Installation guide

mv /location/of/disk/space/RHEL5.iso /export/directory/
• For CDROMs:
mv /location/of/disk/space/disk*.iso /export/directory/
Ensure that the /export/directory directory is exported via NFS via an entry in /etc/exports.
To export to a specific system:
/export/directory client.ip.address(ro,no_root_squash)
To export to all systems use an entry such as:
/export/directory *(ro,no_root_squash)
Start the NFS daemon (on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system, 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 Deploy-
ment Guide.
5. Preparing for a Hard Drive Installation
Note
Hard drive installations using DASD or SCSI source storage only work from native
ext2 or ext3 partitions. If you have a file system based on devices other than native
ext2 or ext3 (particularly a file system based on RAID or LVM partitions) you will
not be able to use it as a source to perform a hard drive installation.
To prepare your system for a hard drive installation, you must set the system up in one of the
following ways:
• Using a set of CD-ROMs, or a DVD — Create ISO image files from each installation CD-
ROM, or from the DVD. For each CD-ROM (once for the DVD), execute the following com-
mand on a Linux system:
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/file-name.iso
This command may raise an error message when the data at the end of the CD-ROM is
reached which can be ignored. The ISO images created can now be used for installation,
once copied to the correct DASD.
• Using ISO images - transfer these to the system to be installed (or to the correct DASD or
SCSI devices).
Verifying that ISO images are intact before you attempt an installation, helps to avoid prob-
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