Introduction
Welcome to the Official Red Hat Linux Customization Guide.
The Official Red Hat Linux Customization Guide contains information on how to customize your Red Hat Linux system to fit your needs. If you are looking for a step-by-step, task-oriented guide for configuring and customizing your system, this is the manual for you. This manual discusses many intermediate topics such as the following:
Setting up a network interface card (NIC)
Performing a Kickstart installation
Configuring Samba shares
Managing your software with RPM
Determining information about your system
Upgrading your kernel
This manual is divided into the following main categories:
Installation-Related Reference
Network-Related Reference
System Configuration
Package Management
This guide assumes you have a basic understanding of your Red Hat Linux system. If you need reference material which covers more basic issues such as configuring your desktop or playing audio CD-ROMs, please refer to the Official Red Hat Linux Getting Started Guide. If you need more advanced documentation such as an overview of the Red Hat Linux filesystem, please refer to the Official Red Hat Linux Reference Guide.
HTML and PDF versions of the Official Red Hat Linux manuals are available on the Documentation CD and online at http://www.redhat.com/docs/.
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Although this manual reflects the most current information possible, you should read the Red Hat Linux Release Notes for information that may not have been available prior to our documentation being finalized. They can be found on the Red Hat Linux CD #1 and online at:
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Changes to This Manual
This manual has been expanded to include new features in Red Hat Linux 8.0 as well as topics requested by our readers. Significant changes to this manual include:
- File Systems
New to this version is a file systems part. It discusses ext3, swap space, RAID, LVM, and managing disk storage with parted.
- Kickstart
The kickstart options have been updated to include the new options in Red Hat Linux 8.0, and the Kickstart Configurator chapter has been updated to include many new features.
- LVM Configuration
This new chapter discusses how to configure LVM during installation.
- Network Configuration
The network configuration chapter now includes information on network profiles and network aliases.
- Basic Firewall Configuration
This chapter includes the new Security Level Configuration Tool.
- Network File System (NFS)
This chapter now includes how to export directories using the NFS Server Configuration Tool.
- Apache HTTP Server
Both Apache HTTP Server chapters have been updated for version 2.0.
- Console Access
How to use the pam_timestamp module has been added.
- Log Files
This new chapter contains information on how to examine log files with the Log Viewer.
- Package Management Tool
The Gnome-RPM application has been replaced with Package Management Tool, which this new chapter discusses.