Installing the iscsi initiator on a rhel 5 system, Installing the iscsi initiator on a sles 9 system – Dell PowerVault TL2000 User Manual

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NOTE:

Depending upon your installation method, the system will ask for the required source to install the

package.

Installing the iSCSI Initiator on a RHEL 5 System

You can install the iSCSI initiator software on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 systems either during or

after operating system installation. With this version of the Linux software, you can also elect to install the
iSCSI initiator after the operating system installation via the command line.

Installing the iSCSI initiator during RHEL 5 installation:

1) When the Package Installation Defaults screen is displayed, select the Customize now

option.

2) Click Next to go to the Package Group Selection screen.
3) Select Base System, then select the Base option.
4) Click

Optional

Packages.

5) Select the iscsi-initiator-utils option.
6) Click OK, then Next to continue with the installation.

Installing the iSCSI initiator after RHEL 5 installation:

1) From the desktop, select Applications

Add/Remove Software. The Package Manager screen is

displayed.

2) In the Package Manager screen, select the Search tab.
3) Search

for

iscsi-initiator-utils

.

4) When it is displayed, select the iscsi-initiator-utils option.
5) Click

Apply.

NOTE:

Depending upon your installation method, the system will ask for the required source to install the

package.

NOTE:

This method might not work if network access is not available to a Red Hat Network repository.

Installing the iSCSI initiator after RHEL 5 installation via the command line:

1) Insert the RHEL 5 installation CD 1 or DVD. If your media is not automounted, you must

manual mount it. The iscsi-initiatorutils.rpm file is located in the Server or Client subdirectory.

2) Run the following command:

rpm -i /path/to/media/Server/iscsi-

initiatorutils.rpm

Installing the iSCSI Initiator on a SLES 9 System

You can install the iSCSI initiator software on SUSE

®

Linux Enterprise Servers (SLES) 9 SP3

systems either during or after operating system installation.

Installing the iSCSI initiator during SLES 9 installation:

1) At the YaST Installation Settings screen, click Change.
2) Click Software, then select Detailed Selection to see a complete list of packages.
3) Select Various Linux Tools, then select linux-iscsi.
4) Click Accept. If a dependencies window is displayed, click Continue and proceed with the

installation.

Installing the iSCSI initiator after SLES 9 installation:

1) From the Start menu, select System YaST.
2) Select Software, then Install and Remove Software.
3) In the Search box, enter

linux-iscsi

.

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