This document outlines the set of requirements and guidelines for file and directory placement under the Linux operating system according to those of the FSSTND v2.3 final (January 29, 2004) and also its actual implementation. Linux Tutorial - Fedora Core and Red Hat Linux CD Installation, Version Upgrade, Configuration and Basic Administration. Configuration options. You have two choices, a single Operating System (OS) or a multi- boot system. Many desktop users like to run Linux in addition to Windows on an.
PC. An additional hard drive may be used for Linux or an. Linux. may also reside as the only operating system on the computer as. Using a separate drive for. Linux is the easiest and the preferred multi- boot configuration because it allows the original Windows drive to remain intact. Another dual boot system option is to install the Linux boot loader on a floppy or CD. See the Yo. Linux. Fedora Core and Red Hat Linux installation for enterprise 5, 4 and legacy versions 9.0, 8.0, 7.3, 7.2, 7.1, 7.0, 6.2, 6.1, 6.0 and 5.2. The Tutorial covers many of the pitfalls users encounter during installation. The tutorial.The boot process will be controlled by the MS/Windows boot loader. In order to boot the Linux drive, insert the floppy or CD with the Linux boot loader (Lilo or Grub) and boot from the floppy or CD. The Linux boot loader can be installed on the MBR of the floppy. Note: Re- partitioning a drive will destroy. The Red Hat CD- ROM includes the repartitioning tool "fips" in. See /dosutils/fipsdocs. This tool is. unsupported. Partition Magic would be a wiser choice for those. For dual boot installations, MS/Windows can be. Microsoft installer to repartition the drive. For those creating a dual boot system with Microsoft Windows and versions. Fedora Core or Red Hat Linux (8/9) with the GRUB boot loader, install. Windows first and then let the Linux installation handle the dual boot. It's that easy. Details: When creating a dual boot system with Windows NT or Windows 2. NT. loader resides on the Master Boot Record (MBR). Upon boot- up, the NT loader. Grub to boot Linux. Lilo is the older Linux boot loader. Red Hat 7. 2 introduced Grub as the default. In this instance, lilo (or Grub) does not reside on the Master Boot Record (MBR) as it. Windows 9. 5 or Linux only installation. Instead lilo (or Grub) will install on the first. Upgrades: I have been upgrading versions of Red Hat since 5. Each release. can upgrade to the next. Fedora Core is the upgrade path to Red Hat 9. Hardware considerations. The latest releases of the Linux kernel will have the best chance at supporting newer hardware. Older versions may require downloading drivers separately and introducing them during install. Thus the latest release of Fedora Core will have the best chance of supporting the latest graphics cards and SATA chipsets. Other Linux OSs which tend to include the latest kernels and thus the latest. Su. SE and Ubuntu Linux. Most PC motherboard support two IDE connectors, a primary and a secondary. Each IDE connector has. A typical PC with one hard drive and one CD- ROM can thus support two more. A jumper on the device will set the device to be either the. IDE connection. (You can't have both devices configured as master or slave on one IDE ribbon. Also check the hardware compatibility list before you begin. AMD x. 86_6. 4: The wonderful thing about this hardware and a release of. Linux compiled for this hardware is that it runs all your old i. In order to run third party browser plug- ins for which there is no source. Macromedia Flash, Real Player, ..) do NOT install the x. OS. I run Fedora Core 3 x. AMD Athelon 6. 4 but installed and run the. Fedora Core 3 RPM for the firefox browser. This allows all of the. One can also run programs compiled for i. How's that for compatibility!! The Fedora Core 3 Linux release has /usr/lib. You will also find /usr/X1. R6/lib. 64/ and /usr/X1. R6/lib/. as well as compatibility libraries for i. The compilers gcc/g++ will compile a 6. Given the option "- m. It's the ultimate developers platform as well!! I even have no problem running some old Red Hat Powertools 7. RPMs. Due to the native and highly integrated x. The advantage of compiled 6. This information should also be true for the Intel EM6. T architecture. Documentation on the Installation CD. Online manuals can be read from the Linux. CD- ROM by any operating system. From Windows you can look. Linux CD and open the files with a web browser. Fedora Core 1- 6. Release notes are on the first CD. For documentation see http: //docs. RH 8. 0, 9. 0. Documentation is contained on a CD separate from the 3 installation CD's. RH 7. 2: Red Hat 7. Documentation is held on. CD with the same paths and files (If you substitute 7. CDROM: \RH- DOCS\rhl- cg- en- 7. Red Hat Configuration Guide: RAID, Samba, Printers, Linuxconf, PGP. CDROM: \RH- DOCS\rhl- gsg- en- 7. Getting Started Guide: Gnome, KDE, Web, e- mail, Audio, Video, Gimp, .. CDROM: \RH- DOCS\rhl- ig- x. Red Hat Linux x. 86 Installation Guide. CDROM: \RH- DOCS\rhl- rg- en- 7. Red Hat Reference Guide: CCVS (Credit Card Verification System). Kerberos, LDAP, Powertools. CDROM: \FAQS\.. - Frequently Asked Questions. CDROM: \HOWTOS\INDEX. How To documentation from the "Linux Documentation Project". The Red Hat 7. 