Installation guide

Note
In the following examples, the directory on the installation staging server that will contain the
installation files will be specified as /location/of/disk/space. The directory that will be
made publicly available via FTP, NFS, or HTTP will be specified as /publicly/available/directory.
For example, /location/of/disk/space may be a directory you create called /var/isos.
/publicly/available/directory might be /var/www/html/rhel5, for an HTTP install.
To copy the files from the installation DVD or CD-ROMs to a Linux machine which acts as an
installation staging server, perform the following steps:
Create an iso image from the installation disk(s) using the following command (for DVD s):
dd if=/dev/dvd of=/location/of/disk/space/RHEL5.iso
where dvd refers to your DVD drive device.
2.5.1. 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.
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