3. Installing RHEL 8 on a Clean Disk Drive
There are now two ways in which a RHEL 8 system can be deployed. One method is to either purchase new hardware or re-purpose an existing computer system on which to install and run the operating system. Another option is to create a cloud-based operating system instance using services such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure (to name but a few). Since cloud-based instances are typically created by selecting a pre-configured, ready to run operating system image that is already optimized for the cloud platform, and using that as the basis for the RHEL system, there is no need to perform a manual operating system installation in this situation.
If, on the other hand, you plan to install RHEL 8 on your own hardware, the first step on the path to learning about Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 involves installing the operating system.
RHEL can be installed either in a clean disk environment (where an entire disk is cleared of any existing...