What do I need to prepare for a hard drive installation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

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Hard drive installations require a working Linux system installed and the use of ISO (or CD-ROM) images rather than the entire installation tree.

Hard drive installations only work from ext2 or ext3 file systems.

  • Set of CD-ROMs - Create CD-ROM ISO image files from each installation CD-ROMs. For each CD-ROM, execute the following command on a Linux system:

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