To prepare an NFS server that can be used for Red Hat installations,
you need to mirror the following parts of redhat-2.0
, while
maintaining the directory structure, from one of the Red Hat mirrors:
RedHat/RPMS
RedHat/base
images/
If you wish to use the X based installation you will also need:
RedHat/instimage
It is important that the exectuable permissions on the files in
RedHat/instimage
are preserved! An easy way to ensure this
is to use the following in your mirror config:
mode_copy=true
do_deletes=true
make_bad_symlinks=true
which also preserves a number of important symlinks which might otherwise be improperly mirrored.
After mirroring you simply need to export the toplevel redhat-2.0
directory.
Making the boot and ramdisks from a CD-ROM or over NFS is almost exactly as described in the ``Getting the Boot Images'' section for the FTP install, but it is even easier if you are already running Linux.
If you are running Linux (or some form of UNIX) you can simply run the
mkfloppies.pl
Perl script, which prompts you for your hardware
and creates the proper boot and ramdisks for you. It is as simple as that.
If you are making the floppies from DOS, you need to choose the proper
bootXXX.img
file and write the three floppies as described above
in the FTP install section.
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