Using Iso Images For Nfs Installs; Preparing For A Hard Drive Installation; Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4 - INSTALLATION GUIDE FOR IBM S-390 AND IBM ESERVER ZSERIES Installation Manual

Chapter 1. Steps to Get You Started
If the directory does not appear in the NFS shared directory, the wrong path may
RedHat/
have been mounted and/or exported.
• FTP and HTTP installations also support a second type of tree structure. To make it easier to
access the contents of the installation CD-ROMs, mount each CD-ROM or ISO image with
the following mount point on the FTP or HTTP server (where
or ISO image):
/location/of/disk/space/discX/
For example:
mount -o loop CD1.iso /location/of/disk/space/disc1/

3.1. Using ISO Images for NFS Installs

NFS installations can use ISO (or CD-ROM) images rather than copying an entire installation
tree. After placing the required ISO images (the binary Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD-ROMs) in a
directory, choose to install via NFS. You will then point the installation program at that directory
to perform the installation.
Verifying that the ISO images are intact before you attempt an installation will help to avoid
problems that are often encountered during an NFS installation. To verify the ISO images are
intact prior to performing an installation, use an
available for various operating systems). An
server as the ISO images.
Additionally, if a file called
be used for installation program updates. Refer to the file
RPM package for detailed information on the various ways to install Red Hat
anaconda
Enterprise Linux, as well as how to apply the installation program updates.
Note
You can only have the ISO images for one release and one variant of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux in the directory.

4. Preparing for a Hard Drive Installation

4
md5sum
md5sum
exists in the directory from which you install, then it will
updates.img
is the number of the CD-ROM
X
program (many
md5sum
program should be available on the same
install-methods.txt
programs are
in the