Installation issues of OEL6 on win7 64bit

Question

I am trying to install Oracle Linux 6.4 X86_64 on my pc win 7 and its not enabling the "configure network" button , its greyed out.
any suggestions ?
Note: I am not installing the OEL6 under Oracle VM but directly on a secondary disk on my pc as main operating system. It does install and i can boot into it but without network.

Answer 1

Hi There
If the memory is OK, say you can give 4GB of RAM, then should not be too much difference, and you will benefit from having just the VM when you want to work on the EBS. Plus, your ebs will be 1 user EBS, so you won't complain too much about going slow. Task like 12.1.3 patch can take a while, but, you can leave them running, and won't be too much measurable how much faster will be on VM vs physical.
Take note you can gave more than 1 cpu to the VM, here will be a real benefit, give as much as physical cores you have to the VM.
For the second question, if you change the network of the virtual box guest from NAT to Bridge, then it will get an IP of the network where you are (office,home) and you will able to ssh, etc
This message is on the Linux forum, as your initial issue is fixed, the best is to close this thread, and open a new one in the EBS forum if you have more questions related to EBS rather than Linux.
Alvaro.