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- Page 1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Installation Guide for x86, Itanium™, AMD64, and Intel® Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel® EM64T)
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents Introduction............................i 1. Document Conventions......................i 2. How to Use This Manual .....................iii 2.1. We Need Feedback! ....................iv 3. Accessibility Solutions ......................iv 1. Itanium System Specific Information.................... 1 1.1. Itanium System Installation Overview................1 1.2. Itanium Systems — The EFI Shell ..................1 1.2.1. - Page 4 4.17.5. Adding Partitions .................... 35 4.17.6. Editing Partitions .................... 37 4.17.7. Deleting a Partition ..................37 4.18. x86, AMD64, and Intel® EM64T Boot Loader Configuration ........37 4.18.1. Advanced Boot Loader Configuration ............39 4.18.2. Rescue Mode....................40 4.18.3. Alternative Boot Loaders ................41 4.18.4.
- Page 5 C.4.1. Trouble With the Graphical GRUB Screen on an x86-based System? .... 74 C.4.2. Trouble With the Graphical LILO Screen on an x86-based System? ....74 C.4.3. Booting into a Graphical Environment ............75 C.4.4. Problems with the X Window System (GUI)........... 76 C.4.5.
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Page 7: Introduction
Introduction Welcome to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation Guide. This guide contains useful information to assist you during the installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. From fundamental concepts such as installation preparation to the step-by-step installation procedure, this book will be a valuable resource as you install Red Hat Enterprise Linux. - Page 8 Introduction text found on a GUI interface A title, word, or phrase found on a GUI interface screen or window is shown in this style. Text shown in this style is being used to identify a particular GUI screen or an element on a GUI screen (such as text associated with a checkbox or field).
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Page 9: How To Use This Manual
Introduction The directory for the kernel source is , where /usr/src/ version-number ¢ £ is the version of the kernel installed on this system. version-number ¤ ¥ Additionally, we use several different strategies to draw your attention to certain pieces of informa- tion. -
Page 10: We Need Feedback
If you discover a typo in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation Guide or have thought of a way to make this manual better, we would love to hear from you. Submit a bug report against the component rhel-ig-x8664-multi in Bugzilla at: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/ When submitting a bug report, be sure to mention the manual’s identifier: rhel-ig-x8664-multi(EN)-3-Print-RHI (2003-07-25T17:10) If you have a suggestion for improving the documentation, try to be as specific as possible when de-... - Page 11 • http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html • file provides more information instructions • README-Accessibility using some of the tools available for users with special needs. This file can be found in , where X is the release number of your installed /usr/share/doc/redhat-release-X/ product.
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Page 13: Itanium System Specific Information
Chapter 1. Itanium System Specific Information 1.1. Itanium System Installation Overview Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux on an Itanium system is different from installing Red Hat Enter- prise Linux on an x86-based system. In general, the sequence of steps to a successful installation are the following: 1. -
Page 14: Itanium Systems - Efi System Partition
Chapter 1. Itanium System Specific Information The output is listed in the order the system was probed. So, all FAT16 filesystems are listed first, then IDE hard drives, then SCSI hard drives, then IDE CD-ROM drives, and finally SCSI CD-ROM drives. For example, output of the command might look like the following: Device mapping table... -
Page 15: Steps To Get You Started
Linux Release Notes for information that may not have been available prior to this documentation being finalized. The Release Notes can be found on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD #1 and online http://www.redhat.com/docs/ 2.1. Where to Find Other Manuals If your particular product did not include all of the printed Red Hat Enterprise Linux manuals, you can find them online or on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Documentation CD included with your Red... -
Page 16: Do You Have Enough Disk Space
Chapter 2. Steps to Get You Started The most recent list of supported hardware can be found at: http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/ 2.4. Do You Have Enough Disk Space? Nearly every modern-day operating system (OS) uses disk partitions, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux is no exception. - Page 17 Chapter 2. Steps to Get You Started If you choose to create a boot CD-ROM, it is not necessary to create a driver diskette. If you cannot boot from the CD-ROM drive, the following alternative boot method is available: Boot Diskette If you need a boot diskette , you must create it.
