Chapter 1. Steps to Get You Started
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1.5. Can You Install Using the CD-ROM?
Installing from a CD-ROM requires that you have purchased a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 product,
or you have a Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD-ROM, and you have a CD-ROM drive. If your system
supports booting from the CD-ROM, it is an easy way to begin a local CD-ROM installation.
1.6. Preparing for a Network Installation
Note
Make sure an installation CD (or any other type of CD) is not your hosting partition’s drive if you are
performing a network-based installation. Having a CD in the drive may cause unexpected errors.
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation media must be available for either a network installation
(via NFS, FTP, or HTTP) or installation via local storage. Use the following steps if you are perform-
ing an NFS, FTP, or HTTP installation.
The NFS, FTP, or HTTP server to be used for installation over the network must be a seperate machine
which can provide the complete
RedHat/
directory. Both the
RedHat/base/
and
RedHat/RPMS/
directories must be available and populated with all files from all installation CD-ROMs.
Note
The directory specified in the following refers to
/location/of/disk/space/
. This means it is the
directory up to, but
not
including, the
RedHat/
distribution directory. For example, if you have Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 3 installation files located in
/export/redhat/
on the installation staging server,
/location/of/disk/space/
would be
/export/redhat/
.
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/redhat/
•
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/
accessible to the installation program via NFS, FTP,
or HTTP and verify access from a client.
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