Introduction - Red Hat LINUX 7.2 - S-390 Manual

Section 0.1:Document Conventions

Introduction

Welcome to the Official Red Hat Linux for S/390 Installation Guide.
The Official Red Hat Linux for S/390 Installation Guide contains useful information to assist you
during the installation of Red Hat Linux. From fundamental concepts such as installation preparation
(gathering 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 S/390
lation as outlined in this manual, you will have a fully functioning Red Hat Linux system.
Document 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 (e.g., 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
Filenames, directory names, paths and RPM package names are represented this way. This style
should indicate that a particular file or directory exists by that name on your Red Hat Linux
system. Examples:
The .bashrc file in your home directory contains bash shell definitions and aliases for your
own use.
The /etc/fstab file contains information about different system devices and filesystems.
The /usr/share/doc directory contains documentation for various programs.
Install the webalizer RPM if you want to use a Web server log file analysis program.
1 S/390 and zSeries hardware systems are commonly referred to as the mainframe.
to invoke a command. Sometimes a command contains words that would be
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installation. Once you have completed the instal-
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