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Page 18: Making An Installation Boot Cd-Rom
Chapter 2. Steps to Get You Started The PCMCIA device driver diskette image file, , is located in the pcmciadd.img images/ directory on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD #1. Refer to Section 2.5.3 Making an In- stallation Boot Diskette or Appendix E Driver Media, for more information on making a diskette. - Page 19 You may need to create a diskette from an image file; for example, you may need to use updated diskette images obtained from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux errata page: http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/ An image file contains an exact copy (or image) of a diskette’s contents. Since a diskette contains file system information in addition to the data contained in files, the contents of the image file are not...
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Page 20: Preparing For A Network Installation
CD-ROMs to a Linux machine which acts as an RedHat/ installation staging server, perform the following steps: For each binary CD-ROM, execute the following commands: • mount /mnt/cdrom • cp -var /mnt/cdrom/RedHat /location/of/disk/space • where is a directory you create such as /location/of/disk/space/ /export/redhat/ umount /mnt/cdrom/ •... -
Page 21: Using Iso Images For Nfs Installs
Linux. The Release Notes are formatted in HTML files located at the root of the disc. Copy the files to your installation directory. For example: cp /mnt/cdrom/RELEASE-NOTES*.html /location/of/disk/space/ The Release Notes are also available online from http://www.redhat.com/docs/. Next, make accessible to the installation program via NFS, FTP, •... -
Page 22: Preparing For A Hard Drive Installation
Chapter 2. Steps to Get You Started RPM package for detailed information on the various ways to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as well as how to apply the installation program updates. Note You can only have the ISO images for one release and one variant of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the directory. -
Page 23: System Requirements Table
Chapter 3. System Requirements Table The most recent list of supported hardware can be found at http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/. This system requirements table will help you keep a record of your current system settings and re- quirements. Enter information about your system in the table provided as a handy reference to help make your Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation go more smoothly. - Page 24 Chapter 3. System Requirements Table sound card: make, chipset and model number; ex: S3 SonicVibes, Sound Blaster 32/64 AWE IP, DHCP, and BOOTP addresses: four numbers, separated by dots; ex: 10.0.2.15 netmask: four numbers, separated by dots; ex: 255.255.248.0 gateway IP address: four numbers, separated by dots;...
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Page 25: Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux This chapter explains how to perform a Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation from the CD-ROM, using the graphical, mouse-based installation program. The following topics are discussed: Becoming familiar with the installation program’s user interface •... -
Page 26: A Note About Virtual Consoles
Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.1.1. A Note about Virtual Consoles The Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation program offers more than the dialog boxes of the installa- tion process. Several different kinds of diagnostic messages are available to you, in addition to provid- ing a way to enter commands from a shell prompt. - Page 27 Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Figure 4-1. Installation Program Widgets as seen in Boot Loader Configuration Figure 4-2. Installation Program Widgets as seen in Disk Druid Here is a list of the most important widgets shown in Figure 4-1 and Figure 4-2: Window —...
