Booting The Installation Program - Red Hat LINUX 7.1 - ISERIES Manual

Section 3.2:Booting the Installation Program
• Button widget — button widgets are the primary method of interacting with the installation pro-
gram. You progress through the windows of the installation program by navigating these buttons,
using the and
[Tab]
• Cursor — although not a widget, the cursor is used to select (and interact) with a particular widget.
As the cursor is moved from widget to widget, it may cause the widget to change color, or you may
only see the cursor itself positioned in or next to the widget. In Figure 3–1, Installation Program
Widgets as seen in
Installation Program Widgets as seen in Disk Druid shows the cursor on the
3.1.1 Using the Keyboard to Navigate
Navigation through the installation dialogs is performed through a simple set of keystrokes. To move
the cursor, use ,
[Left] [Right]
or backward through each widget on the screen. Along the bottom, most screens display a summary
of available cursor positioning keys.
To "press" a button, position the cursor over the button (using
or . To select an item from a list of items, move the cursor to the item you wish to select and
[Enter]
press [Enter] . To select an item with a checkbox, move the cursor to the checkbox and press
to select an item. To deselect, press
Pressing accepts the current values and proceeds to the next dialog; it is equivalent to pressing
[F12]
the button.
OK
Unless a dialog box is waiting for your input, do not press any keys during
the installation process (doing so may result in unpredictable behavior).

3.2 Booting the Installation Program

Insert the installation CD into the CD-ROM drive. Determine the volume name by which OS/400
refers to the CD. This can be found by executing the command wrklnk '/qopt/*' at the OS/400
command line. Unless there is another CD with the same label in another drive, the volume name will
be Red_Hat. Note, if the volume name includes a timestamp (as it does when there are name con-
flicts), ejecting and re-inserting the CD will cause the volume name to change and you must determine
what it is again.
If you will be installing to SCSI disks, you must have a copy of the ibmsis driver CD-ROM. If you
have multiple CD-ROM drives available to the target LPAR, you must determine which CD-ROM
keys. Buttons can be selected when they are highlighted.
[Enter]
, the cursor is positioned on the
Configure TCP/IP
, , and
[Up] [Down]
a second time.
[Space]
arrow keys. Use
[Tab]
[Tab]
CAUTION
button. Figure 3–2,
OK
Edit button.
, and - to cycle forward
[Alt] [Tab]
, for example) and press
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[Space]
[Space]