Red Hat Linux 7.2
The Official Red Hat Linux x86 Installation Guide
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- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Steps to Get You Started
- 2. Installation Options and System Requirements Tables
- 3. Installing Red Hat Linux
- The Installation Program User Interface
- Starting the Installation Program
- Selecting an Installation Method
- Beginning the Installation
- Language Selection
- Keyboard Configuration
- Mouse Configuration
- Welcome to Red Hat Linux
- Install Options
- Disk Partitioning Setup
- Automatic Partitioning
- Partitioning Your System
- Partitioning with fdisk
- Boot Loader Installation
- GRUB Password
- Network Configuration
- Firewall Configuration
- Language Support Selection
- Time Zone Configuration
- Account Configuration
- Authentication Configuration
- Package Group Selection
- X Configuration
- Preparing to Install
- Installing Packages
- Boot Disk Creation
- X Configuration
- Installation Complete
- 4. Installing Red Hat Linux via Text Mode
- A. Upgrading Your Current System
- B. Removing Red Hat Linux
- C. Getting Technical Support
- D. Troubleshooting Your Installation of Red Hat Linux
- E. An Introduction to Disk Partitions
- Hard Disk Basic Concepts
- It is Not What You Write, it is How You Write It
- Partitions: Turning One Drive Into Many
- Partitions within Partitions -- An Overview of Extended Partitions
- Making Room For Red Hat Linux
- Partition Naming Scheme
- Disk Partitions and Other Operating Systems
- Disk Partitions and Mount Points
- How Many Partitions?
- One Last Wrinkle: Using GRUB or LILO
- F. Driver Disks
- G. Configuring a Dual-Boot System
- Index