Installing and configuring the RHEL 6.4 golden image
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
— Albert Einstein
In this chapter, you install the copy of RHEL 6.4 that will be cloned. This will be referred to as the golden image. It should be as lean as possible to be a generic virtual server and to fit comfortably on two 3390-3 DASDs, or about 4.4 GB.
In this section, you perform the following tasks:

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