The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Beta is available on the following architectures:
- i386
- AMD64/Intel64
- System z
- IBM Power (64-bit)
Some of the many improvements and new features that are included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Power management – tickless kernel and improvements through the application stack to reduce wakeups, power consumption measurement by Powertop, Power Management (ASPM, ALPM), and adaptive system tuning by Tuned, all enhance more efficient system power usage.
- Next generation networking – comprehensive IPv6 support (NFS 4, CIFS, mobile support [RFC 3775], ISATAP support), FCoE, iSCSI, and a new and improved mac 802.11 wireless stack.
- Scalable filesystems – ext4 file system provides support for larger file sizes and significantly reduces repair times over ext3. XFS® is a high-performance file system that supports extremely large files and is optimized for large data transfers.
- Virtualization – KVM includes performance improvements and new features, sVirt protects the guest and host from unauthorized access, SR-IOV and NPIV deliver high-performance virtual use of physical devices, and libvirt leverages kernel resource management functionality.
- Enterprise security enhancement – SELinux includes improved ease of use, application sandboxing, and significantly increased coverage of system services, while SSSD provides unified access to identity and authentication services as well as caching for off-line use.
- Development and runtime support – SystemTap improvements, ABRT is a new framework for simple collection and reporting of bug information, and improvements are made to GCC (version 4.4.3), glibc (version 2.11.1), and GDB (version 7.0.1).
Burn Downloaded Image to DVD and Boot Computer Using Red Hat 6 Installation DVD
Check RHEL image MD5 sum and burn image to DVD with your favourite CD/DVD burner. And boot computer using Red Hat Installation DVD.Red Hat 6 RHEL Installation
1. Select Install or upgrade an existing system option on Grub Menu
2. Choose a language
3. Choose a keyboard type
4. Choose a installation media
5. Skip DVD media test (or select media test, if you want to test installation media before installation)
6. Red Hat 6 graphical installer starts, select next
7. Accepct Pre-Release Installation
8. Select storage devices
9. Insert computer name
10. Select time zone
11. Enter a password for root user
12. Select type of installation
Read every options info carefully. And select encrypting if needed and option to review and modify partition layout.13. Review partition layout
Modify if needed. Default setup with ext4 and LVM looks good for desktop machine.14. Accept write changes to disc
15. Writing changes (creating partitions) to disc
16. Configure boot loader options
Select device to install bootloader and check/create boot loader operating system list.17. Select softwares to install and enable repositories
This case we select Software Development Workstation and enable Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 Beta Repository and select Customize now.18. Customize package selection
Select PHP and Web Server to installation.Select MySQL and PostgreSQL Databases.
Select set of Development tools like Eclipse IDE.
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