You can install the Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®
operating system on your own appliance for use with QRadar® Incident
Forensics.
For information about which Red Hat Enterprise Linux
versions are supported, see Prerequisite hardware and software.
Procedure
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Copy the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system DVD
ISO to one of the following portable storage devices:
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Insert the portable storage device into
your appliance
and restart your appliance.
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From the starting
menu, select one of the following options.
- Select
the USB or DVD drive
as the boot option.
- To install on a system that supports
Extensible Firmware Interface
(EFI), you must start the system in legacy mode.
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When prompted, log in to the system as
the root user.
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To prevent an issue with Ethernet
interface address naming,
on the Welcome page, press the Tab key and at
the end of the
Vmlinuz initrd=initrd.image line
add biosdevname=0.
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Follow
the instructions in the installation wizard to complete
the installation:
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Select the Basic
Storage Devices option.
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When
you configure the host name, the Hostname property
can include letters, numbers, and hyphens.
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When
you configure the network, in the Network
Connections window, select System eth0 and
then click Edit and select Connect
automatically.
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On the IPv4
Settings tab, from
the Method list, select Manual.
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In the DNS servers field,
type
a comma-separated list.
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Select Create
Custom Layout option.
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Configure EXT4 for
the file system
type for the /boot partition.
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Reformat the swap partition with a file system type
of swap.
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Select Basic Server.
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When the installation is complete,
click Reboot.
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Ensure
that your onboard network interfaces are named eth0, eth1, eth2,
and eth3.