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- Table of Contents
- CHAPTER 1. OBTAINING RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX
- CHAPTER 2. MAKING MEDIA
- PART I. X86, AMD64, AND INTEL 64 — INSTALLATION AND BOOTING
- CHAPTER 3. PLANNING FOR INSTALLATION ON THE X86 ARCHITECTURE
- CHAPTER 4. PREPARING FOR INSTALLATION
- CHAPTER 5. SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS LIST
- CHAPTER 6. UPDATING DRIVERS DURING INSTALLATION ON INTEL AND AMD SYSTEMS
- CHAPTER 7. BOOTING THE INSTALLER
- CHAPTER 8. CONFIGURING LANGUAGE AND INSTALLATION SOURCE
- CHAPTER 9. INSTALLING USING ANACONDA
- 9.1. THE TEXT MODE INSTALLATION PROGRAM USER INTERFACE
- 9.2. THE GRAPHICAL INSTALLATION PROGRAM USER INTERFACE
- 9.3. WELCOME TO RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX
- 9.4. LANGUAGE SELECTION
- 9.5. KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION
- 9.6. STORAGE DEVICES
- 9.7. SETTING THE HOSTNAME
- 9.8. TIME ZONE CONFIGURATION
- 9.9. SET THE ROOT PASSWORD
- 9.10. ASSIGN STORAGE DEVICES
- 9.11. INITIALIZING THE HARD DISK
- 9.12. UPGRADING AN EXISTING SYSTEM
- 9.13. DISK PARTITIONING SETUP
- 9.14. CHOOSING A DISK ENCRYPTION PASSPHRASE
- 9.15. CREATING A CUSTOM LAYOUT OR MODIFYING THE DEFAULT LAYOUT
- 9.16. WRITE CHANGES TO DISK
- 9.17. PACKAGE GROUP SELECTION
- 9.18. X86, AMD64, AND INTEL 64 BOOT LOADER CONFIGURATION
- 9.19. INSTALLING PACKAGES
- 9.20. INSTALLATION COMPLETE
- CHAPTER 10. TROUBLESHOOTING INSTALLATION ON AN INTEL OR AMD SYSTEM
- 10.1. YOU ARE UNABLE TO BOOT RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX
- 10.2. TROUBLE BEGINNING THE INSTALLATION
- 10.3. TROUBLE DURING THE INSTALLATION
- 10.4. PROBLEMS AFTER INSTALLATION
- 10.4.1. Trouble With the Graphical GRUB Screen on an x86-based System?
- 10.4.2. Booting into a Graphical Environment
- 10.4.3. Problems with the X Window System (GUI)
- 10.4.4. Problems with the X Server Crashing and Non-Root Users
- 10.4.5. Problems When You Try to Log In
- 10.4.6. Is Your RAM Not Being Recognized?
- 10.4.7. Your Printer Does Not Work
- 10.4.8. Apache HTTP Server or Sendmail Stops Responding During Startup
- PART II. IBM POWER SYSTEMS — INSTALLATION AND BOOTING
- CHAPTER 11. PLANNING FOR INSTALLATION ON POWER SYSTEMS SERVERS
- CHAPTER 12. PREPARING FOR INSTALLATION
- CHAPTER 13. UPDATING DRIVERS DURING INSTALLATION ON IBM POWER SYSTEMS SERVERS
- CHAPTER 14. BOOTING THE INSTALLER
- CHAPTER 15. CONFIGURING LANGUAGE AND INSTALLATION SOURCE
- CHAPTER 16. INSTALLING USING ANACONDA
- 16.1. THE TEXT MODE INSTALLATION PROGRAM USER INTERFACE
- 16.2. THE GRAPHICAL INSTALLATION PROGRAM USER INTERFACE
- 16.3. A NOTE ABOUT LINUX VIRTUAL CONSOLES
- 16.4. USING THE HMC VTERM
- 16.5. WELCOME TO RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX
- 16.6. LANGUAGE SELECTION
- 16.7. KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION
- 16.8. STORAGE DEVICES
- 16.9. SETTING THE HOSTNAME
