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1 Quick Start
1.1 The Red Hat Linux Errata
1.2 Getting Red Hat Linux
1.3 Making Floppies
1.4 Installing
1.5 Upgrading from a Prior Version
1.6 Why Can't I Run Directly off the CD?
2 Installing Red Hat Linux/Intel
2.1 The Red Hat Linux Errata
2.2 Before You Begin
2.2.1 Installation Methods
2.2.2 A Note About Kernel Drivers
2.2.3 Disk Partitions
2.2.3.1 Disk Partitions and MS-DOS
2.2.3.2 Disk Partitions and Other Operating Systems
2.2.3.3 How Many Partitions?
2.3 Preparing to Install
2.3.1 Creating the Boot and Supplemental Floppies
2.3.1.1 Making Floppies Under MS-DOS
2.3.1.2 Making Floppies Under Linux
2.3.1.3 Installing Without Using a Boot Floppy
2.3.2 A Note About Virtual Consoles
2.3.3 Using the Dialog Boxes
2.4 Step-By-Step Installation
2.4.1 Starting the Installation System
2.4.1.1 Booting
2.4.1.2 Beginning the Installation
2.4.2 Selecting a Keymap
2.4.3 PCMCIA Support
2.4.4 Selecting an Installation Method
2.4.4.1 CD-ROM Type
2.4.5 If You Are Installing via NFS
2.4.5.1 Choosing a Network Driver
2.4.5.2 Configuring TCP/IP Networking
2.4.5.3 NFS Server Information
2.4.6 Upgrading or Installing
2.4.6.1 Installing
2.4.6.2 Upgrading
2.4.7 SCSI Support
2.4.8 If You Are Installing via FTP or SMB
2.4.8.1 Choosing a Network Driver
2.4.8.2 Configuring TCP/IP Networking
2.4.8.3 FTP Server Information
2.4.8.4 SMB Server Information
2.4.9 Creating Partitions for Red Hat Linux
2.4.9.1 Using fdisk
2.4.9.2 Numbering Partitions
2.4.9.3 Changing the Partition Table
2.4.10 Initializing Swap Space
2.4.11 Filesystem Configuration
2.4.11.1 Selecting the Root Partition
2.4.11.2 Other Partitions
2.4.11.3 Formatting Partitions
2.4.12 Selecting and Installing Packages
2.4.12.1 Selecting System Components
2.4.12.2 Selecting Individual Packages
2.4.12.3 Package Dependencies
2.4.12.4 Package Installation
2.4.13 Configuring a Mouse
2.4.14 Configuring X Windows
2.4.14.1 Configuring the Metro-X Server
2.4.14.2 Configuring an XFree86 Server
2.4.15 Configuring Networking
2.4.15.1 Network Configuration Dialogs
2.4.16 Configuring a Printer
2.4.17 Configuring the Clock
2.4.18 Setting a Root Password
2.4.19 Installing LILO
2.4.19.1 Limitations of LILO
2.4.19.2 Adding Options to the LILO Boot Command Line
2.4.19.3 Alternatives to LILO
2.4.20 Finishing Up ...or Starting Up
3 Installing Red Hat Linux/Alpha
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Supported Hardware
3.3 Installation Overview
3.4 Installing MILO
3.4.1 Making a MILO Floppy
3.4.2 What if MILO doesn't work?
3.5 Making Boot and Ramdisk Floppies
3.5.1 Making a Boot Floppy
3.5.2 Making a Ramdisk Floppy
3.6 Installing
3.6.1 Booting the Kernel Floppy
3.6.2 Starting the Install
3.6.3 Issues Specific to Linux/Alpha
3.6.3.1 Disk Partitioning
3.6.3.2 XFree86 and TGA
3.6.4 Finishing Up
3.7 Booting your Red Hat Linux/Alpha system
4 Installing Red Hat Linux/SPARC
4.1 Hardware
4.2 Booting from Floppy
4.2.1 Making a Boot Floppy
4.2.2 Booting
4.3 Booting from a Network
4.4 Network Installation
4.5 Installation Using a Serial Terminal
4.6 Installation: Selecting System Components
4.7 SILO Configuration
4.8 Partitioning
4.9 X Windows
5 Post Installation Configuration
5.1 Building a Custom Kernel
5.1.1 Building a modularized kernel
5.1.2 Making an initrd image
5.1.3 Building a monolithic kernel
5.2 X Window Configuration with XFree86
5.2.1 The X Server
5.2.2 Xconfigurator
5.2.2.1 Selecting your Server
5.2.2.2 Finishing Up
5.3 X Window Configuration with Metro-X
5.3.1 System Requirements
5.3.2 configX.curses
5.3.2.1 Graphics Card
5.3.2.2 Mouse
5.3.2.3 Exiting
5.3.3 configX
5.3.3.1 Start-up
5.3.3.2 Special Keys
5.3.3.3 Mouse configuration
5.3.3.4 Keyboard configuration
5.3.3.5 Monitor configuration
5.3.3.6 Screen Saver
5.3.3.7 Graphics Card Configuration
5.3.3.8 Colors
