Installing from a CD-ROM or over NFS

# 4. Installing from a CD-ROM or over NFS

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## 4.1 Preparing an NFS Server for Installs

To prepare an NFS server that can be used for Red Hat installations, you need to mirror the following parts of `redhat-3.0.3`, 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-2.1` directory.

## 4.2 Making Boot and Ramdisks

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 `images/mkfloppies.pl` Perl script (on the CD-ROM or NFS volume), which prompts you for your hardware and creates the proper boot and ramdisks for you. It also runs the `savesetup.pl` script which saves a number of important network parameters and XFree86 configuration files. Just make sure and don't try and create the disks on a machine other than the one you are installing on using these scripts.

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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