The Terms and Restrictions page will be displayed. Some versions of Oracle Linux were made available in both 32-bit and 64-bit variants, you can select that here. Once you have the items in your cart, click the Checkout link at the top right of the page.Ī new page will be displayed. The higher numbered Oracle Linux versions (more recent) are at the top of the list.Īdd the ones you want to your cart by clicking the "+ Add to Cart" button a brief icon will appear to confirm your selection. Since this list is the result of a search, there will be other "hits" displayed that are for products that run on Oracle Linux ignore those. You can click the "Oracle Linux" entry or wait for a few seconds and it will be selected automatically. Once logged in, enter "Oracle Linux" in the Search box results will begin to show automatically, and Oracle Linux should be at the top of the list. Note: you can click on the screenshots in this document to get a larger, more readable version.
Oracle Software Delivery Cloud requires an Oracle Single Sign On for access. The usual place to download Oracle Linux is the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud If BalenaEtcher does not work for you, try Rufus or another USB utility. 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:
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.
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.
Oracle Linux 8 Update 1 (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.