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Page 28: Using The Keyboard To Navigate
Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux than can be displayed in the space reserved for it, a scroll bar appears; if you position the cursor within the text widget, you can then use the [Up] and [Down] arrow keys to scroll through all the information available. -
Page 29: Booting The Installation Program On X86, Amd64, And Intel® Em64T Systems
Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.3.1. Booting the Installation Program on x86, AMD64, and Intel® EM64T Systems You can boot the installation program using any one of the following media (depending upon what your system can support): Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD-ROM — Your machine supports a bootable CD-ROM drive and you •... -
Page 30: Booting The Installation Program On Itanium Systems
Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.3.2. Booting the Installation Program on Itanium Systems Your Itanium system may be able to boot the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation program directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD #1. If your Itanium cannot boot the installation program from the CD-ROM (or if you want to perform a hard drive, NFS, FTP, or HTTP installation) you must boot from a diskette. - Page 31 Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.3.3. Additional Boot Options While it is easiest to boot using a CD-ROM and perform a graphical installation, sometimes there are installation scenarios where booting in a different manner may be needed. This section discusses additional boot options available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Page 32: Selecting An Installation Method
Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.3.3.1. Kernel Options Options can also be passed to the kernel. For example, to instruct the kernel to use all the RAM in a system with 128 MB of RAM, at the installation boot prompt, enter: linux mem=128M For text mode installations, use: linux text mem=128M... -
Page 33: Installing From Cd-Rom
Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux If you are installing from an NFS server using ISO images or a mirror image of Red Hat En- terprise Linux, you can use this method. You need a boot diskette or a boot CD-ROM (use the boot option). -
Page 34: What If The Ide Cd-Rom Was Not Found
Additionally, if a file called exists in the directory from which you RedHat/base/updates.img install, it is used for installation program updates. Refer to the file in the install-methods.txt RPM package for detailed information on the various ways to install Red Hat Enterprise anaconda Linux, as well as how to apply the installation program updates. -
Page 35: Performing A Network Installation
Preparing for a Network Installation, you would enter the directory /location/of/disk/space/ which contains the directory. RedHat/ If the NFS server is exporting a mirror of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation tree, enter the directory which contains the directory. (If you do not know this directory RedHat/ path, ask your system administrator.) For example, if the NFS site contains the directory... -
Page 36: Installing Via Ftp
Enter the name or IP address of the FTP site you are installing from, and the name of the directory containing the installation files for your architecture. For example, if the FTP site contains RedHat/ the directory , enter (where arch... -
Page 37: Installing Via Http
Enter the name or IP address of the HTTP site you are installing from, and the name of the directory containing the installation files for your architecture. For example, if the HTTP site contains RedHat/ the directory , enter (where arch... -
Page 38: Language Selection
Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.11. Welcome to Red Hat Enterprise Linux The Welcome screen does not prompt you for any input. Read over the help text in the left panel for additional instructions and information on where to register your Red Hat Enterprise Linux product. Notice the Hide Help button at the bottom left corner of the screen. -
Page 39: Mouse Configuration
Configuration Tool. Type the command in a shell prompt to launch the Keyboard Configura- redhat-config-keyboard tion Tool. If you are not root, it prompts you for the root password to continue. 4.14. Mouse Configuration Choose the correct mouse type for your system. If you cannot find an exact match, choose a mouse type that you are sure is compatible with your system (refer to Figure 4-9). -
Page 40: Disk Partitioning Setup
Type the command in a shell prompt to launch the Mouse Configuration redhat-config-mouse Tool. If you are not root, it prompts you for the root password to continue. To configure your mouse to work as a left-handed mouse, reset the order of the mouse buttons. To do this, after you have booted the system, go to the Main Menu Button (on the Panel) =>... -
Page 41: Automatic Partitioning
Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automatic partitioning allows you to perform an installation without having to partition your drive(s) yourself. If you do not feel comfortable with partitioning your system, it is recommended that you do not choose to partition manually and instead let the installation program partition for you. To partition manually, choose the Disk Druid partitioning tool. - Page 42 Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.16. Automatic Partitioning Automatic partitioning allows you to have some control concerning what data is removed (if any) from your system. Your options are: Remove all Linux partitions on this system — select this option to remove only Linux partitions •...
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Page 43: Partitioning Your System
Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Caution If you have a RAID card, be aware that some BIOSes do not support booting from the RAID card. In cases such as these, the partition must be created on a partition outside of the RAID array, /boot/ such as on a separate hard drive. -
Page 44: Graphical Display Of Hard Drive(S)
Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Figure 4-12. Partitioning with Disk Druid on x86, AMD64, and Intel® EM64T Systems Figure 4-13. Partitioning with Disk Druid on Itanium Systems The partitioning tool used by the installation program is Disk Druid. With the exception of certain esoteric situations, Disk Druid can handle the partitioning requirements for a typical installation. -
Page 45: Disk Druid's Buttons
Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux sectors as reported by the hard disk), and the Model of the hard drive as detected by the installation program. 4.17.2. Disk Druid’s Buttons These buttons control Disk Druid’s actions. They are used to change the attributes of a partition (for example the file system type and mount point) and also to create RAID devices. -
Page 46: Recommended Partitioning Scheme
Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux mounted. If a partition exists, but is not set, then you need to define its mount point. Double-click on the partition or click the Edit button. Type: This field shows the partition’s type (for example, ext2, ext3, or vfat). •... -
Page 47: Adding Partitions
Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux swap is recommended. Creating a large swap space partition can be especially helpful if you plan to upgrade your RAM at a later time. If your partitioning scheme requires a swap partition that is larger than 2 GB, you should create an additional swap partition. - Page 48 Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Figure 4-14. Creating a New Partition Mount Point: Enter the partition’s mount point. For example, if this partition should be the root • partition, enter /; enter /boot for the /boot partition, and so on. You can also use the pull-down menu to choose the correct mount point for your partition.
