Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX WS 2.1 Installation Manual

Contents

98GRUB issues related to, 90how many partitions, 90introduction to, 80LILO issues related to, 90making room for partitions, 83mount points and, 89naming partitions, 88non-destructive, 85numbering partitions, 88other operating systems, 89recommended, 25types of partitions, 81using free space, 83using in-use partition, 85using unused partition, 84with fdisk, 29passwordGRUB, 33setting root, 39user accounts, 41pre-installation information, 51Rrawritecreating installation diskette, 4recursion(See recursion)Red Hat FAQ, iiiregistering your product, 1removingGRUB, 63LILO, 63Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS, 63rescue mode, 31root / partition, 25root partition(See partition, root)root password, 39Sselectingpackages, 42serial mode installation, 13, 55SMP motherboardsGRUB, 32LILO, 32startinginstallation, 12, 15, 54stepschoosing an installation class, 5disk space, 2hardware compatibility, 2installing with CD-ROM, 3Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS components, 1support, technical(See technical support)swap, 25custom auto-partition, 7swap partition(See partition, swap)SYSLINUX, 32System Commander, 32system requirements table, 9Ttablesreference, 9system requirements, 9text mode cross-reference, 56technical support, 65how to send questions for, 68how to state problems for, 68not provided for other companies’ products, 66policy overview, 65registering online, 67signing up for, 67text mode installationcross-reference table, 56time zoneconfiguration, 38troubleshooting, 69after the installation, 72graphical GRUB screen, 72graphical LILO screen, 72logging in, 73Netscape Navigator, 73printers and X, 73RAM not recognized, 74server installations and X, 73sound configuration, 75beginning the installation, 70GUI installation method unavailable, 70mouse not detected, 70booting, 69network boot disk, 69RAID cards, 69signal 11 error, 69during the installation, 71completing partitions, 71creating partitions, 71Python errors, 71using remaining hard drive space, 71graphical installationno framebuffer mode, 13

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