5.3.3.9 Virtual Resolution
5.3.3.10 Physical Resolution
5.3.3.11 Multiple-Screen Configuration
5.3.3.12 Adding a Screen
5.3.3.13 Deleting a Screen
5.3.3.14 Screen Layout
5.3.3.15 Font Path
5.3.3.16 Save and Exit
5.3.3.17 Quit Without Saving
5.4 Mouse configuration
5.5 Sendmail
5.6 Controlling Access to Services
5.7 Anonymous FTP
5.8 World Wide Web Server
5.9 NFS Configuration
5.9.1 Mounting NFS Filesystems
5.9.2 Exporting NFS Filesystems
5.10 Running Programs at Boot Time
5.11 Color ls Setup
5.12 NIS/NYS Setup
6 Finding Documentation
6.1 On Line Help
6.1.1 Man Pages
6.1.2 Package Documentation
6.1.3 HOWTOs and FAQs
6.1.4 The ``locate'' Command
6.1.5 ``info'' Pages
6.2 Help from the Internet Community
6.2.1 Red Hat Mailing Lists
6.2.2 USENET Newsgroups
7 Package Management with RPM
7.1 RPM Design Goals
7.2 Using RPM
7.2.1 Installing
7.2.1.1 Package Already Installed
7.2.1.2 Conflicting Files
7.2.1.3 Unresolved Dependency
7.2.2 Uninstalling
7.2.3 Upgrading
7.2.4 Querying
7.2.5 Verifying
7.3 Impressing Your Friends with RPM
7.4 Other RPM Resources
8 Control Panel
8.1 User and Group Configuration
8.1.1 Adding or Editing a User
8.1.2 Removing a User
8.1.2.1 Deactivating a User
8.1.3 Creating a New Group
8.1.4 Editing an Existing Group
8.2 File System Configuration
8.2.1 Adding NFS Mounts
8.3 Printer Configuration
8.4 Network Configuration
8.4.1 Managing Names
8.4.2 Managing Hosts
8.4.3 Adding a Networking Interface
8.4.3.1 PPP Interface
8.4.3.2 SLIP Interface
8.4.3.3 PLIP Interface
8.4.3.4 Ethernet, Arcnet, Token Ring and Pocket Adaptor Interfaces
8.4.4 Managing Routes
8.5 Time and Date
8.6 Kernel Daemon Configuration
8.6.1 Changing Module Options
8.6.2 Changing Modules
8.6.3 Adding Modules
8.6.4 Restarting Kerneld
9 Glint
9.1 Starting glint
9.2 The Package Display
9.2.1 Context Sensitive Menus
9.2.2 Selecting Packages
9.2.3 Viewing Available Packages
9.3 Configuration
9.4 Package Manipulation
9.4.1 Querying Packages
9.4.2 Verifying Packages
9.4.3 Installing New Packages
9.4.3.1 Upgrading Packages
9.4.4 Uninstalling Packages
10 System Administration
10.1 Filesystem Structure
10.1.1 Overview of the FSSTND
10.1.1.1 The /etc Directory
10.1.1.2 The /lib Directory
10.1.1.3 The /sbin Directory
10.1.1.4 The /usr Directory
10.1.1.5 The /usr/local Directory
10.1.1.6 The /var directory
10.1.2 /usr/local in Red Hat Linux
10.2 Special Red Hat File Locations
10.3 Users, Groups and User-Private Groups
10.3.1 Standard Users
10.3.2 Standard Groups
10.3.3 User Private Groups
10.3.3.1 User Private Group Rationale
10.4 User Authentication with PAM
10.4.1 Modules
10.4.2 Services
10.4.3 The Configuration Files
10.4.4 Shadow Passwords
10.4.5 More Information
10.5 The Boot Process, Init, and Shutdown
10.5.1 System V Init
10.5.2 Init Runlevels
10.5.3 Shutting Down
10.6 Rescue Modes
10.6.1 Through LILO
10.6.2 Emergency Boot Floppies
A Module parameters
A.1 CD-ROM parameters
A.2 SCSI parameters
A.3 Ethernet parameters
B Metro X
B.1 Special Features
B.1.1 Hot-Key Exit
B.1.2 Hot-Key Resolution Switching
B.1.3 Hardware Panning
B.1.4 Multiple Screens
B.1.4.1 Supported Cards
B.1.5 International Keyboards
B.2 Metro X Configuration File
B.2.1 Warning
B.2.2 Xconfig
B.2.3 Keywords
B.2.3.1 Options Set In Configuration Utility
B.2.3.2 Options Not Set in Configuration Utility
B.2.4 Modes
B.2.4.1 Adjusting the Image Position
B.2.4.2 Extensions
B.2.4.3 Special Notes
C Intro to Alpha Systems and Processors
C.1 What is Alpha
C.2 What is Digital Semiconductor
C.3 Alpha CPUs
C.4 21064 performance vs 21066 performance
C.5 A Few Notes On Clocking
C.6 The chip-sets
C.7 The Systems
C.8 Bytes and all that stuff
C.9 PALcode and all that stuff
C.10 Porting
C.11 More Information
C.12 References
D Alpha Miniloader Howto
D.1 Introduction
D.1.1 Copyright
D.1.2 New Versions of this Document
D.2 What is MILO?
