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I wanted to document the three remote installation methods as they are needed for the Red Hat Certified Engineer examination. The steps to install RHEL 5.0 via FTP, NFS, or HTTP are as follows:

1. Setup a FTP, NFS, or HTTP server.
   • Installing NFS, FTP (vsftpd), and Apache on RHEL 5.0 (CentOS)
   • Installing NFS, FTP (vsftpd), and Apache on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gusty Gibbon)
2. Download the CentOS 5.0 DVD.
3. Mount the ISO:
   noland@mojito:~$ sudo mkdir /mnt/CentOS-5.0-i386
noland@mojito:~$ sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-DVD.iso /mnt/CentOS-5.0-i386/
4. Copy the contents of the ISO to a directory inside the anonymous ftp home, document root, or nfs mount. The examples here for the default directories for Ubuntu 7.10. Please see the RHEL 5.0 setup instructions for RHEL’s default directories. The directory in which you copy the contents of the ISO will be referred to as $CENTOS_INSTALL_ROOT in the install articles.

   Anonymous FTP home:
   noland@mojito:~$ sudo mkdir /home/ftp/centos5.0
noland@mojito:~$ sudo cp -R /mnt/CentOS-5.0-i386/* /home/ftp/centos5.0/

   Document root:
   noland@mojito:~$ sudo mkdir /var/www/centos5.0
noland@mojito:~$ sudo cp -R /mnt/CentOS-5.0-i386/* /var/www/centos5.0/


   Nfs mount:
   noland@mojito:~$ sudo mkdir /var/www/centos5.0
noland@mojito:~$ sudo cp -R /mnt/CentOS-5.0-i386/* /exports/centos5.0/


5. Install:
   • Installing RHEL 5.0 HTTP Install Text Mode
   • Installing RHEL 5.0 FTP Install Text Mode
   • Installing RHEL 5.0 NFS Install Text Mode
   • Installing RHEL 5.0 HTTP Install GUI Mode
   • Installing RHEL 5.0 FTP Install GUI Mode
   • Installing RHEL 5.0 NFS Install GUI Mode