Chapter 1. Installing the software
$ \/bin/su -
Password: password
#
Figure 1-1. Changing to be root
Unix Support keeps the Red Hat distributions on an NFS server
nfs-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk in the directory /linux/redhat. To access it we will create
a directory to mount the server’s directory tree on, mount it, install the packages
and then unmount the distribution again.
# mkdir /mnt/redhat
# mount -o ro nfs-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk:/linux/redhat /mnt/redhat
# cd /mnt/redhat
# ls
5.2 7.1 8.0 code enterprise rawhide
6.2 7.2 9 contrib local_extras updates
7.0 7.3 beta current preview
Figure 1-2. Mounting the NFS server’s Red Hat Linux distributions
Next, we will move to the directory that has the packages for the specific version
of Red Hat Linux that we run. Red Hat have distributions for various different lan-
guages and hardware types. Each of these is available at various different versions.
We start by identifying these to navigate to a directory which is the contents of the
corresponding Red Hat CD.
Locating the CD image
• Version: We are using version 9.
• Language: We want the English language version, identified by code en. Actually,
Unix Support only mirrors the English versions.
• Product: Red Hat distribute a variety of products including the operating system.
They also ship documentation, extra utilities etc. We want the operating system
product, identified by os.
• Architecture: We want the Intel architecture, identified by code i386.
# pwd
/mnt/redhat
# cd 9/en/os/i386
# ls
autorun README.zh_CN
dosutils README.zh_TW
EULA RedHat
GPL RELEASE-NOTES
images RELEASE-NOTES-de.html
isolinux RELEASE-NOTES-es.html
jpk RELEASE-NOTES-fr.html
README RELEASE-NOTES.html
README-Accessibility RELEASE-NOTES-it.html
README.de RELEASE-NOTES-ja.html
README.es RELEASE-NOTES-ko.html
README.fr RELEASE-NOTES-zh_CN.html
README.it RELEASE-NOTES-zh_TW.html
README.ja RPM-GPG-KEY
README.ko SRPMS
Figure 1-3. Navigating to the CD image
This has brought us to the copy of the relevant Red Hat Linux CD. Now we have to
locate the packages. These can be found in the subdirectory RedHat/RPMS.
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