The Installation Program User Interface - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX AS 2.1 Installation Manual

Section 4.2:The Installation Program User Interface
• Your monitor — the unit's make and model number, along with allowable ranges for horizontal
and vertical refresh rates. (Newer models may be auto-detected by the installation program.)
4.1.3 Network-related Information
If you are connected to a network, be sure you know the following:
• IP address — usually represented as a set of four numbers separated by dots, such as 10.0.2.15.
• Netmask — another set of four numbers separated by dots; an example netmask would be
255.255.248.0.
• Gateway IP address — another set of four dot-separated numbers; for example, 10.0.2.254.
• One or more name server IP addresses — one or more sets of dot-separated numbers; for example,
10.0.2.1 might be the address of a name server.
• Domain name — the name your organization uses; for example, Red Hat has a domain name of
redhat.com.
• Hostname — the name assigned to your individual system; for example, a computer might be
named pooh.
The information provided here is as an example only! Do not use it when you
install Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS! If you do not know the proper values
for your network, ask your network administrator.

4.2 The Installation Program User Interface

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS text mode installation program uses a screen-based interface that
includes most of the on-screen "widgets" commonly found on graphical user interfaces. Figure 4–1,
Installation Program Widgets as seen in
Widgets as seen in Disk Druid , illustrate the screens you will see.
Note
, and Figure 4–2, Installation Program
Configure TCP/IP
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