Installation guide

Fig u re 17.3. FT P Set up Dialo g
Enter the name or IP address of the FTP site you are installing from, and the name of the directory
containing the variant/ directory for your architecture. For example, if the FTP site contains 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 variant 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.
Next, the Welcome dialog appears.
Note
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
Replace X with the corresponding disc number.
17.7. Inst alling via HT TP
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