Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - VIRTUAL SERVER ADMINISTRATION, Руководство по установке

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Chapter 2. Steps to Get You Started
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Installing from a CD-ROM or DVD requires that you have purchased a Red Hat Enterprise Linux
product, you have a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 CD-ROM or DVD, and you have a DVD/CD-ROM
drive on a system that supports booting from it.
If you do not already have a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 CD set or DVD, you can download one
as an
ISO image file
from the Red Hat Network. Visit
https://rhn.redhat.com
and enter your Login
and Password. Click on the
Download Software
link to obtain a list of all currently supported Red
Hat Enterprise Linux products. If you do not already have a Login and Password for the Red Hat
Network, visit
https://www.redhat.com/apps/download/
to purchase a subscription or obtain a free
evaluation subscription. When you have obtained the image file, you can burn it to disk with the
following procedure:
The exact series of steps that produces a CD from an image file varies greatly from computer to
computer, depending on the operating system and disc burning software installed. Use this procedure
as a general guide. You might be able to omit certain steps on your computer, or might have to
perform some of the steps in a different order from the order described here.
Make sure that your disc burning software is capable of burning discs from image files. Although this is
true of most disc burning software, exceptions exist.
In particular, note that the CD burning feature built into Windows XP and Windows Vista cannot burn
CDs from images and that earlier Windows operating systems did not have any CD burning capability
installed by default. Therefore, if your computer has a Windows operating system installed on it, you
need a separate piece of software for this task. Examples of popular CD burning software for Windows
that you might already have on your computer include
Nero Burning ROM
and
Roxio Creator
. If you
use a Windows operating system on your computer and do not have disc burning software installed
(or you are not sure that the software can burn discs from image files)
InfraRecorder
is a suitable
alternative available from
http://www.infrarecorder.org/
, and is free and open-source.
The
Disk Utility
software installed by default with Mac OS X on Apple computers has the capability to
burn CDs from images built into it already. Most widely-used CD burning software for Linux, such as
Brasero
and
K3b
, also includes this capability.
1. Insert a blank, writeable CD into your computer's CD or DVD burner. On some computers, a
window opens and displays various options when you insert the disc. If you see a window like
this, look for an option to launch your chosen disc burning program. If you do not see an option
like this, close the window and launch the program manually.
2. Launch your disc burning program. On some computers, you can do this by right-clicking (or
control-clicking) on the image file and selecting a menu option with a label like
Copy image
to CD
, or
Copy CD or DVD image
. Other computers might provide you with a menu option to
launch your chosen disc burning program, either directly or with an option like
Open With
. If
none of these options are available on your computer, launch the program from an icon on your
desktop, in a menu of applications such as the
Start
menu on Windows operating systems, or in
the Mac
Applications
folder.
3. In your disc burning program, select the option to burn a CD from an image file. For example, in
Nero Burning ROM
, this option is called
Burn Image
and is located on the
File
menu.
Note that you can skip this step when using certain CD burning software; for example,
Disk
Utility
on Mac OS X does not require it.
4. Browse to the disc image file that you downloaded previously and select it for burning.
5. Click the button that starts the burning process.