Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE SERVER 4.1.0, Installation Manual

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Chapter 4.
Installation
This chapter describes the initial installation of the RHN Satellite Server. It presumes the
prerequisites listed in Chapter 2 Requirements have been met. If you are instead upgrad-
ing to a newer version of RHN Satellite Server, contact your Red Hat representative for
assistance.
4.1. Base Install
The RHN Satellite Server is designed to run on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS operating
system. Therefore, the first phase is to install the base operating system, either from disc,
ISO image, or kickstart. During and after operating system installation, make sure you:
•
Allocate plenty of space to the partitions storing data. The default location for channel
packages is
/var/satellite/
. For RHN Satellite Server with Embedded Database,
remember the database RPMs go in the
/opt/
partition, while the database itself is built
in
/rhnsat/
. Refer to Section 2.2 Hardware Requirements for precise specifications.
•
Enable Network Time Protocol (NTP) on the Satellite and separate database, if it exists,
and select the appropriate time zone. All client systems should already be running the
ntpd
daemon and be set to the correct time zone.
•
Due to potential complications, it is strongly advised that the
/home/
partition is locally
mounted.
4.2. RHN Satellite Server Installation Program
The following instructions describe how to run the RHN Satellite Server Installation
Program :
1. Log into the machine as root.
2. Insert the RHN Satellite Server CD containing the installation files or download the
ISO image from the RHN website.
3. If you are installing from CD, Red Hat Enterprise Linux may automount the CD. If
it does so, it will mount the CD to the
/media/cdrom/
directory.
If Red Hat Enterprise Linux does not automount the CD, manually mount it to the
/media/cdrom/
directory with the following command:
mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom