Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 3 - FOR IBM S-390 AND IBM ESERVER ZSERIES, Installation Manual

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directory. For example, if you have Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0.0 installation
files located in
/export/rhel/
on the installation staging server,
/location/of/disk/space/
would be
/export/rhel/
.
To copy the
RedHat/
directory from the installation CD-ROMs to a Linux machine which acts as
an installation staging server, perform the following steps:
• For each binary CD-ROM, execute the following commands:
•
mount /mnt/cdrom
•
cp -var /mnt/cdrom/RedHat /location/of/disk/space
where
/location/of/disk/space/
is a directory you create such as
/export/rhel/
•
umount /mnt/cdrom/
• Note that the Release Notes are not included in the
RedHat
directory. Unless they are
specifically copied over, the Release Notes will not be available during your installation of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux. The Release Notes are formatted in HTML files located at the root of
the disc. Copy the files to your installation directory. For example:
cp /mnt/cdrom/RELEASE-NOTES*.html /location/of/disk/space/
The Release Notes are also available online from http://www.redhat.com/docs/ .
• Next, make
/location/of/disk/space/
available for network installation via NFS, FTP, or
HTTP and verify access from a client system.
• For NFS, export the directory by adding an entry to
/etc/exports
to export to a specific
system:
/location/of/disk/space client.ip.address(ro,no_root_squash)
To export to all machines (not appropriate for all NFS systems), add:
/location/of/disk/space *(ro,no_root_squash)
Start the NFS daemon (on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux machine, use
/sbin/service nfs
start
). If NFS is already running, reload the configuration file (on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux
system, use
/sbin/service nfs reload
).
Be sure to test the NFS share following the directions in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux System
Administration Guide.
Preparing for a Network Installation
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