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STEP 19. Find Video Adapter

The installation program has conducted a probe using the PCI Prove and found the video adapter. Select OK.

X Prove Results

Video Card: Generic Mach64
X Server : Mach64

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Once you have select OK, you will briefly see an Install Status box while the installation program loads the appropriate video-adapter server.

STEP 20. Create Install Log

Select OK on the next screen. Note that the install.log file can come in very handy, helping to bail you out of unforeseen trouble.

Installation to begin

A complete log of your installation will be in /tmp/install.log after rebooting your system. you may want to keep this log for future reference.

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STEP 21. Search for Overlapping Files

Next, the installation program looks for any overlapping files-that is, files that would be duplicated during the new installation process. The pertinent screen appears only in cases where you are trying to preserve at least some part of your previous system. you can ignore these messages if they do appear unless you are checking to see if a

Package Group Selection

[*] Printer Support
[*] X Window System
[*] GNOME
[*] KDE
[*] DOS/Windows Connectivity
[*] Networked Workstation
[*] NFS Server
[*] Anonymous FTP Server
[*] Kernel Development
[*] Utilities
[*] Select individual packages

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If you are performance-minded, you may want to be somewhat selective at this stage. If performance is not a primary consideration, you may want to choose all components and, thus, all of the packages. As you scroll down through this dialog box, you will eventually see the Everything choice at the bottom of the component list.

WARNING: The installation program will tell you if you have inadequate disk space. In the meantime, do not forget your planning and do not make disk space too light in the root (/) and /usr file-system partitions. Finally, be sure to avoid removing mandatory packages, such as the kernel and certain libraries and their respective support packages.

Try to solve all package dependencies before continuing. (As mentioned earlier, one package or component may not work unless its companion package or packages are also installed.) However, If any dependencies are inadvertently mussed, the installation program will warn you of that as well. You can still add them at any time after installation.

Mouse Selection

Which model of mouse is attached to this computer?

ALPS -GlidePoint (PS/2)
ASCII-MieMouse (PS/2)
ASCII-MieMouse (serial)
ATI -Bus Mouse
Generic-2 Button Mouse (PS/2)
Generic-2 Button Mouse (serial)
Generic-3 Button Mouse (PS/2)
Generic-3 Button Mouse (PS/2)
[*] Emulate 3 Buttons?

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STEP 15. Configure the Time Zone

During the development of this installation exercise, we chose Canada/Mountain time Zone. Choose whichever is appropriate to your present location. If you ever wish to change the time configuration, use the /usr/sbin/timeconfig command.

Configure Time Zone

Format machine time is stored in:

[ ] Hardware clock set to GMT

Africa/Abidjan

Canada/Mountain #

Zulu

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STEP 17. Configure Authentication

Accept the following defaults to use shadow passwords and allow the use of MD5 encryption.

Authentication Configuration

[*] Use Shadow Passwords
[*] Enable MD5 Passwords
[ ] Enable NIS

NIS Domain:
NIS Server: [ ] Request via Broadcast
or use:
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STEP 18. Choose Components to Install

Components are groups of software packages that provide a service or feature to the system. The components list in our next screen does not display all the possible selections; rather, only the ones we suggest installing for this exercise. you may note that the dialog box on your screen is a little smaller than the one shown next; by following the arrows , you will eventually reveal all the components.

To see the packages that comprise the components, choose Select individual packages. Before you do so, be prepared; this will slow down the installation process. You also run the risk of mistakenly installing parts of components or packages that will not work because other packages they depend on have not been installed. Nevertheless, if you have the time, go ahead and browse through the list during the installation.

STEP 16. Set Root Password

Remember to choose a good password and then make sure you remember it. Linux has rules and guidelines for proper passwords. It would pay to review them in the man pages and Red Hat online documentation.

Root Password

Pick a root password. You must type it twice to ensure you know what it is and didn’t make a mistake in typing. Remember that the root password is a critical par of system security!

Password:
Password (again):

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The installation process allows you to add other users at this time. You need not add all users now, though, because you can revisit this task at anytime after completing the installation. The reason the Add User dialog appears here is to allow you to log in to the system for the first time as a user and switch to a root user to perform the first set of system administration task, which is considered proper form.

Add User

Enter the information for the user .

User ID: dbadmin
Fullname: Database Administrator
Password:
Password: (confirm):

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box for each of those partitions. After each partition is created, clicking on the OK button in Edit New Partition will update the Current Disk Partitions and return you to that box. To continue creating partitions, you have to click Add again.

When creating the root, /usr and /home partitions, in turn, you”ll have to enter their mount points (/. /usr and /home, respectively), enter the desired size of the partition and set the type to Linux Native. When creating the swap partition, do not enter a mount point (that is, leave the entry blank) , enter the desired size, and set the type to Linux Swap.

