On the left 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 language support consists of specifying other locales of the selected language that you want the system to support. 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 pane, select other languages for the system. Then, on the right pane, select from the available locales for that language.

The Date & Time screen enables you to set the following options:

• Time zone for the system
• Actual time and the format for displaying time
• Current date

To select the system's time zone, click an area on the map that approximates the site that you want the system to be located. Or, you can select from the Region and City drop down lists to specify that location.

To specify time, time format, and date, click the appropriate buttons at the bottom of the screen.

To enable NTP, switch the Network Time switch at the upper right corner of the screen to ON. Click Settings to display a dialog box, where you can configure the NTP servers that the system would use. You can skip configuring NTP until later by using the Chrony suite. See Oracle Linux 8: Setting Up Networking. 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 additional 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.

To install extra packages from other sources, use the Additional repositories box to add those sources, and then provide the necessary information about those sources in the text fields next to the box.

Each Base Environment represents a base set of functionalities and the required packages and software to fulfill those functionalities. By default, the Server with GUI environment is used. Choose the base environment that best fits the purpose of the system on which you're installing Oracle Linux. From the right pane, you can add other profiles to the base environment that you selected on the left pane. The other profiles group packages that you might need to perform different functions on the system.

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 click 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:

• Automatic: radio button enables automatic partitioning.
  • 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 click the Done button.
• Custom: radio button enables custom partitioning. If you set this option, the Manual Partitioning configuration page is displayed after you click the Done button.

Manual Partitioning

Detected mount points are listed in the left pane in the window. Mount points are grouped by any detected operating system installations. Options for each mount point are displayed in the right pane when you click a mount point in the left pane.

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 click 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 pane, and click 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 support for 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.

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

Network connections are disabled during an Oracle Linux 8 installation. To enable the network, select an interface from the list of interfaces on the left panel of the Network & Host Name window, then toggle the switch at the upper right corner of the screen to ON.

By default, network configuration uses DHCP for IPv4 addresses. IPv6 addresses are configured automatically. The default settings are sufficient for the system to provide basic network functionality. However, you can customize the network configuration, for example, by providing a custom host name, 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 do these advanced types of configuration, click Configure and go through other configuration screens.

Available policies are listed in the profile window. These security policies follow the recommendations and guidelines that are defined by the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) standard. Select the security profile you want to enforce and ensure that the Apply security policy is switched to On.

If you prefer not apply any security policy, toggle the switch to Off.

For more information on SCAP policies and profiles, see Oracle Linux 8: Using OpenSCAP for Security Compliance.

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 login to the system on the command line or by using SSH.

• Make this user administrator: 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 for login. Always set this checkbox, particularly 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 permitted, 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, an alternative user ID value, an alternative group ID value, and a list of groups that the account belongs to.