RedHat 7.1 1

[peterve]

I've just downloaded the 2 ISO files from RedHat (version 7.1) and burned them on CD

I wanted to install this on one of my desktop PC's but I ran into this problem :

The Bios doesn't support Boot from CDrom so I wanted to create the boot floppy
I made the boot floppy with
d:\dosutils\rawrite -f d:\images\boot.img -d a:

When booting with this disk, SYSLINUX is started and doing some things,
it asks me what to do, so I press enter to install Linux from scratch
then initrd.img is loaded (or something like that),
something else is loaded and then I get an error

What is wrong here ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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Peter Van Eeckhoutte
peter.ve@pandora.be
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[Bluecrack]

The problem depends on the error. Also, are you installing Redhat to a clean hard drive with no partitions or does it have something else already installed?

 

[peterve]

I found it, it was a bad disk...

Anyway, after installing a fairly standard installation, I can't seem to connect to the server by ftp, or by telnet...

The network interface is working properly

How can I enable ftp server and telnet server on the machine ?
How do I configure the daemons, how can I restrict access, ...

Thank you for your time... ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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Peter Van Eeckhoutte
peter.ve@pandora.be
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[johnhoke]

A-Ha!

Redhat (quite rightly) secured/restricted a number of their services by default. You will need to check your firewall settings (gnome-lokkit) and also your /etc/xinetd.d/ files for this.

If you want to run this server as a mail server, there are more issues...
RedHat has a "gotchas" page for 7.1 located at:

http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/7.1/gotchas-71.html

This is a VERY good resource... especially for new installations ... (for your questions see the Firewall section and the Sendmail section <G>)



Now just as a side note:

If you installed wu-ftp, do yourself a favor, go to

http://www.proftpd.net

and download proftpd and uninstall wu-ftp ...
I find it to be more configurable, and secure
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John Hoke