Chapter 1 Introduction; Documentation Conventions - Red Hat LINUX 7.1 - ISERIES Manual

Section 1.1:Documentation Conventions
1 Introduction
Welcome to the Official Red Hat Linux iSeries Installation Guide.
The Official Red Hat Linux iSeries Installation Guide contains useful information to assist you during
the installation of Red Hat Linux. From fundamental concepts such as installation preparation (gath-
ering information about your current system) to the step-by-step installation procedure, this book will
be a valuable resource as you install Red Hat Linux.
This manual will walk you through a typical installation using the Red Hat Linux CD-ROMs. Once
you have completed the installation as outlined in this manual, you will have a fully functioning Red
Hat Linux desktop system.
In order to complete the installation process, you must follow all steps as
given in Section 3.22, Installation Complete. If these steps are not appro-
priately followed, you will not have a fully functioning Red Hat Linux
iSeries installation.

1.1 Documentation Conventions

When you read this manual, you will see that certain words are represented in different fonts, type-
faces, sizes and weights. This highlighting is systematic; different words are represented in the same
style to indicate their inclusion in a specific category. The types of words that are represented this way
include the following:
command
Linux commands (and other operating system commands, when used) are represented this way.
This style should indicate to you that you can type in the word or phrase on the command line
and press
[Enter]
displayed in a different style on their own (like filenames). In these cases, they are considered
to be part of the command, so the entire phrase will be displayed as a command. For example:
Use the cat testfile command to view the contents of a file, named testfile, in the
current working directory.
filename
WARNING
to invoke a command. Sometimes a command contains words that would be
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