Installation guide

Fig u re 12.4 . Select in g Part it io n Dialo g f or H ard Drive In st allat io n
Enter the device name of the partition containing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux ISO images. This
partition must be formatted with a ext2 or vfat filesystem, and cannot be a logical volume. There is
also a field labeled Directory holding images.
If the ISO images are in the root (top-level) directory of a partition, enter a /. If the ISO images are
located in a subdirectory of a mounted partition, enter the name of the directory holding the ISO
images within that partition. For example, if the partition on which the ISO images is normally
mounted as /home/, and the images are in /home/new/, you would enter /new/.
After you have identified the disk partition, the Welcome dialog appears.
12.8. Performing a Net work Inst allat ion
If you are performing a network installation and booted with the askmethod boot option, the
Configure TCP/IP dialog appears. This dialog asks for your IP and other network addresses. You
can choose to configure the IP address and Netmask of the device via DHCP or manually. If
manually, you have the option to enter IPv4 and/or IPv6 information. Enter the IP address you are
using during installation and press Enter. Note that you need to supply IPv4 information if you wish
to perform an NFS installation.
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