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Chapter 2. Downloading Red Hat Enterprise Linux

If you have a Red Hat subscription, you can download ISO image files of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 installation DVD from the Red Hat Customer Portal. If you do not have a subscription, either purchase one or obtain a free evaluation subscription from the Software & Download Center at https://access.redhat.com/downloads/.

There are two basic types of installation media available for the AMD64 and Intel 64 (x86_64), ARM (Aarch64), and IBM Power Systems (ppc64) architectures:

A full installation image that boots the installation program and performs the entire installation without additional package repositories.

Binary DVDs are also available for IBM Z. They can be used to boot the installation program using a SCSI DVD drive or as installation sources.

A minimal boot image that boots the installation program but requires access to additional package repositories. Red Hat does not provide the repository; you must create it using the full installation ISO image.

Supplementary DVD images containing additional packages, such as the IBM Java Runtime Environment and additional virtualization drivers may be available, but they are beyond the scope of this document.

If you have a subscription or evaluation subscription, follow these steps to obtain the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ISO image files:

Procedure 2.1. Downloading Red Hat Enterprise Linux ISO Images

Visit the Customer Portal at https://access.redhat.com/home. If you are not logged in, click LOG IN on the right side of the page. Enter your account credentials when prompted.

Ensure that you select the appropriate Product Variant and Architecture for your installation target. By default, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server and x86_64 are selected. If you are not sure which variant best suits your needs, see http://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux. Additionally, a list of packages available for every variant is available in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package Manifest.

A list of available downloads is displayed; most notably, a minimal Boot ISO image and a full installation Binary DVD ISO image. These files are described above. Additional images can be available, such as preconfigured virtual machine images, which are beyond the scope of this document.

Choose the image file that you want to use. You have two ways to download it from the Customer Portal:

Right-click the name and then click Copy Link Location or a similar menu item, the exact wording of which depends on the browser that you are using. This action copies the URL of the file to your clipboard, which allows you to use an alternative application to download the file to your computer. This approach is especially useful if your Internet connection is unstable: in that case, you browser might fail to download the whole file, and an attempt to resume the interrupted download process fails because the download link contains an authentication key which is only valid for a short time. Specialized applications such as curl can, however, be used to resume interrupted download attempts from the Customer Portal, which means that you need not download the whole file again and thus you save your time and bandwidth consumption.

If your Linux distribution does not use yum , or if you do not use Linux at all, download the most appropriate software package from the curl web site.

$ curl -o filename.iso 'copied_link_location'

Replace filename.iso with the ISO image name as displayed in the Customer Portal, such as rhel-server-7.0-x86_64-dvd.iso . This is important because the download link in the Customer Portal contains extra characters which curl would otherwise use in the downloaded file name, too. Then, keep the single quotation mark in front of the next parameter, and replace copied_link_location with the link that you have copied from the Customer Portal; copy it again if you copied the commands above in the meantime. Note that in Linux, you can paste the content of the clipboard into the terminal window by middle-clicking anywhere in the window, or by pressing Shift + Insert . Finally, use another single quotation mark after the last parameter, and press Enter to run the command and start transferring the ISO image. The single quotation marks prevent the command line interpreter from misinterpreting any special characters that might be included in the download link.

$ curl -o rhel-server-7.0-x86_64-dvd.iso 'https://access.cdn.redhat.com//content/origin/files/sha256/85/85a. 46c/rhel-server-7.0-x86_64-dvd.iso?_auth_=141. 7bf'

If your Internet connection does drop before the transfer is complete, refresh the download page in the Customer Portal; log in again if necessary. Copy the new download link, use the same basic curl command line parameters as earlier but be sure to use the new download link, and add -C — to instruct curl to automatically determine where it should continue based on the size of the already downloaded file.

The following is an example of a curl command line that you use if you have only partially downloaded the ISO image of your choice:

$ curl -o rhel-server-7.0-x86_64-dvd.iso 'https://access.cdn.redhat.com//content/origin/files/sha256/85/85a. 46c/rhel-server-7.0-x86_64-dvd.iso?_auth_=141. 963' -C -

Optionally, you can use a checksum utility such as sha256sum to verify the integrity of the image file after the download finishes. All downloads on the Download Red Hat Enterprise Linux page are provided with their checksums for reference:

$ sha256sum rhel-server-7.0-x86_64-dvd.iso 85a. 46c rhel-server-7.0-x86_64-dvd.iso

Similar tools are available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. You can also use the installation program to verify the media when starting the installation; see Section 23.2.2, “Verifying Boot Media” for details.

Place it on a server to prepare for a network installation. For specific directions, see Section 3.3.3, “Installation Source on a Network”.

Place it on a hard drive to use the drive as an installation source. For specific instructions, see Section 3.3.2, “Installation Source on a Hard Drive”.

Use it to prepare a Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) server, which allows you to boot the installation system over a network. See Chapter 24, Preparing for a Network Installation for instructions.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) – дистрибутив Linuх, предназначенный для использования в организациях. Включает широкие возможности развертывания на локальном оборудовании, виртуальных машинах и в облачной инфраструктуре

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• Процессор: x86_64 / aarch64 / ppc64le / s390x
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• Диск: 10 GB свободного места

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) — популярная коммерческая операционная система на базе ядра Linux, имеющая открытый исходный код и предназначенная для развёртывания на предприятиях. RHEL можно использовать как серверную систему, а также как рабочую станцию или сервер с графическим окружением GNOME.

Операционная система Red Hat Enterprise Linux ориентирована на стабильность работы и безопасность системы. Она имеет широкие возможности развертывания, включая поддержку облачной инфраструктуры, центров обработки данных и систем виртуализации.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux поддерживает различные архитектуры, а также позволяет выбрать тип установки: сервер, сервер с графическим интерфейсом, рабочая станция, минимальная установка и другие. Во время установки, доступен широкий выбор дополнительного программного обеспечения, включая серверные программы и решения, а также средства разработки. Конструктор образов позволяет IT-специалистам создавать собственные образы операционной системы, оптимизированные под конкретное оборудование и задачи.

Операционную систему можно использовать бесплатно в коммерческих целях. Ограничения бесплатного использования состоят в отсутствии технической поддержки и ограничении в количестве используемых копий на предприятии. Разрешается бесплатно использовать не более 16 копий операционной системы на одно предприятие или фирму.

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