Showing posts with label Installation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Installation. Show all posts

21 February 2008

How to Make USB Pen drive as a bootable device (RedHat)

If you cannot boot from the DVD/CD-ROM drive, but you can boot using a USB device, such as a USB pen drive, the following alternative boot method is available:

To boot using a USB pen drive, use the dd command to copy the diskboot.img image file from the /images/ directory on the DVD or CD-ROM. For example:

dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sda

Note: Your BIOS must support booting from a USB device in order for this boot method to work

20 November 2007

Filesystems that cannot be configured in Linux


The /bin,/dev,/etc,/lib and /sbin directories may not be on separate filesystems they must be a part of / filesystem otherwise system will not boot properly

17 November 2007

Grabbing redhat install screens

During graphical installs you can grab screenshots of any installation screen.To do this,press Shift+Print Screen to save the current screen to hard disk.

You can repeat this as many times as you like.When installations is completed,you can find the screenshot(s) in the /root/anaconda-screenshots directory.

Note:This feature is not supported in text-based installs.

16 November 2007

Virtual consoles available during Redhat installation


Ctrl+alt+F1 : Installer program in text mode
Ctrl+alt+F2 : Shell prompt
Ctrl+alt+F3 : A log of installer messages
Ctrl+alt+F4 : A log of kernel messages
Ctrl+alt+F5 : stdout from mke2fs and grub commands
Ctrl+alt+F7 : Installer program in graphical mode