1 release put all documents on a separate CD labeled "Documentation CD". CDROM: \doc\gsg\index. Red Hat Getting Started Guide. CDROM: \doc\install- guide\index. RH Installation Guide. CDROM: \doc\ref- guide\index. RH Reference Guide. Note: RH 6. 2 did NOT include the HOWTO section. See. http: //en. tldp. HOWTO/. All releases contain documentation on DEC/Alpha installations in. CDROM: \doc\alpha\. CDROM: \doc\rhinst\index. Install Guide. CDROM: \doc\rhgsg\index. Getting Started Guide. CDROM: \doc\rhref\index. Reference Guide. RH 6. Getting Started Guide'' in. CDROM: \doc\rhgsg\index. CDROM: \doc\rhmanual\manual\index. REDHAT manual. CDROM: \doc\HOWTO\.. RH 5. 2/6. 0/6. 1. CDROM: \FAQ\HTML\Index. RH 5. 2/6. 0/6. 1. MS/Windows Backup and Recovery Plan: (if something fails in dual boot installation). For those who will be creating a dual boot computer and wish to maintain. Backup important partitions. Create a DOS boot floppy to restore a ``Master Boot Record'' if. Create DOS/Windows recovery disks for DOS/Windows. For dual boot configurations). It would be wise to make a backup of anything important that. The Linux installation has the option of installing one of the operating. Lilo or GRUB. GRUB was introduced as the default Linux boot. Red Hat 7. 2. The boot loader allows one to boot one or more. In the case of Windows NT (or variants). Microsoft boot loader is used to launch the Linux boot loader which will. Linux. As a precaution, it would be. Master Boot Record. DOS recovery disk: From DOS create a floppy. C: \> FORMAT /U A: /S. C: \> COPY C: \DOS\FDISK. EXE A: \. C: \> COPY C: \DOS\FORMAT. COM A: \. C: \> COPY C: \DOS\MSD. EXE A: \. This creates a boot floppy with some rescue tools. To restore a Master Boot Record, boot the PC from the floppy and. A: \> FDISK /MBR C. Win 2. 00. 0/NT: (boot from CD and enter "Recovery Console"). Win XP: (boot from CD and enter "Recovery Console"). Explanation of MBR: The Master Boot Record is on a sector of. It is. separate. Upon booting, the system reads the MBR first. This. points the computer to the portion of the disk where the operating. OS is loaded from there. When running a. dual boot system, LILO (or Grub) in the MBR can point to more than one. Windows 9. 5 recovery diskette: To create a windows ``start- up''. Start'' + ``Settings'' + ``Control Panel'' +. Add/Remove Programs'' then select the ``Startup Disk'' tab. This. may require your Windows 9. CD- ROM. Red Hat re- install on an existing system: Save configuration info. Configuration files are held in the directory /etc/. Save a backup. or hard copy of the "conf" files you need to re- configure your system. The command ls - lrt will list files in a reverse time ordered fashion. The newer files are listed last and are the ones most likely changed. Backup or print file /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid to preserve the configuration information for up. See pitfall. I highly recommend that you choose "Custom Installation" mode and not Server. Workstation . Server and Workstation installation modes add pre- configured disk partitions. A. server- class installation does NOT install a GUI interface nor does it. X- windows. To install everything choose the "Custom". You can always turn off or ignore services and software you don't need. Potential Pitfall]: (RH 7. A server- class installation WILL erase all partitions both Linux and Non- Linux from every one of your computer's hard drives. This method will also. Lilo (or Grub) on the MBR. Not good for Windows NT dual boot). The "Automatic Partitioning" option (RH 7. MBR and re- partitioning all your drives. The "Manual" partition. Two manual partition tools are available. Disk Druid" - I use this one. The auto option creates two partitions (/boot and /). It is ideal for single user systems. A server or shared system may want. More on this later). Upgrades will be logged to the file /tmp/upgrade. Linux installation is fairly intuitive except managing the disk. The Linux CD- ROM is a boot disk, thus stick it in and. If this does. not work check your BIOS to see if your CD- ROM is in the list of boot. In my BIOS configuration I had to change the boot device default. A,C,SCSI to CDROM,C,A. After the installation was. I changed it back. If you cannot boot from the CD- ROM, see instructions in. Creating a Linux boot floppy for Linux Installation'' in. Most hardware is auto- detected during installation. The. user is queried for the rest. Potential Pitfall]: (RH 7. RAID disk configuration requires text mode installation. Graphical GUI. does NOT support RAID. Potential Pitfall]: (RH 6. If the installation program presents itself as a text based console. DOS like) interface instead of a graphical based. Disk Druid: This is the disk partition manager. IDE drives are referred to as hda for the first drive, hdb for the second etc .. IDE. uses separate ribbon cables for primary and secondary drives. The. partitions on each drive are referred numerically. The first partition. SCSI drives would be identified as sda, sdb .. Linux IDE naming conventions. Device. Description. Configuration/dev/hda. Primary) IDE controller. Master/dev/hdb. 1st (Primary) IDE controller. Slave/dev/hdc. 2nd (Secondary) IDE controller. Master/dev/hdd. 2nd (Secondary) IDE controller.
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