How to chango from Win2003 Server to RedHat ?

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Hi everybody,

I own two pieces of the former Dell PowerEdge T110, setup up both with Win2003 Server and the problem is that I don't have any credentials to login into the system to have their disks prepared to setup RedHat Linux.

I've been trying several methods (USB, Net boot, etc) in order to getting my disk formatted and got no success.

Any piece of help?

Thanks in advance,
Jorge.
 


Do you have a monitor or a consol conected?
If yes, just insert your live USB go to boot-menu and choose your stick.
Then start the installer.
 
I've found rufus to work pretty good when burning an iso from Windows to a USB drive.
https://rufus.ie/

To download redhat you need an account. You can download CentOS which is free, but a little behind. For example Redhat 8.0 is released, but CentOS is still on 7.6.
Other Linux's that are similar to Redhat are Oracle (unbreakable) Linux, Scientific Linux, and Fedora. Fedora is more of what Redhat will be in the future.
It typically has much newer versions of everything, but is considered slightly less table because everything isn't "burn-in" tested.

Generally when you install any of these distros' there is a screen to create a root account, and at least one other login account.
Generally you don't have "setup" the disks in advance. However you DO have to boot from the USB drive. You can either go into the BIOS/UEFI or sometimes
there is a "Boot Menu" option. Sometimes the USB device will be listed twice. Once as a USB device, and then again as a USB/UEFI device. I would recommend using the UEFI
option is it shows up.

Once the install OS boots up, one of the screen options is "destination drive". If there are multiple hard drives in the computer you'll need to know if advance which one
to use. If it is a single hard drive with multiple partitions things can be a little trickier. You have to know which partition(s) to install to. Otherwise it's possible you might delete
the Windows partition of hard drive.

Once you decide which drive to install to, you may get a pop-up message that says this drive or partition already has an OS installed and there isn't enough room
to install this OS. It will give an option to delete the current partition(s) on the disk. (Be careful with this if you are trying to preserve a Windows system)
Just go ahead a choose "delete all" on the partition or drive you want to use.

Generally there is a "auto format/auto partition" option. But if you feel comfortable manually creating your own partitions you can do that as well.
There are a few rules when creating Linux boot drive partitions. (/biosboot vs /efiboot etc...) If you're not familiar with this, just go with the auto-defaults.
 

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