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Page 49: Editing Partitions
Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as there is no need to the file system. The ext3 file system is selected by default and is highly fsck recommended. physical volume (LVM) — Creating one or more physical volume (LVM) partitions allows you •... - Page 50 Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader), which is installed by default, is a very powerful boot loader. GRUB can load a variety of free operating systems, as well as proprietary operating systems with chain-loading (the mechanism for loading unsupported operating systems, such as DOS or Windows, by loading another boot loader).
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Page 51: Advanced Boot Loader Configuration
Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux GRUB) or (for LILO). Other partitions may also have boot labels. To add or change the boot la- linux bel for other partitions that have been detected by the installation program, click once on the partition to select it. - Page 52 Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Figure 4-16. Boot Loader Installation Caution If you have a RAID card, be aware that some BIOSes do not support booting from the RAID card. In cases such as these, the boot loader should not be installed on the MBR of the RAID array. Rather, the boot loader should be installed on the MBR of the same drive as the partition was created.
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Page 53: Rescue Mode
Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.18.2. Rescue Mode Rescue mode provides the ability to boot a small Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment entirely from a diskette, CD-ROM, or some other boot method instead of the system’s hard drive. There may be times when you are unable to get Red Hat Enterprise Linux running completely enough to access files on your system’s hard drive. -
Page 54: Smp Motherboards, Grub, And Lilo
Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.18.4. SMP Motherboards, GRUB, and LILO This section is specific to SMP motherboards only. SMP, short for Symmetric Multiprocessing, is a computer architecture providing fast performance by making multiple CPUs available to complete individual processes simultaneously (multiprocessing). - Page 55 To change your network configuration after you have completed the installation, use the Network Administration Tool. Type the command in a shell prompt to launch the Network Administra- redhat-config-network tion Tool. If you are not root, it prompts you for the root password to continue.
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Page 56: Firewall Configuration
Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.20. Firewall Configuration Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers firewall protection for enhanced system security. A firewall exists between your computer and the network, and determines which resources on your computer remote users on the network can access. A properly configured firewall can greatly increase the security of your system. - Page 57 To change your security level configuration after you have completed the installation, use the Security Level Configuration Tool. Type the command in a shell prompt to launch the Security Level redhat-config-securitylevel Configuration Tool. If you are not root, it prompts you for the root password to continue.
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Page 58: Language Support Selection
To change the language configuration after you have completed the installation, use the Language Configuration Tool. Type the command in a shell prompt to launch the Language Configu- redhat-config-language ration Tool. If you are not root, it prompts you for the root password to continue. -
Page 59: Time Zone Configuration
Type the command in a shell prompt to launch the Time and Date Properties redhat-config-date Tool. If you are not root, it prompts you for the root password to continue. To run the Time and Date Properties Tool as a text-based application, use the command timeconfig 4.23. - Page 60 Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Note The root user (also known as the superuser) has complete access to the entire system; for this rea- son, logging in as the root user is best done only to perform system maintenance or administration. Figure 4-22.
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Page 61: Package Group Selection
Tool. Type the command in a shell prompt to launch the Root Password redhat-config-rootpassword Tool. If you are not root, it prompts you for the root password to continue. 4.24. Package Group Selection After your partitions have been selected and configured for formatting, you are ready to select pack- ages for installation. - Page 62 Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux You can select package groups, which group components together according to function (for example, X Window System and Editors), individual packages, or a combination of the two. Note Users of AMD64, Intel® EM64T, and Itanium systems who want support for developing or running 32-bit applications are encouraged to select the Compatibility Arch Support and Compatibility Arch Development Support packages to install architecure specific support for their systems.
