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To run the hash on your ISO from Windows with 7-Zip, RIGHT CLICK on the ISO you wish to hash.

Important note: Oracle employees should download 7-Zip from MyDesktop Some are 'free', others require a paid license.ħ-Zip is an open source based free utility recent versions include a nice addition to the Windows Context menu that includes a SHA hashing tool. There are many Windows based file hashing utilities available. So ALWAYS check the hash of these large ISO files.See this link for instructions to verify the ISO download: In most cases you only need to download the 'Full ISO' image.Īnother very important task is to verify the downloaded image! Even with high speed broadband, anything can happen en route.

If BalenaEtcher does not work for you, try Rufus or another USB utility.Īn easy place to download the Oracle Linux ISOs is the Oracle Yum Server - no login required: If you create a bootable USB media that does not work on your system, try a different brand of USB stick - or a larger one. Support of these utilities are not covered by Oracle.Īlso note: Creating bootable USB media can be tricky. The suggested use of third party tools (such as balenaEtcher or Rufus) are provided here as a convenience. Note that using Oracle Linux to create the USB Installation Media is the only method supported by Oracle. So instructions for Windows, Mac, and Linux users will be shown! I realize that not everyone has access to an Oracle Linux machine to do this. The Oracle documented method of creating Oracle Linux USB Installation Media can be found in the Oracle Linux documentation:

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How to properly place that image on a USB memory stick, creating a USB installation media for Oracle Linux.How to run a checksum hash on the downloaded image to make sure it was not corrupted during the download.Choosing the correct image for installation.That's the purpose of this article - a one-stop place to learn how to create a bootable USB memory stick to be used as the Oracle Linux installation media for 'real' hardware. Others had corrupted downloads or were attempting to burn a large ISO (Oracle Linux 8) on single layer DVD-ROM. Some were downloading the wrong ISO image. Over time I have noticed a growing trend of folks experiencing difficulties with installing recent versions of Oracle Linux on 'real' hardware. Many newer machines do not have an optical drive.

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But there are still folks that want to install Oracle Linux on 'real' hardware - an older server, laptop, or desktop machine. Large ISO images are not a problem for installing Oracle Linux in VirtualBox just mount up the ISO image and go. With Oracle Linux 8 - it's grown so large that efforts to contain it have been largely abandoned. While dual layer drives are now commonplace, the availability of dual layer media (and it's cost) kept it from becoming mainstream. It's been a struggle to keep the Oracle Linux 7 images within the 4.7GB boundaries of a single layer DVD image.

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Oracle Linux 8 Update 5 (current OL8 release) Oracle Linux 8 Update 0 (first OL8 release) Oracle Linux 7 Update 7 (current OL7 release) Oracle Linux 6 Update 10 (final OL6 release) Oracle Linux 5 Update 2 (first DVD release) The first DVD writable DVD drives and media were Single Layer with a capacity of about 4.7GBīelow is a chart that shows how the x86_64 version of the ISO image has grown over the years: Eventually, dealing with multiple CDROM images became unwieldy and the DVD image became very common. Oracle Linux 3, 4, and early versions of 5 were distributed with multi-volume CDROM images. Early Linux distributions came on multiple 'floppy' disks! The first convenient common media was the CD-R with a capacity of about 650MB. Recent versions of Oracle Linux contain more packages than older ones.Īs Linux grew it became a challenge to contain the distribution within the boundaries of the commonly used media of the time. Recent versions of Linux are now 64-bit binaries only, and those binaries are bigger than their 32-bit predecessors. Long gone are the days of installing Linux from floppies! As the OS has matured, it has grown up.

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