2.5.1. Preparing for FTP and HTTP installation

For FTP and HTTP installation, the iso image or images should be mounted via loopback in the publicly available directory, in the following manner:

For DVD:

mount -o loop /location/of/disk/space/RHEL5.iso /export/directory/

In this case /export/directory will be a directory that is shared via FTP or HTTP.
For CDROMs:

mount -o loop /location/of/disk/space/diskX.iso /export/directory/diskX/

Do the above for each of the CDROM iso images, for example:

mount -o loop /var/isos/disk1.iso /var/www/html/rhel5-install/disk1/

Next make sure that the /export/directory directory is shared via FTP or HTTP, and verify client access. You can check to see whether the directory is accessible from the server itself, and then from another machine on the same subnet that you will be installing to.