How to Install RHEL 10: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide

In this blog post, we will cover how to install RHEL 10 step-by-step along with the screenshots.

Red Hat has released it’s most stable and long-awaited Operating system RHEL 10 in May 2025. It brings lots of improvements specially towards AI/ML workloads, hybrid-cloud automation, and image-based system management. Whether you are deploying servers on-prem or in virtual environments, RHEL 10 is solid and future-ready choice.

System Requirements

Minimum 2GB RAM or more
64-bit x86 processor
2 CPUs or more
At least 20 GB hard disk space

Without any further delay, let’s jump into RHEL 10 installation steps.

1 ) Download RHEL 10 and Create Bootable Media

To download RHEL 10, visit its official portal , https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/rhel

Once the ISO file is downloaded, create the bootable installation media (USB drive). On Widows Operating system you can use Rufus to create bootable media and on Linux using following command.

sudo dd if=~/Downloads/rhel-10.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress

2) Boot from Installation Media

Now, go to the target system where you want to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10). Reboot the machine and enter the BIOS/UEFI settings. From there, change the boot order and set USB drive as the first boot medium instead of Disk.

Once the system restarts, it will boot from the USB installation media. On the boot screen, select “Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0″ to begin the installation process, as shown in the screenshot below:

3) Choose Your Preferred Language

Choose your preferred language for RHEL 10 installation.

Click on Continue.

4) Installation Summary Screen

We will now land on the Installation Summary screen where you can configure:

Date & Time
Keyboard Layout
Installation Source
Software Selection
Installation Destination (Storage)
User Settings
Network & Hostname

As we can see in above screen, we must first complete mandatory items like

Installation Destination.
User Settings
Software Selection
Time & Date

Click on Date & Time Item and select the correct time zone according to your location.

Click on Done, it will take us to Installation Summary screen.

Now move to Users Setting item. Set the root password and create local user and its credentials.

Select Root Account, Click on “Enable root account” and specify the root password as shown below:

Click on Done.

From the Installation summary, select “User Creation”, specify Local user full name, username and it’s password.

Click Done.

Once we are back on installation summary screen, click on Software Selection item,

Here you will get the options to selection software as per your need. In this demonstration, I will select “Server” under the Base environment and leave other options as it is.

Click on Done.

Now, select Installation Destination. Here you will see the following options for creating partitions on the disk:

Automatic – The installer will create the partitions automatically.
Custom – Allows you to create your own custom partitions.

In my case, I have 60 GB of disk space, and I will create the following custom partitions on it.

/boot = 2 GB (xfs file system)
/root = 25GB (xfs file system)
/home = 20 GB (xfs file system)
/var = 10 GB (xfs file system)
/swap = 2 GB
biosboot = 1MB

Note: This partition scheme ensures proper separation of system files, logs, and user data. Adjust sizes if your environment needs are different.

Choose ‘Custom’ option Under Storage Configuration and click on Done, it will take us to the following screen.

Create your first partition as boot of size 2 GB. Steps are shown below:

Click on ‘Add mount point‘

In order to create further partitions, click on plus (+) symbol.

Create / partition of size 25 GB,

Similarly create rest of partitions. /home partition of size 20 GB.

/var partition of size 10 GB

Now create last two partitions, swap of size 2 GB and bioboot fo 1 MB

Biosboot partition

It is needed when your system is using a GPT (GUID Partition Table) disk layout and the system firmware is legacy BIOS (not UEFI).

Click on Add mount point and then Click on Done from manual partition screen.

In following screen, click on “Accept Changes”

It will take us to installation summary screen, click on “Begin Installation“

5) Installation Progress

Below screen confirms that installation has started and is in progress.

Once the installation is completed, installer will prompt to reboot the system.

Click on Reboot System don’t forget to change boot medium from bios settings. So that the system boots up with hard disk.

6) Login to RHEL 10 System After Reboot

Once the system is back online after the reboot, we will get the following login screen. Use the same local user and its credentials that we have created during the installation.