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Oracle Linux 6.6

Actually figuring out how to get the installer going is a bit tricky, and the essence of this post,
but once installed I’m feeling like it’s where I’ll be for awhile. I’m assuming you’re doing
this from Windows; if that’s not the case, you will have to read up on how to create the USB
drive from your operating system. Here’s the path to happiness:

 Get an 8GB or larger USB drive

 Download the install
o Go to Oracle E-Delivery
o Sign away your life, and select Oracle Linux 6 Update 6 Media Pack for
x86_64 (64 bit) or 32-bit I suppose if you’re into that
o Here you’ll see 5 downloads, but we’re only concerned with 2
 Oracle Linux Release 6 Update 6 for x86_64 (64 Bit)
 Oracle Linux Release 6 Update 6 Boot iso image for x86_64 (64 bit)

o
o Now head over to Linux Live USB creator, and install it as a Windows
application
 Point this application at the smaller Boot ISO image (226MB one),
select your USB drive as the target, hit go, and now your USB key is
bootable
o This is the part which tripped me up and caused some grief: after creating your
boot key, copy the big raw ISO file (3.7GB) to the USB key also
 After you configure the basics in the installer GUI, it needs this ISO to
actually do the install
 If you don’t do this, you get an error like: Missing ISO image The
installer has tried to mount image #1, but cannot find it on the hard
drive.
 It seems possible that you could have this ISO on another USB
drive and point it to it, but I had no success with it
 It appears that the installer will not recognize a dynamic mount
of a USB key in the middle of the process, so you can’t switch
out keys or add a 2nd one
 I even tried to put two USB keys in, booting from the
small image and then pointing to the big ISO (on
/dev/sdc) when the installer got confused but it didn’t
work either
o At this point, you just put the USB key into your PC, ensure USB is in the
boot sequence at the bios level, and start the PC
o Early in the installer, the TUI (text user interface: a big red box) asks where
something is located. I’m sorry I can’t be more specific, nor do I remember
what it was looking for. But I have the answer in general:
 My PC is simple: one hard drive, and the USB drive
 Linux sees these as sda1, sda2, sda3 (my hard drive, with 3
partitions) and sdb1 (my usb drive)
 What it needs to be told is sdb1 (your USB drive) and then it chugs
along happily