METHOD OF INSTALLING LINUX

CD-ROM

•If you are going to install Red Hat Linux from CD-ROM, select ``CD-ROM'', and select Ok. The installation program will then prompt you to insert your Red Hat Linux CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive

•The installation program will then probe your system, and attempt to identify your CD-ROM drive.

•It will start by looking for an IDE (also known as ATAPI) CD-ROM drive. if one is found,the installation will continue.If the installation program cannot automatically detect your CD-ROM drive.

•The installation program will ask you to choose a SCSI driver. Choose the driver that most closely resembles your adapter. You may specify options for the driver if necessary.However, most drivers will detect your SCSI adapter automatically.

•If the DVD/CD-ROM drive is found and the driver loaded, the installer will present you with the option to perform a media check on the CD-ROM. If later encounter problems with the installer, you should reboot and perform the media check before calling for support. From the media check dialog, continue to the next stage of the installation process.

FTP

•If you selected FTP in the Installation Method dialog. The FTP dialog will applies to installing from an FTP server.This dialog allows you to identify the FTP server from which you are installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

•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 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 for the installation process.

NFS

•If you selected NFS image.The NFS dialog will applies to installing from an NFS server.

•Enter the domain name or IP address of your NFS server. For example, if you are installing from a host named kanga in the domain redhat.com, enter kanga.redhat.com in the NFS Server field.

•If the NFS server is exporting a mirror of the Red Hat Linux installation tree instead of a CD, enter the directory which contains the RedHat directory. For example, if your NFS server contains the directory /mirrors/redhat/i386/RedHat, enter /mirrors/redhat/i386. If the NFS server is exported directory that contains the Red Hat Linux CD.The Red Hat Linux CD mounted on /mnt/cdrom, enter /mnt/cdrom in Red Hat directory.

•If everything was specified properly, a message appears indicating that the installation program for Red Hat Enterprise Linux is running.

HTTP

•The HTTP dialog will applies to installing from an HTTP server if you selected HTTP in the Installation Method dialog.

•Enter the name or IP address of the HTTP site you are installing from, and the name of the directory containing the variant/ directory for your architecture. For example, if the HTTP 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, next,the welcome dialog will appears.

SMB

•If you selected SMB image.The SMB dialog will applies to installing from an SMB server.

•Entered all the necessary network information in the ``SMB Setup'' dialog box. This is where you'll specify which SMB server, share volume and account information the installation program should use.

•First,Enter the SMB server name. It's important to note that the name expected here is the server's Microsoft Networking name, and not a fully qualified domain name.

•Next, enter the name of the shared volume. Since different implementations of the SMB protocol handle share names differently. Entering the share name in lower case seems to work best.

•Then, enter the account name and password. In general, the account name should be guest. A password (which is case-sensitive) must be present.

•After entering all the required information, select Ok and the welcome dialog will appears.

VNC

•On the "Boot : " prompt write the below command with the "hostip" to access that server, "vnc=1" to enable VNC service at the time of installation & set the "vncpassword" to access.

•After that,it will ask you to choose prefer language, choose language and click OK.Then,the next step you must choose "Keyboard Type" selection, Select Keyboard and click OK.

•Now it'll ask you to "Configure Connectivity", here you can choose want to provide manual IP or on DHCP IP. The figure below is example with going "Manual configuration“ and select OK.

• Next step,it will show you a manual IP configuration window, provide correct ip, subnet  mask, gateway and dns, then click OK.

•To installed VNC client on other machine.You can install it by run the command " #yum install vnc ". After installing VNC, go to Applications > Accessories > VNC Viewer  and enter the IP configuration.

•Enter Password and click Enter.

•Lastly,you can instalI window through VNC .