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Page 63: Preparing To Install
Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Figure 4-25. Package Group Details 4.25. Preparing to Install A screen preparing you for the installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux now appears. For your reference, a complete log of your installation can be found in once /root/install.log you reboot your system. -
Page 64: Configuration - Monitor And Customization
Tool. Type the command in a shell prompt to launch the X Configuration Tool. redhat-config-xfree86 If you are not root, it prompts you for the root password to continue. 4.28. X Configuration — Monitor and Customization To complete X configuration, you must configure your monitor and customize your X settings. -
Page 65: Custom Configuration
Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux If your monitor does not appear on the list, select the most appropriate Generic CRT or Generic LCD model available. If you select a Generic CRT or Generic LCD monitor, the installation program suggests horizontal and vertical sync ranges. -
Page 66: Installation Complete
Tool. Type the command in a shell prompt to launch the X Configuration Tool. redhat-config-xfree86 If you are not root, it prompts you for the root password to continue. 4.29. Installation Complete Congratulations! Your Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 installation is now complete! The installation program prompts you to prepare your system for reboot. -
Page 67: Itanium Systems - Booting Your Machine And Post-Installation Setup
Red Hat Enterprise Linux product. HTML, PDF, and RPM versions of the manuals are available on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Docu- mentation CD and online at http://www.redhat.com/docs/. Note Although this manual reflects the most current information possible, read the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Release Notes for information that may not have been available prior to our documenta- tion being finalized. -
Page 68: Post-Installation Boot Loader Options
Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux elilo linux If you do not know the names of the installed kernels, you can view the /boot/efi/elilo.conf file in EFI with the following instructions: 1. At the prompt, change devices to the system partition (mounted as Shell /boot/efi Linux). - Page 69 Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux move items down the list by selecting it and pressing the [d] key. After changing the boot order, choose Save changes to NVRAM. Choose Exit to return to the Main Menu. 9. Optionally, you can change to boot timeout value by choosing Set Auto Boot TimeOut => Set Timeout Value from the Main Menu.
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Page 71: Upgrading Your Current System
Appendix A. Upgrading Your Current System This appendix walks you through a typical Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 upgrade. Note If you currently use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 on an x86 system, you can perform an upgrade. Although upgrades are supported by the Red Hat Enterprise Linux family on x86 processors, you are likely to have a more consistent experience by backing up your data and then installing this release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux over your previous Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation. -
Page 72: Upgrade Boot Loader Configuration
Note If the contents of your file have been changed from the default, your Red Hat /etc/redhat-release Enterprise Linux installation may not be found when attempting an upgrade to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. You can relax some of the checks against this file by booting with the following boot command:... -
Page 73: Creating A New Boot Loader Configuration
Appendix A. Upgrading Your Current System Figure A-2. Upgrade Boot Loader Configuration On the Boot Loader Configuration Screen, your options are: Update boot loader configuration — Choose this option to keep your current boot loader configura- tion (GRUB or LILO depending on what you have currently installed) and have updates applied. Skip boot loader updating —... - Page 74 Appendix A. Upgrading Your Current System Caution If you choose not to install GRUB or LILO for any reason, you will not be able to boot the system directly, and you must use another boot method (such as a boot diskette). Use this option only if you are sure you have another way of booting the system! Figure A-3.
