Install Red Hat Linux

Install Red Hat Linux
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Purpose

This topic describes the steps to install Red Hat Linux on a Lucent CM server.

Important! This procedure must be performed on all Lucent CM server nodes.

Before you begin

You only need the first three CD-ROMs to complete installation.

Install Red Hat Linux

Important! The installation steps are divided into groups of related installation settings. This division is for ease of use only. The installation is performed as one single continuous procedure.

Perform the following steps to install Red Hat Linux:

Insert CD 1 in the CD-ROM drive and reboot by entering CTRL-ALT-DEL.

Result: The server boots and Red Hat Install automatically launches.

Follow the instructions of the installation program and select or enter the following, when prompted:

Option

Select or enter

Next (to select Graphical Interface)

Welcome to RedHat Enterprise Linux

Language Selection

English

Keyboard Configuration

US English

Mouse Configuration

3 Button Mouse

Disk Partitioning Setup

Automatic Partitioning

Remove all Linux partitions on this system

Warning window

Yes

Disk Setup

(Example is of an 80 Gigabyte Drive)

Hard Drives
Free Free Space <1mb
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 102mb
/dev/sda2 /   ext3 74222mb
/dev/sda3    swap 1992mb
Free   Free  Space 2mb

Boot Loader Configuration

Use default settings

Define network devices eth0 and eth1:

Option	Select or enter
Network Configuration	Highlight eth0 Click Edit Select `Active on Boot` for eth0 device Uncheck `Configure using DHCP` Enter external IP address Enter netmask Select OK
Network Configuration	Highlight eth1 Click Edit Select `Active on Boot` for eth1 device Uncheck `Configure using DHCP` Enter internal IP address Enter netmask Select OK
Hostname	Enter external FQDN host name
Miscellaneous Settings	Enter gateway IP address for the external network Enter Primary DNS IP address Enter Secondary DNS IP address (optional) Enter Tertiary DNS IP address (optional) Next

Continue with the following configuration steps:

Option	Select or enter
Firewall Configuration	Select No Firewall Next
Additional Language Support	English (USA) Next
Time Zone Selection	Enter your time zone Next
Set Root Password	Enter a password Confirm password Next
Package Installation Defaults	Select “Customize the sets of packages that must be installed”. Next

Continue with the following configuration steps.

Select only the options that are listed in the table. Leave the default values for other options.

The numbers in the parentheses are the numbers that are listed when you have completed the selections.

Option	Select or enter
Desktops	None selected
Editor (1/5)	Remove Emacs Remove nedit
Servers	None selected
Development Tools (25/62)	Uncheck all, except: expect memprof pstack
Kernel Development (5/5)	Select the box to use Defaults
System Tools (5/30)	Uncheck all, except: Net-snmp-utils Nmap Openldap-clients shapecfg sysstat
Miscellaneous	None selected
Total install size 1	Next
About to install	Next

Notes:

1	Total install size must be 1467 Mb after configuration.

Result: Installation starts and you are prompted to install CD-ROMs periodically until installation is completed. The order of disk is:

Disk 2

Disk 3

Disk 4

Disk 1

When the Graphical Interface (X) Configuration screen displays, check Skip X configuration and click Next.

Result: The Congratulation screen displays.

Remove the CD-ROM and click Exit.

Result: The Lucent CM system reboots.

End of steps

Modify hosts file

By default, during installation of Red Hat, the /etc/hosts file is modified by adding the node host name and the fully qualified host name. Edit the /etc/hosts file to removed the host name and the fully qualified host name.

The exact content of the /etc/hosts file must be:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

Installation logs

When installation is complete, the following installation logs are available:

/root/anaconda-ks.cfg

/root/install.log

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