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Chapter 2. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 13
The Select Partition screen applies only if you are installing from a disk partition (that is, if you
selected Hard Drive in the Installation Method dialog). This dialog allows you to name the disk
partition and directory from which you are installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Enter the device name of the partition containing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux ISO images. There is
also a field labeled Directory holding images.
If the ISO images are in the root (top-level) directory of that partition, enter the path to the ISO images
(for example, if the partition on which the ISO images are located is normally mounted as ,
/home/
and the images are in , you would enter ).
/home/new/ new
If the ISO images are not in the root (top-level) directory of that partition, enter the full path to the ISO
images (for example, if the ISO images are located in , you would enter ).
/test/new/ /test/new/
After you have identified the disk partition, the Welcome dialog appears.

2.5. Installing via NFS

The NFS dialog applies only if you are installing from an NFS server (if you selected NFS Image in
the Installation Method dialog).
Enter the domain name of your NFS server. For example, if you are installing from a host named
in the NFS Server field.
in the domain , enter
eastcoast example.com eastcoast.example.com
Next, enter the name of the exported directory. If you followed the setup described in Section 1.3
Preparing for a Network Installation, you would enter the directory
/location/of/disk/space/
which contains the directory.
RedHat/
If the NFS server is exporting a mirror of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation tree, enter
the directory which contains the directory. (If you do not know this directory
RedHat/
path, ask your system administrator.) For example, if the NFS site contains the directory
, enter (where arch is replaced
/mirrors/redhat/arch/RedHat/ /mirrors/redhat/arch/
with the architecture type of your system, such as i386, ia64, ppc, or s390). If everything was
specified properly, a message appears indicating that the installation program for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux is running.
Figure 2-3. NFS Setup Dialog
If the NFS server is exporting the ISO images of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD-ROMs, enter the
directory which contains the ISO images.
Next, the Welcome dialog appears.