Install Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 on VMware Workstation - Part 1

Double click the Vmware workstation icon on the desktop and prepare the new virtual machine setup
 Click on the new virtual machine icon:

Select Typical option on the Virtual Machine creation wizard

Guest operating system page will appear, There are 3 options available for installing Guest OS:

Install disk - Install guest OS from CD/DVD

Installer images file - Location of image file

Select install later - This option allow you to create a virtual machine without installation.

First 2 option start installation immediately after the creation of virtual machine ,but last option just create the virtual machine only, installation should be done manually.

Now select the guest operating system that you want to install

Enter the location of virtual machine

Enter the disk capacity

Summary page will pear click finish to create the virtual machine

Following page will appear after finish the creation of virtual machine