On the leftmost pane, you can add other keyboard layouts to the preselected default layout. You can also revise the order of the listed layouts. The layout at the top of the list becomes the default layout.

Configuring languages consists of specifying other locales of the selected language that you want the system to use. This option is similar to the configuration of the keyboard layout at the beginning of the installation.

From the list of languages on the left side, select other languages for the system. Then, on the right side, select from the available locales for that language.

The Time & Date screen lets you set the following:

• Time zone for the system

• Actual time and the format for displaying time

• Current date

To select the system's time zone, select the appropriate location from the Region and City dropdown lists.

To enable automatic date and time, select the Configure NTP button and specify the NTP server.

You can skip configuring NTP until later by using the Chrony suite. See Oracle Linux 10: Setting Up Networking With NetworkManager. See also Configure Chrony on Oracle Linux.

If you use the full ISO image as the source, the install program detects that image. By default, the Auto-detected installation media button is selected and Appstream is listed as an extra installation repository. Because the image contains all the packages required for a system installation, you can use the default configuration to proceed with the installation.

If you use the boot ISO image as the source, the On the network button is selected as the installation mode and the Closest mirror option is selected as the repository source. Optionally, you can specify a local mirror as a repository source, in which case you would need to provide the mirror's path. If no path is specified, the Oracle Linux yum server is used by default. The installer automatically uses the required repositories from the network mirror to install the OS. However, the repositories aren't listed in the window. Because the installation image is configured to automatically use the Oracle Linux yum server if no mirror path is specified, you can use the default configuration to proceed with the installation.

Each Base Environment represents a typical type of usage for the system and installs the required packages and software. The Server with GUI environment is selected by default. Select the base environment that best fits the purpose of the system on which you're installing Oracle Linux.

From the right side, you can add extra software profiles to the selected base environment. These profiles consists of groups of related packages that enable the required functionality.

You can configure the installer to use local storage devices in the Local Standard Disks section of the window. A check mark icon on the disk device is displayed for any selected devices.

If you need to add network based or specialized storage such as ISCSI or NVDIMM devices, you can select the Add a disk... button in the Specialized & Network Disks section of the window.

You can configure other options for the target destination in the Storage Configuration section of the window:

• Selecting the Automatic radio button performs automatic partitioning, using the default partitioning schema. See Default Disk Partition Layout.

  • I would like to make additional space available: Set this checkbox to reclaim space from an existing partitioning layout.

  • Encrypt my data: Set this checkbox to encrypt partitions using Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS). You're prompted to set a LUKS encryption passphrase when you select the Done button.

• Selecting the Custom radio button lets you use custom partitioning. If you set this option, the Manual Partitioning configuration page is displayed after you select the Done button.

Manual Partitioning

Detected mount points are listed in the left side of the window. Mount points are grouped by any detected OS installations. Options for each mount point are displayed on the right side when you select a mount point on the left side.

If the system contains existing file systems, ensure that enough space is available for the installation. To remove any partitions, select them in the list and select the - button.

If no partitions exist on the disk and you want to create a set of partitions as a starting point, select a partitioning scheme from the left side, and select Click here to create them automatically. The installer automatically creates standard partitions and mount points that you can customize and adjust.

The following options are available when configuring a mount point:

• Mount point: If a file system is the root file system, enter /, enter /boot for the /boot file system, and so on. No mount point is required for a swap file system.

• Desired Capacity: Set the value to the size of the file system that you want to create. You can use common size units such as KiB or GiB. The default size unit is MiB.

• Device Type: Set the device type to one of Standard Partition, LVM, or LVM Thin Provisioning. You can configure RAID options if two or more disks are configured for manual partitioning and you select an LVM device type. You can also configure the LVM Volume Group, if an LVM device type is selected.

• File System: Select the file system type that you want to use for the partition. Note that Oracle Linux also includes the Btrfs file system type, but to configure a Btrfs file system you must use the UEK boot image to load the installer. See Installing a System With a Btrfs root File System for more information.

• Reformat: Set this checkbox format the partition. If the partition isn't a newly created one, you can unset the checkbox to retain existing data.

• Label: Optionally label the partition to easily recognize individual partitions in other tooling.

• Name: You can name a partition, but standard partitions are named automatically when they're created.

Kdump is enabled by default and the amount of memory reserved for Kdump is calculated automatically. Select the Manual option to set the amount of reserved memory yourself.

By default, network configuration uses DHCP for IPv4 addresses. IPv6 addresses are configured automatically. The default settings are enough for the system to provide basic network functionality. However, you can customize the network configuration, for example, by providing a custom host name, or including a fully qualified domain name (FQDN). You can further opt to use static addresses instead of using DHCP, configure proxy settings, network bonds, and so on. To perform custom configuration, select Configure and follow the prompts on the other configuration screens.

By default, the root account is disabled for security reasons. If you enable the root account, you must also set and confirm the root password.

Password strength is monitored and the following rules are applied:

• Password must be eight characters or longer

• Password contains numbers, letters (uppercase and lowercase) and symbols

• Password is case-sensitive

If you have entered a weak password, you must confirm it by pressing the Done button twice.

A checkbox lets you configure whether to enable access to the root account over SSH. This option is disabled by default.

The following options are available:

• Full name: Enter the full name of the user account. This field is used to show the user account in the graphical login manager.

• User name: Enter the username that the user uses to sign in to the system on the command line or by using SSH.

• Add administrative privileges to this user account: Set the checkbox if the user requires administrative privileges. The user is added to the wheel group, which is in the sudoers configuration by default.

  An administrator user can use the sudo command to perform tasks that are only available to root by using the user password, instead of the root password.

• Require a password to use this account: Set this checkbox to require a password to sign in to the system. Always set this checkbox, especially if you configure the user account with administrative privileges.

• Password: Enter the user password into this field.

• Confirm password: Enter a matching user password into this field.

Password strength is monitored and the following rules are applied:

• Password must be eight characters or longer

• Password contains numbers, letters (uppercase and lowercase) and symbols

• Password is case-sensitive

Weak passwords are allowed, but require that you press the Done button twice.

After the options are configured, the Advanced button becomes available to let you configure other user account options, such as the home directory location for the user, different values for user ID or group ID, and a list of groups that the account belongs to.