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22 Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Figure 4-5. FTP Setup Dialog

Enter the name or IP address of the FTP site you are installing from, and the name of the directory

containing the RedHat/ installation ﬁles for your architecture. For example, if the FTP site contains

the directory /mirrors/redhat/arch/RedHat/, enter /mirrors/redhat/arch/ (where arch

is replaced with the architecture type of your system, such as i386, ia64, ppc, or s390). If everything

was speciﬁed properly, a message box appears indicating that base/hdlist is being retrieved.

Next, the Welcome dialog appears.

Tip

You can save disk space by using the ISO images you have already copied to the server. To accom-

plish this, install Red Hat Enterprise Linux using ISO images without copying them into a single tree

by loopback mounting them. For each ISO image:

mkdir discX

mount -o loop example-1.iso discX

4.10. Installing via HTTP

The HTTP dialog applies only if you are installing from an HTTP server (if you selected HTTP in the

Installation Method dialog). This dialog prompts you for information about the HTTP server from

which you are installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Enter the name or IP address of the HTTP site you are installing from, and the name of the directory

containing the RedHat/ installation ﬁles for your architecture. For example, if the HTTP site contains

the directory /mirrors/redhat/arch/RedHat/, enter /mirrors/redhat/arch/ (where arch

is replaced with the architecture type of your system, such as i386, ia64, ppc, or s390). If everything

was speciﬁed properly, a message box appears indicating that base/hdlist is being retrieved.