- 16.10. TIME ZONE CONFIGURATION
- 16.11. SET THE ROOT PASSWORD
- 16.12. ASSIGN STORAGE DEVICES
- 16.13. INITIALIZING THE HARD DISK
- 16.14. UPGRADING AN EXISTING SYSTEM
- 16.15. DISK PARTITIONING SETUP
- 16.16. CHOOSING A DISK ENCRYPTION PASSPHRASE
- 16.17. CREATING A CUSTOM LAYOUT OR MODIFYING THE DEFAULT LAYOUT
- 16.18. WRITE CHANGES TO DISK
- 16.19. PACKAGE GROUP SELECTION
- 16.20. INSTALLING PACKAGES
- 16.21. INSTALLATION COMPLETE
- CHAPTER 17. TROUBLESHOOTING INSTALLATION ON AN IBM POWER SYSTEMS SERVER
- 17.1. YOU ARE UNABLE TO BOOT RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX
- 17.2. TROUBLE BEGINNING THE INSTALLATION
- 17.3. TROUBLE DURING THE INSTALLATION
- 17.4. PROBLEMS AFTER INSTALLATION
- 17.4.1. Unable to IPL from *NWSSTG
- 17.4.2. Booting into a Graphical Environment
- 17.4.3. Problems with the X Window System (GUI)
- 17.4.4. Problems with the X Server Crashing and Non-Root Users
- 17.4.5. Problems When You Try to Log In
- 17.4.6. Your Printer Does Not Work
- 17.4.7. Apache HTTP Server or Sendmail Stops Responding During Startup
- PART III. IBM SYSTEM Z ARCHITECTURE - INSTALLATION AND BOOTING
- CHAPTER 18. PLANNING FOR INSTALLATION ON SYSTEM Z
- CHAPTER 19. PREPARING FOR INSTALLATION
- CHAPTER 20. BOOTING (IPL) THE INSTALLER
- CHAPTER 21. INSTALLATION PHASE 1: CONFIGURING A NETWORK DEVICE
- CHAPTER 22. INSTALLATION PHASE 2: CONFIGURING LANGUAGE AND INSTALLATION SOURCE
- CHAPTER 23. INSTALLATION PHASE 3: INSTALLING USING ANACONDA
- 23.1. THE NON-INTERACTIVE LINE-MODE TEXT INSTALLATION PROGRAM OUTPUT
- 23.2. THE TEXT MODE INSTALLATION PROGRAM USER INTERFACE
- 23.3. THE GRAPHICAL INSTALLATION PROGRAM USER INTERFACE
- 23.4. CONFIGURE THE INSTALL TERMINAL
- 23.5. WELCOME TO RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX
- 23.6. STORAGE DEVICES
- 23.7. SETTING THE HOSTNAME
- 23.8. TIME ZONE CONFIGURATION
- 23.9. SET THE ROOT PASSWORD
- 23.10. ASSIGN STORAGE DEVICES
- 23.11. INITIALIZING THE HARD DISK
- 23.12. UPGRADING AN EXISTING SYSTEM
- 23.13. DISK PARTITIONING SETUP
- 23.14. CHOOSING A DISK ENCRYPTION PASSPHRASE
- 23.15. CREATING A CUSTOM LAYOUT OR MODIFYING THE DEFAULT LAYOUT
- 23.16. WRITE CHANGES TO DISK
- 23.17. PACKAGE GROUP SELECTION
- 23.18. INSTALLING PACKAGES
- 23.19. INSTALLATION COMPLETE
- CHAPTER 24. TROUBLESHOOTING INSTALLATION ON IBM SYSTEM Z
- CHAPTER 25. CONFIGURING AN INSTALLED LINUX ON SYSTEM Z INSTANCE
- 25.1. ADDING DASDS
- 25.2. ADDING FCP-ATTACHED LOGICAL UNITS (LUNS)
- 25.3. ADDING A NETWORK DEVICE
- CHAPTER 26. PARAMETER AND CONFIGURATION FILES
- CHAPTER 27. IBM SYSTEM Z REFERENCES
- PART IV. ADVANCED INSTALLATION OPTIONS
- CHAPTER 28. BOOT OPTIONS
- CHAPTER 29. INSTALLING WITHOUT MEDIA
- CHAPTER 30. SETTING UP AN INSTALLATION SERVER
- CHAPTER 31. INSTALLING THROUGH VNC
- CHAPTER 32. KICKSTART INSTALLATIONS
- 32.1. WHAT ARE KICKSTART INSTALLATIONS?
- 32.2. HOW DO YOU PERFORM A KICKSTART INSTALLATION?
