What type of installation sources are available for Linux?
What are the
differences?
Give some advantages and disadvantages of each of them.
There are several ways that a Linux distribution can be loaded on a computer
system.
The first way to load the Linux operating system is to use a DVD ISO
image.
This ISO image is placed in the drive of the system that you are trying
to install the operating system on and the BIOS is set to boot to the DVD.
The
only way that this can work is to make sure that the DVD is an actual ISO file
and not the files of the operating system (Red Hat Inc., 2017).
Another way
that the operating system is loaded on the computer system is to use an external
storage device.
In order to do this, you must simply load the ISO file onto an
external hard drive or a thumb drive.
You must also configure the computer
s
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BIOS to look for the master boot record (Red Hat Inc., 2017).
The last way that
a Linux distribution can be installed is through a network connection.
The ISO