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Page 75: Advanced Boot Loader Configuration
Appendix A. Upgrading Your Current System If you are installing a boot loader, you should create a password to protect your system. Without a boot loader password, users with access to your system can pass options to the kernel which can compromise your system security. -
Page 76: Rescue Mode
Appendix A. Upgrading Your Current System Figure A-4. Boot Loader Installation If your system will use only Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you should choose the MBR. Click the Change Drive Order button if you would like to rearrange the drive order or if your BIOS does not return the correct drive order. -
Page 77: Alternative Boot Loaders
Appendix A. Upgrading Your Current System image or that the rescue image be on the hard drive as an ISO image. Once you have booted using this diskette, type linux rescue at the prompt. boot: If you are performing anything other than a IDE CD-ROM or hard disk installation and are using a boot diskette, you must have at least one driver diskette that you must make in advance. -
Page 78: Upgrading Packages
Red Hat Enterprise Linux product. HTML, PDF, and RPM versions of the manuals are available on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Docu- mentation CD and online at http://www.redhat.com/docs/. Note Although this manual reflects the most current information possible, read the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Release Notes for information that may not have been available prior to our documenta- tion being finalized. - Page 79 Appendix B. Removing Red Hat Enterprise Linux To uninstall Red Hat Enterprise Linux from your system, you must remove the GRUB or LILO infor- mation from your master boot record (MBR). Note It is always a good idea to backup any data that you have on your system(s). Mistakes do happen and can result in the loss all of your data.
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Page 80: B. Removing Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Appendix B. Removing Red Hat Enterprise Linux command will also display the partition’s type (such as linux-swap, ext2, ext3, and so on). print Knowing the type of the partition will help you in determining whether to remove the partition. Remove the partition with the command . -
Page 81: Troubleshooting Your Installation Of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
To change your BIOS, refer to your system manual for the correct keyboard combination that allows you to access your BIOS, or you can read the key sequence needed while the system begins to boot (assuming it is displayed). To find an updated boot diskette image, check the online errata at http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/... -
Page 82: Are You Unable To Boot With Your Raid Card
Appendix C. Troubleshooting Your Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and follow the instructions in Section 2.5.3 Making an Installation Boot Diskette to make an updated boot diskette for your system. C.1.3. Are You Unable to Boot With Your RAID Card? If you have performed an installation and cannot boot your system properly, you may need to reinstall and create your partitions differently. -
Page 83: Trouble Beginning The Installation
Appendix C. Troubleshooting Your Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux For more information concerning signal 11 errors, refer to: http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ C.2. Trouble Beginning the Installation C.2.1. Is Your Mouse Not Detected? If the Mouse Not Detected screen (refer to Figure C-1) appears, then the installation program was not able to identify your mouse correctly. -
Page 84: Trouble During The Installation
For more general information on driver diskettes, refer to Appendix E Driver Media. You can also refer to the Red Hat Hardware Compatibility List, available online at: http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/ C.3.2. Saving Traceback Messages Without a Diskette Drive If you receive a traceback error message during installation, you can usually save it to a diskette. -
Page 85: Other Partitioning Problems For Itanium System Users
Appendix C. Troubleshooting Your Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux C.3.5. Other Partitioning Problems for x86 System Users If you are using Disk Druid to create partitions, but cannot move to the next screen, you probably have not created all the partitions necessary for Disk Druid’s dependencies to be satisfied. You must have the following partitions as a bare minimum: (root) partition •... -
Page 86: Problems After Installation
If you experience such an error, first try to download any available errata for anaconda. Errata can be found at: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/ The anaconda website may also be a useful reference and can be found online at: http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/ You can also search for bug reports related to this problem. -
Page 87: Booting Into A Graphical Environment
Appendix C. Troubleshooting Your Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux C.4.2. Trouble With the Graphical LILO Screen on an x86-based System? If, for some reason, you need to disable the graphical boot screen, you can do so, as root, by editing file and then rerunning LILO. -
Page 88: Problems With The X Window System (Gui)
. This allows you passwd username " to enter a new password for the specified user account. If the graphical login screen does not appear, check your hardware for compatibility issues. The Hard- ware Compatibility List can be found at: http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/... -
Page 89: Is Your Ram Not Being Recognized
Appendix C. Troubleshooting Your Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux C.4.6. Is Your RAM Not Being Recognized? Sometimes, the kernel does not recognize all of your memory (RAM). You can check this with the command. cat /proc/meminfo Find out if the displayed quantity is the same as the known amount of RAM in your system. If they are not equal, add the following line to the /boot/grub/grub.conf mem=xxM... -
Page 90: Your Printer Will Not Work
Printer Configuration Tool. command at a shell prompt to launch the Printer Configura- Type the redhat-config-printer tion Tool. If you are not root, it prompts you for the root password to continue. C.4.8. Problems with Sound Configuration If, for some reason, you do not hear sound and know that you do have a sound card installed, you can run the Sound Card Configuration Tool (... - Page 91 Appendix C. Troubleshooting Your Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux C.4.10. Trouble with NVIDIA chipset If you have an NVIDIA chipset and have just updated your kernel, you may experience problems with the video card, such as not having any video output. If you experience a similar problem, you should download the latest kernel drivers available for your NVIDIA chipset.
