Installing Oracle Linux server on VMware

Installing Oracle Linux server on VMware:
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-- First Download VMware and install it.

-- Open VMware

-- follow the below instructions as per screenshots. 

--click on Create a New Virtual machine icon

--click on Next

--Select Insaller disc image file(iso) radion button and click Browse option to select "OEL iso file" (which u downloaded earlier)

--see below image for reference of ISO file  for installing (Oracle Enterprise Linux)OEL 5.6 iso filename.

--By click Browse option, select .iso file 

--click Next 

--select Linux radio button and version as Oracle Enterprise Linux.
--click Next

--Give Virtual machine name and Location (where u want to save vm machine).

--click Next 

--Give Disk size

--select Store virtual disk as a sigle file radio button

--click Next

--click on Customize Hardware and give values as per below screenshot

--click Close

--Click Finish

--click ok

--Move mouse cursor into it and hit Enter button

--Click Skip

--Note: Use Ctrl+Alt key to move mouse over in&out of Virtual machine and windows system.

--click Next

--click Next

--click Next

--click Yes

--click Next

--select New, to create custom mount-points.

--New pop-up opens as above

--Give Mount Point value as / ( it means root mount-point) give values as mentioned in above image.

--click Ok

--Again click New

--Now give /tmp value and Size more than 2GB

--clik Ok

--observe above screen, which mount-points are created.

--Again click New

--Give Swap value as 2 times of RAM.

--click OK

--Again click New

--Now /u01 as mount-point and select radio button as above one.

--click ok

--click Next

--click Next

--click Next

--select region as Kolkata.

--click Next

--Give root password.

--click Next

--select Customize now and click Next

--select the packages listed below:

Desktop Environments

                GNOME Desktop Environment  

Applications

                Graphical Internet

Development

      Development Libraries

      Development Tools

      GNOME Software Development

      Java Development

      Legacy Software Development

      X Software Development  (Select libxpdevel and openmotif)

Servers

      Server Configuration Tools

      Web Server

      Windows File Server

Base System

      Administration Tools 

      Base

      Java

      Legacy Software Support (select compat-db)

      System Tools  (select sysstat)

      X Window System

--Click Next

--Click Next

--Installation started............

--Installing process going on..............

--Click Reboot

--Click Forward

--Click Forward

--Click Forward

--Click Forward

--Click Forward

--Click continue

--Click Forward

--Click Finish.

--Installation Done.

--Installation is successfully...Now Login as root user and password.

--username: root

--enter password.
--Below screen shows successful login.

--Right click on screen and click Open Terminal,then new terminal opens as shown below.

--Check the mount-points created and disk space by using command 'df -h'

--Installation done.