deselect All

                        Clustering -- Deselect All

                        Cluster storage -- Deselect All

                        Language -- Deselect All

                        [Click Next]

                Once Installation is done [Click Reboot]

                Remove the CD from the CD-ROM Drive

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