Installation guide

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 dir-

ectory containing the variant/ directory for your architecture. For example, if the HTTP site con-

tains the directory /mirrors/redhat/arch/variant/, enter /mirrors/redhat/arch/ (where arch is

replaced with the architecture type of your system, such as i386, ia64, ppc, or s390x, and vari-

ant is the variant that you are installing, such as Client, Server, Workstation, etc.). If everything

was specified properly, a message box appears indicating that files are being retrieved from the

server.

Figure 4.7. HTTP Setup Dialog

Next, the Welcome dialog appears.

Tip

You can save disk space by using the ISO images you have already copied to the

server. To accomplish 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 RHEL5-discX.iso discX

11. Welcome to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

The Welcome screen does not prompt you for any input. From this screen you can access the

11. Welcome to Red Hat Enterprise Linux