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Page 93: An Introduction To Disk Partitions
Appendix D. An Introduction to Disk Partitions Note This appendix is not necessarily applicable to non-x86-based architecures. However, the general concepts mentioned here may apply. Disk partitions are a standard part of the personal computer landscape and have been for quite some time. - Page 94 Appendix D. An Introduction to Disk Partitions Figure D-2. Disk Drive with a File System As Figure D-2, implies, the order imposed by a file system involves some trade-offs: A small percentage of the drive’s available space is used to store file system-related data and can be •...
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Page 95: Partitions: Turning One Drive Into Many
Appendix D. An Introduction to Disk Partitions D.1.2. Partitions: Turning One Drive Into Many As disk drive capacities soared, some people began to wonder if having all of that formatted space in one big chunk was such a great idea. This line of thinking was driven by several issues, some philosophical, some technical. -
Page 96: Partitions Within Partitions - An Overview Of Extended Partitions
Appendix D. An Introduction to Disk Partitions Figure D-6. Disk Drive With Single Partition In many cases, there is only a single partition spanning the entire disk, essentially duplicating the method used before partitions. The partition table has only one entry used, and it points to the start of the partition. -
Page 97: Making Room For Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Appendix D. An Introduction to Disk Partitions continued to grow, it became more and more likely that a person could configure four reasonably- sized partitions and still have disk space left over. There needed to be some way of creating more partitions. - Page 98 Appendix D. An Introduction to Disk Partitions Linux native Figure D-8. Disk Drive with Unpartitioned Free Space In Figure D-8, 1 represents an undefined partition with unallocated space and 2 represents a defined partition with allocated space. If you think about it, an unused hard disk also falls into this category. The only difference is that all the space is not part of any defined partition.
- Page 99 Appendix D. An Introduction to Disk Partitions plete backup is necessary. For your own sake, make two backups, use verification (if available in your backup software), and try to read data from your backup before you delete the partition. Caution If there was an operating system of some type installed on that partition, it needs to be rein- stalled as well.
- Page 100 Appendix D. An Introduction to Disk Partitions Figure D-11. Disk Drive Being Compressed In Figure D-11, 1 represents before and 2 represents after. This step is crucial. Without it, the location of your data could prevent the partition from being resized to the extent desired.
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Page 101: Partition Naming Scheme
Appendix D. An Introduction to Disk Partitions Note The following information is specific to x86-based computers only. As a convenience to our customers, we provide the utility. This is a freely available program parted that can resize partitions. If you decide to repartition your hard drive with , it is important that you be familiar with parted disk storage and that you perform a backup of your computer data. -
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Appendix D. An Introduction to Disk Partitions The final number denotes the partition. The first four (primary or extended) partitions are num- bered through . Logical partitions start at . So, for example, is the third primary /dev/hda3 or extended partition on the first IDE hard disk, and is the second logical partition /dev/sdb6 on the second SCSI hard disk. -
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Appendix D. An Introduction to Disk Partitions Keeping this in mind, we recommend that, unless you have a reason for doing otherwise, you should at least create the following partitions: (or a partition for Itanium systems)„ swap /boot/ /boot/efi/ /boot/efi/, and (root). - Page 104 Appendix D. An Introduction to Disk Partitions On First IDE or First SCSI Drive If you have one IDE (or EIDE) drive and one or more SCSI drives, must be located /boot/ either on the IDE drive or the SCSI drive at ID 0. No other SCSI IDs will work. On First Two SCSI Drives If you have only SCSI hard drives, must be located on a drive at ID 0 or ID 1.