D.3 Pre-Built Standard MILO Images.
D.4 How To Build MILO
D.5 How To Load MILO
D.5.1 Loading MILO from the Windows NT ARC firmware
D.5.2 Loading MILO from the Windows NT AlphaBIOS
D.5.3 Loading MILO from the Evaluation Board Debug Monitor
D.5.4 Loading MILO from a Failsafe Boot Block Floppy
D.5.5 Loading MILO from Flash
D.5.6 Loading MILO from the SRM Console
D.5.7 System Specific Information
D.5.7.1 AxpPCI33 (Noname)
D.5.7.2 AlphaPC64 (Cabriolet)
D.5.7.3 EB66+
D.5.7.4 EB64+/Aspen Alpine
D.5.7.5 Universal Desktop Box (Multia)
D.5.7.6 EB164
D.5.7.7 PC164
D.5.7.8 XL266
D.5.7.9 Platform2000
D.6 MILO's User Interface
D.6.1 The ''help'' Command
D.6.2 Booting Linux
D.6.3 Rebooting Linux
D.6.4 The ''bootopt'' command
D.7 Running the Flash Management Utility
D.7.1 The ''help'' command
D.7.2 The ''list'' command
D.7.3 The ''program'' command
D.7.4 The ''environment'' command
D.7.5 The ''bootopt'' command
D.7.6 The ''quit'' command
D.8 Restrictions.
D.9 Problem Solving.
D.10 Acknowledgements.
E Red Hat Linux Frequently Asked Questions
E.1 Introduction
E.2 General Questions
E.2.1 Where can I get information on Red Hat Linux?
E.2.2 How Can I Get Red Hat Linux?
E.2.3 The Red Hat FTP site is slow. Are there mirrors?
E.2.4 How do I order from the Red Hat Software?
E.2.5 How do I contact Red Hat Software?
E.2.6 How do I get new updates to Red Hat as they happen?
E.2.7 What do I do if I have media (manual or CD) problems?
E.2.8 What's the quickest and best way to get support for Red Hat?
E.2.9 How do I report a bug?
E.2.10 What versions of Red Hat Linux are there?
E.2.11 What hardware does Red Hat Linux support?
E.2.12 Why won't my Adaptec (274x, 284x) work?
E.2.13 What applications are there for Red Hat Linux?
E.2.14 Does Red Hat Linux include source code?
E.2.15 What version of X Windows is included with Red Hat Linux?
E.2.16 Does Red Hat Linux support UMSDOS installs?
E.3 Installation Questions
E.3.1 How do I get my IDE CD-ROM on my SB16 to work?
E.3.2 How do I run the install program again?
E.3.3 Why am I missing some programs?
E.3.4 How do I mount my CD-ROM?
E.3.5 Why does Linux only see part of my RAM?
E.3.6 How do I install to my DOS partition?
E.3.7 How do I use the NYS/NIS system that comes with RedHat?
E.3.8 Why can't I get to Unixware now that I've installed Linux?
E.3.9 Why does my Diamond video card do odd things under X Windows?
E.3.10 Where can I find an list of known problems?
E.3.11 I installed Metro-X, now how do I use it?
E.4 Using Red Hat Linux
E.4.1 Why doesn't the xmh shipped with Red Hat work properly?
F Red Hat and Freely Distributable Software.
F.0.1 Red Hat History
F.1 The Free Software Model
F.2 The Evolution of ``Free Software''
F.3 The GNU Public License
F.4 Will Linux Replace Commercial OSes?
F.5 Red Hat Software, Inc.'s Role in Linux Development
F.6 Further Reading
G Licenses
G.1 The BSD Copyright
G.2 X Copyright
G.3 Gnu Public License
G.3.1 Preamble
G.3.2 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
G.3.2.1 0
G.3.2.2 1
G.3.2.3 2
G.3.2.4 3
G.3.2.5 4
G.3.2.6 5
G.3.2.7 6
G.3.2.8 7
G.3.2.9 8
G.3.2.10 9
G.3.2.11 10
G.3.2.12 11
G.3.3 Appendix

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