Installation guide

Important — mandatory for installation on multipath
devices
If you install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11 on a network storage device accessible
through multiple paths, you must boot the installation process with this option. If you
do not specify this option at boot time, installation will fail, or the system will fail to
boot after installation completes.
noeject
do not eject optical discs after installation. This option is useful in remote installations
where it is difficult to close the tray afterwards.
noprobe
this command disables hardware detection and instead prompts the user for hardware
information.
rescue
this command runs rescue mode. Refer to Chapter 27, Basic System Recovery for more
information about rescue mode.
text
this command disables the graphical installation program and forces the installation
program to run in text mode.
vnc
this command allows you to install from a VNC server.
vncpassword=
this command sets the password used to connect to the VNC server.
noipv6
this command disables the default selection of ipv6 options during the installer stage 1
processing. Ipv6 settings may still be made manually if this option is specified, but the
default behavior will be that Ipv6 settings are not enabled.
cmdline
The 3270 console (most often used during installation on IBM System z) does not
recognize terminal formatting entries common to most unix-style terminals. Specifying this
option changes the behavior of anaconda during kickstart installations so that console
output on the 3270 is much better. This option should not be used for regular, interactive
installations.
RUNKS=1
This option is used to specify (usually in conjunction with the cmdline option) kickstart
installation for IBM System z.
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