Installation; Base Install; Rhn Satellite Installation Program - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.3.0 Installation Manual

Chapter 4.

Installation

This chapter describes the initial installation of the RHN Satellite. It presumes the prerequisites listed
Chapter 2, Requirements
in
Satellite, contact your Red Hat representative for assistance.

4.1. Base Install

The RHN Satellite is designed to run on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS operating system. Therefore,
the first phase is to install the base operating system, either from disc, ISO image, or kickstart. During
and after operating system installation, make sure you:
• Allocate plenty of space to the partitions storing data. The default location for channel packages
is /var/satellite/. For RHN Satellite with Embedded Database, remember the database
RPMs go in the /opt/ partition, while the database itself is built in /rhnsat/. Refer to
"Hardware Requirements"
• Enable Network Time Protocol (NTP) on the Satellite and separate database, if it exists, and select
the appropriate time zone. All client systems should already be running the ntpd daemon and be
set to the correct time zone.
• Due to potential complications, it is strongly advised that the /home/ partition is locally mounted.

4.2. RHN Satellite Installation Program

The following instructions describe how to run the RHN Satellite Installation Program:
Important
Due to potential complications, it is strongly advised that the /home/ partition is locally
mounted.
1. Log into the machine as root.
2. Insert the RHN Satellite Server CD containing the installation files or download the ISO image
from the RHN website.
3. If you are installing from CD, Red Hat Enterprise Linux may automount the CD. If it does so, it will
mount the CD to the /media/cdrom/ directory.
If Red Hat Enterprise Linux does not automount the CD, manually mount it to the /media/
cdrom/ directory with the following command:
mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
If you are installing from an ISO, mount the file from within the directory containing it using the
command:
mount -o loop iso_filename /media/cdrom
have been met. If you are instead upgrading to a newer version of RHN
for precise specifications.
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