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Page 105: Driver Media
Appendix E. Driver Media E.1. Why Do I Need Driver Media? While the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation program is loading, a screen may appear asking you for driver media. The driver media screen is most often seen in the following scenarios: If you need to perform an installation from a network device •... -
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Another option for finding specialized driver information is on Red Hat’s website at http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/ under the section called Bug Fixes. Occasionally, popular hardware may be made available after a release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux that does not work with drivers already in the installation program or included on the driver images on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD #1. -
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Appendix F. Additional Boot Options This appendix discusses additional boot and kernel boot options available for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation program. To use any of the boot options presented here, type the command you wish to invoke at the installation prompt. - Page 108 This command relaxes some of the checks on your file. If your /etc/redhat-release file has been changed from the default, your Red Hat Enterprise /etc/redhat-release Linux installation may not be found when attempting an upgrade to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
- Page 109 Appendix F. Additional Boot Options nopass This command disables the passing of keyboard and mouse information to stage 2 of the instal- lation program. It can be used to test keyboard and mouse configuration screens during stage 2 of the installation program when performing a network installation. nopcmcia This command ignores any PCMCIA controllers in system.
- Page 110 Appendix F. Additional Boot Options This command allows you to install from a VNC server. vncpassword= This command sets the password used to connect to the VNC server.
- Page 111 Appendix G. Additional Resources about Itanium and Linux Other reference materials, related to running Red Hat Enterprise Linux on an Itanium system, are available on the Web. A few of the available resources are as follows: http://www.linuxia64.org/ — The Official Home Page of the Itanium Linux Project •...
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Index kernel, 95 boot.iso, 19 mediacheck, 19 Symbols serial mode, 19 /boot/ partition UTF-8, 19 recommended partitioning, 34 text mode, 19 /boot/efi/, 34 /root/install.log boot.img, 18 install log file location, 51 boot.iso, 19 /var/ partition bootable CD-ROM, 20 recommended partitioning, 34 booting installation program from a CD-ROM, 18... - Page 114 installation, 8, 24 DASD installation, 22 creating installation diskette, 8 deleting partitions, 37 Disk Druid GRUB, 37, 60 adding partitions, 35 alternatives to, 41, 65 file system type, 36 commercial products, 41, 65 buttons, 33 LOADLIN, 41, 65 deleting partitions, 37 SYSLINUX, 41, 65 editing partitions, 37 BIOS-related issues, 91...
- Page 115 HTTP, 8, 25 Itanium overview, 1 language keyboard navigation, 16 selecting, 26 mediacheck, 19 support for multiple languages, 46 method LILO, 37, 60 alternatives to, 41, 65 CD-ROM, 20 commercial products, 41, 65 FTP, 21 LOADLIN, 41, 65 hard drive, 20 SYSLINUX, 41, 65 HTTP, 21 BIOS-related issues, 91...
- Page 116 selecting packages packages, 49 groups, 49 SMP motherboards selecting, 49 GRUB, 42, 65 installing, 49 LILO, 42, 65 selecting, 49 starting parted partitioning utility, 89 installation, 16, 21 partition startup.nsh, 57 extended, 84 steps Partition Magic, 41, 65 disk space, 4 partitioning, 31 hardware compatibility, 3 automatic, 28, 30...
- Page 117 boot diskette, 69 CD-ROM, 69 RAID cards, 70 signal 11 error, 70 CD-ROM failure CD-ROM verification, 19 during the installation No devices found to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux error message, 72 saving traceback messages without a diskette drive, 72 during the installation, 72 completing partitions, 73, 73 partition tables, 72...
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Page 119: Colophon
Colophon The manuals are written in DocBook SGML v4.1 format. The HTML and PDF formats are produced using custom DSSSL stylesheets and custom jade wrapper scripts. The DocBook SGML files are written in Emacs with the help of PSGML mode. Garrett LeSage created the admonition graphics (note, tip, important, caution, and warning).