Add module (driver) while installing RHEL 5

It's an interview question for Linux System Administrator,

You want to install RHEL 5 operating system on server machine. Unfortunately RHEL 5 doesn't detect your hard disk. But you need to install it on that hard disk. How will you do ? You have module disk ( Driver CD/DVD) for that hard disk and RHEL 5 DVD.

I felt this is too hard and searched in several places, But actually it's simple thing, ( I didn't try practically because i don't have that much advance or old hard disk). Ok let us see those very simple steps.

Step 1 : Insert the RHEL 5 CD/DVD and boot from CD/DVD. We will get following screen,

Redhat Boot Screen

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Step 2 : There is submenu , Press F2 for show Installer boot options, It's look like as bellow,

Installer Boot Options

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Step 3 : Type "linux dd" and hit enter, you'll get following screen. "linux dd" use to load driver disk,

Driver Disk

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Step 4 : It asks whether you have driver disk or not. Select Yes and hit enter. you'll get following screen.

Insert Driver Disk

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Step 5 : Insert your Driver Disk and hit enter. It'll install needed driver from disk.

Now your Hard Disk is detected by the RHEL 5 CD/DVD. Now we can install OS in this Hard Disk.

* Still I not use this method. Hope this will work. If you face this problem. Try and commant me.

Installing Firefox in Linux ( RHEL 5 )

Hi,
This is a simple method to install firefox in redhat Enterprise Linux 5
It also support all linux operating systems
Step 1 : Download Firefox from here http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html
Step 2 : Extract files on desktop
Step 3 : Copy extracted ( firefox ) folder to /usr/local/share  [ Storing location is your wish ]
Step 4 : That's all. You made it. Now just double click 'firefox' inside firefox folder.
Step 5 : Open with terminal , It ask for default browser. Made it as default and creat a shortcut.

Installing fonts in RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 ( Simple Method )

Simple method

Step 1 : Just copy ".ttf " fonts to /usr/share/fonts/your_folder_name

Step 2 : Open terminal

Step 3 : Run following commend

#fc-cache /usr/share/fonts/your_folder_name

Step 4 : Logout user and login again


Enjoy

It's simple method and working well for me

Installing Open Office org in RHEL5

First want to download Open office ,

And save it in desktop ( for basic user )

Use following comment to extract package ,

tar zxvf OOo_{VERSION}_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz

---- eg. #tar zxvf OOo_3.1.1_LinuxIntel_install_wJRE_en-US.tar.gz

Now want to install rpm, for that first goto rpm folder

cd SOMEDIR/RPMS

---- eg. #cd OOO310_m19_native_packed-1_en-US.9420/RPMS/

After that you install the rpms by doing

#su -

#rpm -ivh *.rpm desktop-integration/*redhat*

have to replace the {VERSION} part with the actual version listed in the file you downloaded. Same thing with SOMEDIR, replace that with the name of the actual directory that gets extracted after running the first command.

RPM FORGE repository for RHEL 5

This is simple method of creating repositories with rpmforge

#wget http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/RPMS.dag/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

-- this step is used to get rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm package.

#rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

-- this step used to install pmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm package

#yum repolist

-- this step update repository list in your machine

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You can find your rpmforge packages here   http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/

Install .rpm in Ubuntu

We can't install .rpm package in ubuntu straightly. So we go to alien

Installing Alien :

You can install alien itself from the Ubuntu Universe repository by adding the repository to your list of sources and doing:

$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get install alien


Installing the .rpm file :

To install the .rpm file, you first need to convert it to a .deb file which can be installed on Ubuntu.

I assume that you downloaded the package to your Desktop (~/Desktop is the directory)

You can convert the .rpm to a .deb by using the following commands.

$cd ~/Desktop

-This will change the directory to your desktop, where you have the .rpm file.

$sudo alien -k name-of-rpm-file.rpm

- This will convert the .rpm to a .deb.

- The “-k” will keep the version number. Otherwise alien adds a “1″ to the version number.

$sudo dpkg -i name-of-deb-file.deb

- This will install the .deb package

* still not tried

* I get it from ubuntu forum

Command line installing tar.bz2 files

1. tar jxvf filename.tar.bz2

2. cd to_some_directory_you_extracted_file

3. ./configure

4. make install


* Still i not tried.

Installing .bin file in RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 ( RHEL 5 )

You should be a root user for Install

1. Open terminal
2. Open folder which contains .bin file
3. Type sh [file_name].bin
4. Depend upon package it ask path, Choose path and press ok
5. Finish