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You've checked your hardware, you know it can handle Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. As suggested in the exam prep guide you'll have access to the first installation CD and can use it to install this operating system over a network. So first you'll want to set up your system to boot from the CD and then you can configure network installation. There are two basic way to change the boot order. Most PC's give you access to the bios menu and bios menus have a boot order submenu somewhere, it varies by computer, some PCs allow it direct access to the boot menu. The actual command depends on the PC. Let me show you how this works on my VMware system. I boot the computer, I press the right key during the boot process and I get the bios menu and the boot order submenu. I can set things up so the CD ROM boots first, but lets not do that quite yet. I exit the bios menu and press the key to access the boot menu directly or I can boot directly from the CD ROM drive. I've already put the first installation CD into the drive so when I press the button I get the installation boot screen. There are lots of options but two of them are most important for installing over a network. If you want to install using GUI screens type Linux ask method at the boot prompt. I prefer installing in text mode because it's a bit faster. To do so type text ask method that avoids the first boot process at least during the installation process and it gives you a default run level of three. You may want to change that to five and in other videos I've shown you how to do that through the EDC slash knit tab configuration file. Now let's start the installation process. Installation starts by loading a basic kernel, checking your hardware, and a bit more. Now we'll go though the first steps of the installation process. We'll select a language, choose a keyboard and select a network installation. They're possible using NFS, HTTP or FTP. Make sure your installation server is active. Service HTTPD start is a basic command which makes sure the Apache web server is running. If your using NFS and have started the NFS server the show mount dash e host name command makes sure the shares that you want are accessible. Now let's go through the first steps, I want to choose the English language. If I want to select a different language I can use the arrow keys. I select English, I press the tab key to switch between selection and OK and use the spacebar to accept ok. I have a US keyboard, instead of pressing tab and OK I can just press F12 which does both automatically. Next I select an installation method, as network installations are expected and NFS is most common on Linux we'll continue with installation an NFS image. Since this is a Network installation we need to configure TCPIP. It would be simplest if we could use DHCP but life may not be so simple on your exam. But I deselect IP version 6 as there's no such requirement in the exam prep guide. I click OK and now I can set up a manual IP configuration. I enter setting appropriate to my own personal network but on your exam follow any instructions you get from your proctor. As of disc writing you'll need a gateway address. The name server address isn't required unless you want access outside your network or don't have the IP address of the NFS server, I click OK and now I can enter the connection information to the NFS server. If you choose an HTTP or an FTP connection the screens are similar. I entered the IP address of the server and the directory where the installation files are held, I click OK and I can proceed with the rest of the installation program. Thank you and on to the next video.