Installating Red Hat9 on ML350

[Gwendeline]

How to install Red Hat 9 on ML350? it seem that the new version of the s,art start does not support linux. When I boot up from the Installtion Cd , It seem that it cannot detect the installation disk in the CDROm drive

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

1.maybe your installation disk is corrupted or maybe it's time to replace the cdrom
2. If you can boot from floppy-then copy all installation cdroms to a directory on another linux machine and share it via NFS. You have the option to install via NFS.

[Huc_1]

Yes, use boot floopy, NFS, or copy the iso to a local disk, mount the iso with -o loop to mount point, boot from your cd and when it ask how you want to install answer from disk and give loop mount point.

Hope this help

J-P

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

this threadd http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=209171

may help you


Rgds,
Vitaly

[Steven E. Protter]

If you have a standard network card on the box, you can go to redhats website, creat a network boot disk, and do the entire installation off a public ftp server.

I've done it a few times, the hard part if figureing out which subdirectory of the ftp server to use.

The rest of the installation, text based is just like any other installation.

SEP

[Gwendeline]

There was problem with the boot disk, Re-created a new one It work But know don't know which display should i select during the installation

[Huc_1]

Moke,

Could you be more descriptif of where you are in the installation, what display are you talking about ? video, monitor, installation ?

any precice information helps us help you !


J-P (read you answer mail, pls dont forget to assign points, tks)

[Gwendeline]

How to install and configure 20/40 dlt tape drive , What kind of backup solution should I used and how to configure it ?


Sorry guy, this is my first linux server installation ..Thanks for helping.

[Huc_1]

first login as root check you scsi, with
#cat /proc/scsi/scsi

If you see your tape drive in there you are in luck
if positif
# st -f /dev/st0 status (replace st0 with what you have got as tape from /proc/scsi/scsi)

if this return status then you could use

tar command to backup to tape like ex:

# tar -cvf test.tar /tmp

this will create a tar (test.tar) backup of what is in directory /tmp

to see what in your tar file ex:

# tar -tvf test.tar

read man page for details.

also other backup tools are pax, dump.

there are some more tool to do this but first tell us if you see tape


J-P

[Huc_1]

sorry typing to fast for my own good

make that

#tar cvf /dev/st0 /tmp

to write to tape

#st -f /dev/st0 rewind

to rewind tape

and

#tar -tvf /dev/st0

to test what on tape


the command in previous are for tar use to backup to directory.


J-P