Edit New Partition

Mount Point: /_____________________________
Size (Megs): 800 Type:Linux Swap
Grow to fill disk?[ ] Linux Native
Allowable drive: [ ]hda DOS 16 bit <32M
DOS 16 bit >=32M

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If you are editing existing partitions, then this dialog box will be slightly different. For example, the Type will already be specified. There will be an Allocation Status field, which will read Successful or Unsuccessful, rather than the Allowable Drive Specification. Again, clicking on OK will return you to the (updated) Current Disk Partition screen.

STEP 10. Create New Hard-Disk Partitions

Appearing in the next screen in the configuration we suggest using for this installation. If you are configuring your hard disk according to the exercise in Chapter 2, then consult your planning sheet and create, add, and edit the partitions until they match what you need.

Note that every time you add, delete, or edit your partitions you will be returned to this dialog box. Every time it will show you how you are progressing, with new or different partitions or other specifications. Remember that none of the changes will take effect until you select OK at the very end of the partitioning process.

Once you have the configuration you want, select OK to save these changes to your configuration tables.

CURRENT DISK PARTITIONS

Mount Point Device Requested Actual Type

/ hda1 800M 3631M Linux native
/usr hda5 700M 3200M Linux native
/home hda6 268M 1239M Linux native
hda7 128M 133M Linux swap

Drive Summaries
Drive Geom [(C/H/S)] Total Used Free
hda [3067/64/32] 8205M 8204M 1M [ ]

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Step 11. Format New System Partitions

For this installation, you are going to format all of the partitions to ensure that they are clean. The partition tables were replace by Disk Druid; the installation program actually removes and replaces the existing data blocks. You should select the Check for bad blocks during format option. In fact, if you are installing Linux on a production system, we highly recommend that you select this option, even though the process may take a while on some large or (heaven forbid) damaged disks.

It should go without saying that all newly created partitions should be formatted. If you have preserved partitions from a previous configuration and you do not mind removing the data in them then they too.

should be formatted again. On the other hand, don’t format existing partitions containing files or data that you want to preserve. Remember that preserving partitions applies most if you are upgrading Linux.

PARTITIONS TO FORMAT

What partitions would you like to format? We strongly suggest formatting all of the system partitions, including /, /usr, and /var. There is no need to format /home or /usr/ local if they have already been configured during a previous install.
[ * ] /dev/hda1 /
[ * ] /dev/hda6 /home
[ * ] /dev/hda5 /usr
[ * ] check for bad blocks during format

STEP 12. LILO CONFIGURATION

A LILO Configuration screen appears, which ask about use of linear mode (required by some SCSI hard drives). We do not have SCSI hard drives. If you were to choose to enable this feature it would have no effect, nor would it cause any problems.

LILO CONFIGURATION

A few systems will need to pass special options to the kernel at boot time for the system to function properly. If you need to pass boot options to the kernel, enter them now. If you don’t need any or aren’t sure leave this blank.

[ ] Use linear mode (needed for some SCSI drives)

We plan to use LILO to manage the disk. Therefore, at the next screen choose the Master Boot Record option and then press OK.
LILO INSTALLATION
Where do you want to install the bootloader?

/dev/hda Master Boot Record
/dev/hda1 First sector of boot partition

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For this installation, we are only installing Linux. Thus, we will select OK for the default /dev/hda1 partition which has been highlighted for us by the installation process. If there where already another operating system installed on another partition, then we would have more than one selection here. Eventually, when the system booted up, we would have to choose which operating system to boot. We highly recommend, if you are installing Linux on a production system that no other operating systems be installed. In other working environments, however, such as at home, you might appreciate having more than one operating system.

LILO CONFIGURATION

The boot manager RED HAT uses can boot other operating systems as well. You need to tell me what partitions you would like to be able to boot and what label you want to use for each of them.

Device Partition Default Boot Label

/dev/hda1 Linux Native * Linux

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DISK SETUP

Disk druid is a tool for partitioning and setting up mount points. It is design to be easier to use than Linux’s traditional disk partitioning software, fdisk, as well as more powerful. However, there are some cases were fdisk may be preferred.

Which tool would you like to use?

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STEP 8. VIEW HARD-DISK ATTRIBUTES

The next screen indicates that you have an 8.2 GB IDE hard disk thatit calls drive hda which is correct for an IDE drive. We now proceed to create the file-system partitions. Select Add.

CURRENT DISK PARTITIONS

Mount Point Device Requested Actual Type

Drive Summaries
Drive Geom [C/H/S] Total Used Free
hda [1046/255/63] 8205M 0m 8205m [ ]

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STEP 9. ADD or EDIT PARTITIONS

The Edit New Partitions dialog box, shown next, will appear whenever you select Add or Edit in the Current Disk Partitions dialog box. In this example, you will be creating a couple of primary partitions: a Linux Native partition containing several logical partitions (namely, the root partition, the /usr partition and the /home partition); and a Linux swap partition. So you will see the Edit New Partition dialog