Installation guide

where dvd refers to your DVD drive device.
11.5.1. Preparing for FT P and HT T P inst allat ion
If you are setting up an installation tree for NFS, FTP, or HTTP installations, you must copy the
RELEASE-NOTES files and all files from the RedHat directory on all operating systems ISO images.
On Linux and UNIX systems, the following process will properly configure the target directory on your
server (repeat for each CD -ROM/ISO image):
1. Insert CD-ROM or D VD-ROM.
2. mount /media/cdrom
3. If you are installing the Server variant, run cp -a /media/cdrom/Server <target-
directory>
If you are installing the Client variant, run cp -a /media/cdrom/Client <target-
directory>
4. cp /media/cdrom/RELEASE-NOTES* <target-directory> (Installation CD 1 or DVD
only)
5. cp /media/cdrom/images <target-directory> (Installation CD 1 or D VD only)
6. umount /media/cdrom
(Where <target-directory> represents the path to the directory to contain the installation tree.)
Note
Do not copy the Supplementary ISO image, or any of the layered product ISO images, as this
will overwrite files necessary for Anaconda's proper operation.
These ISO images must be installed after Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been installed.
Next make sure that the /publicly/available/directory directory is shared via FTP or HTTP,
and verify client access. You can check to see whether the directory is accessible from the server
itself, and then from another machine on the same subnet that you will be installing to.
11.5.2. Preparing for an NFS inst all
For NFS installation it is not necessary to mount the iso image. It is sufficient to make the iso image
itself available via NFS. You can do this by moving the iso image or images to the NFS exported
directory:
For DVD:
mv /location/of/disk/space/RHEL5.iso /publicly/available/directory/
For CDROMs:
mv /location/of/disk/space/disk*.iso /publicly/available/directory/
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