- 32.3. CREATING THE KICKSTART FILE
- 32.4. KICKSTART OPTIONS
- 32.5. PACKAGE SELECTION
- 32.6. PRE-INSTALLATION SCRIPT
- 32.7. POST-INSTALLATION SCRIPT
- 32.8. KICKSTART EXAMPLES
- 32.9. MAKING THE KICKSTART FILE AVAILABLE
- 32.10. MAKING THE INSTALLATION TREE AVAILABLE
- 32.11. STARTING A KICKSTART INSTALLATION
- CHAPTER 33. KICKSTART CONFIGURATOR
- 33.1. BASIC CONFIGURATION
- 33.2. INSTALLATION METHOD
- 33.3. BOOT LOADER OPTIONS
- 33.4. PARTITION INFORMATION
- 33.5. NETWORK CONFIGURATION
- 33.6. AUTHENTICATION
- 33.7. FIREWALL CONFIGURATION
- 33.8. DISPLAY CONFIGURATION
- 33.9. PACKAGE SELECTION
- 33.10. PRE-INSTALLATION SCRIPT
- 33.11. POST-INSTALLATION SCRIPT
- 33.12. SAVING THE FILE
- PART V. AFTER INSTALLATION
- CHAPTER 34. FIRSTBOOT
- CHAPTER 35. YOUR NEXT STEPS
- CHAPTER 36. BASIC SYSTEM RECOVERY
- CHAPTER 37. UPGRADING YOUR CURRENT SYSTEM
- CHAPTER 38. UNREGISTERING FROM RED HAT SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT SERVICES
- CHAPTER 39. REMOVING RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX FROM X86-BASED SYSTEMS
- 39.1. RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX IS THE ONLY OPERATING SYSTEM ON THE COMPUTER
- 39.2. YOUR COMPUTER DUAL-BOOTS RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX AND ANOTHER OPERATING SYSTEM
- 39.3. REPLACING RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX WITH MS-DOS OR LEGACY VERSIONS OF MICROSOFT WINDOWS
- CHAPTER 40. REMOVING RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX FROM IBM SYSTEM Z
- PART VI. TECHNICAL APPENDICES
- APPENDIX A. AN INTRODUCTION TO DISK PARTITIONS
- A.1. HARD DISK BASIC CONCEPTS
- A.1.1. It is Not What You Write, it is How You Write It
- A.1.2. Partitions: Turning One Drive Into Many
- A.1.3. Partitions Within Partitions — An Overview of Extended Partitions
- A.1.4. GUID Partition Table (GPT)
- A.1.5. Making Room For Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- A.1.6. Partition Naming Scheme
- A.1.7. Disk Partitions and Other Operating Systems
- A.1.8. Disk Partitions and Mount Points
- A.1.9. How Many Partitions?
- A.1. HARD DISK BASIC CONCEPTS
- APPENDIX B. ISCSI DISKS
- APPENDIX C. DISK ENCRYPTION
- C.1. WHAT IS BLOCK DEVICE ENCRYPTION?
- C.2. ENCRYPTING BLOCK DEVICES USING DM-CRYPT/LUKS6TIT
- C.3. CREATING ENCRYPTED BLOCK DEVICES IN ANACONDA
- C.4. CREATING ENCRYPTED BLOCK DEVICES ON THE INSTALLED SYSTEM AFTER INSTALLATION
- C.4.1. Create the Block Devices
- C.4.2. Optional: Fill the Device with Random Data
- C.4.3. Format the Device as a dm-crypt/LUKS Encrypted Device
- C.4.4. Create a Mapping to Allow Access to the Device's Decrypted Contents
- C.4.5. Create File Systems on the Mapped Device or Continue to Build Complex Storage Structures Using the Mapped Device
- C.4.6. Add the Mapping Information to /etc/crypttab
- C.4.7. Add an Entry to /etc/fstab
- C.5. COMMON POST-INSTALLATION TASKS
- APPENDIX D. UNDERSTANDING LVM
- APPENDIX E. THE GRUB BOOT LOADER
- APPENDIX F. BOOT PROCESS, INIT, AND SHUTDOWN
- APPENDIX G. ALTERNATIVES TO BUSYBOX COMMANDS
- APPENDIX H. OTHER TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION
- APPENDIX I. REVISION HISTORY
- INDEX