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| 1 New Features Of Red Hat Linux 5.0 |
| 1.1 Installation-Related Enhancements |
| | 1.1.1 Automatic Probing of PCI devices |
| | 1.1.2 Expert Installation Mode |
| | 1.1.3 Kickstart Installation Mode |
| | 1.1.4 Configuring Partitions and Mount Points |
| | 1.1.5 Configuring Services to Run at Boot Time |
| | 1.1.6 Enhanced XFree86 Configuration |
| 1.2 New User-Mode Tools |
| | 1.2.1 User Information Tool |
| | 1.2.2 User Password Tool |
| | 1.2.3 Filesystem Mount Tool |
| | 1.2.4 Network Device Tool |
| 1.3 System Administration-Related Enhancements |
| | 1.3.1 Glibc-Based System |
| | 1.3.2 Improved Shadow Utilities |
| | 1.3.3 New Initscript Utility |
| | 1.3.4 New Backup Script |
| | 1.3.5 Improved network configuration utility |
| | 1.3.6 New Diskette Group |
| | 1.3.7 Anti-spam changes to sendmail |
| | | 1.3.7.1 Overview |
| | | 1.3.7.2 ip_allow |
| | | 1.3.7.3 name_allow |
| | | 1.3.7.4 relay_allow |
| | | 1.3.7.5 deny |
| 1.4 Miscellaneous New Features |
| | 1.4.1 Modular Sound Drivers |
| | | 1.4.1.1 Supported Sound Cards |
| | 1.4.2 Sound Card Configuration Tool |
| | 1.4.3 Window Manager Enhancements |
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| 2 Before You Begin |
| 2.1 Getting the Right Red Hat Linux Components |
| | 2.1.1 Contents of the Red Hat Linux Boxed Set |
| | | 2.1.1.1 Installation Guide |
| | | 2.1.1.2 CDs 1 and 2 |
| | | 2.1.1.3 Boot and Supplemental Diskettes |
| | | 2.1.1.4 License and Registration card |
| | | 2.1.1.5 Registration Sticker |
| | 2.1.2 Missing Something? |
| | 2.1.3 No Boxed Set? No Problem! |
| | 2.1.4 Checking for Updated Diskette Images |
| 2.2 Things You Should Know |
| | 2.2.1 Basic Hardware Configuration |
| | 2.2.2 Video Configuration |
| | 2.2.3 Network-related Information |
| 2.3 Installation Methods |
| | 2.3.1 PCMCIA Support During the Installation |
| | 2.3.2 Installing From a CD-ROM |
| | | 2.3.2.1 How To Do It |
| | 2.3.3 Installing From an FTP Site |
| | | 2.3.3.1 How To Do It |
| | 2.3.4 Installing From an NFS Server |
| | | 2.3.4.1 How To Do It |
| | 2.3.5 Installing From a Hard Drive |
| | | 2.3.5.1 How To Do It |
| 2.4 Disk Partitions |
| | 2.4.1 Repartitioning Strategies |
| | | 2.4.1.1 Using Unpartitioned Free Space |
| | | 2.4.1.2 Using An Unused Partition |
| | | 2.4.1.3 Using Free Space From An Active Partition |
| | 2.4.2 Disk Partitions and Other Operating Systems |
| | 2.4.3 One Last Wrinkle: Using LILO |
| | | 2.4.3.1 BIOS-Related Limitations Impacting LILO |
| | 2.4.4 How Many Partitions? |
| 2.5 Getting Documentation |
| 2.6 A Note About Kernel Drivers |
| 2.7 One Last Note... |
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| 3 Starting the Installation |
| 3.1 The Installation Program User Interface |
| | 3.1.1 Using the Keyboard to Navigate |
| | 3.1.2 A Note About Virtual Consoles |
| 3.2 Starting the Installation Program |
| | 3.2.1 Booting the Installation Program |
| | | | 3.2.1.0.1 Installing Without Using a Boot Diskette |
| 3.3 Beginning the Installation |
| | 3.3.1 Selecting a Keyboard Type |
| | 3.3.2 PCMCIA Support |
| 3.4 Selecting an Installation Method |
| | 3.4.1 Installing From CD-ROM |
| | 3.4.2 Installing Over the Network via NFS or FTP |
| | 3.4.3 Installing via FTP |
| | 3.4.4 Installing via NFS |
| | 3.4.5 Network Driver Configuration |
| | 3.4.6 Configuring TCP/IP Networking |
| | 3.4.7 NFS Server Information |
| | 3.4.8 Installing From a Hard Drive |
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| 4 Continuing the Installation |
| 4.1 Upgrading or Installing |
| | 4.1.1 Installing |
| | 4.1.2 Upgrading |
| 4.2 SCSI Support |
| 4.3 Creating Partitions for Red Hat Linux |
| | 4.3.1 Using Disk Druid |
| | | 4.3.1.1 The ``Current Disk Partitions'' Section |
| | | | 4.3.1.1.1 Another Type of Partition |
| | | 4.3.1.2 The ``Drive Summaries'' Section |
| | | 4.3.1.3 Disk Druid's Buttons |
| | | 4.3.1.4 Adding a Partition |
| | | | 4.3.1.4.1 Problems When Adding a Partition |
| | | 4.3.1.5 Deleting a Partition |
| | | 4.3.1.6 Editing a Partition |
| | | 4.3.1.7 Adding an NFS Mount |
| | | 4.3.1.8 Starting Over |
| | | 4.3.1.9 Canceling |
| | | 4.3.1.10 When You're Finished... |
| | 4.3.2 Using fdisk |
| | | 4.3.2.1 An Overview of fdisk |
| | | 4.3.2.2 Numbering Partitions |
| | | 4.3.2.3 Changing the Partition Table |
| | 4.3.3 Filesystem Configuration |
| | | 4.3.3.1 Selecting the Root Partition |
| | | 4.3.3.2 Other Partitions |
| 4.4 Initializing Swap Space |
| 4.5 Formatting Partitions |
| 4.6 Selecting and Installing Packages |
| | 4.6.1 Selecting Components |
| | 4.6.2 Selecting Individual Packages |
| | 4.6.3 Package Dependencies |
| | 4.6.4 Package Installation |
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| 5 Finishing the Installation |
| 5.1 Configuring a Mouse |
| 5.2 Configuring X Windows |
| | 5.2.1 Configuring the Metro-X Server |
| | 5.2.2 Configuring an XFree86 Server |
| 5.3 Configuring Networking |
| | 5.3.1 Network Configuration Dialogs |
| 5.4 Configuring the Clock |
| 5.5 Selecting Services for Start on Reboot |
| 5.6 Configuring a Printer |
| | 5.6.1 Locally Attached Printers |
| | 5.6.2 Remote lpd Printers |
| | 5.6.3 LAN Manager Printers |
| | 5.6.4 Finalizing Printer Setup |
| 5.7 Setting a Root Password |
| 5.8 Installing LILO |
| | 5.8.1 Adding Options to the LILO Boot Command Line |
| | 5.8.2 Alternatives to LILO |
| 5.9 Finishing Up... |
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| 6 Post Installation Configuration |
| 6.1 Building a Custom Kernel |
| | 6.1.1 Building a modularized kernel |
| | 6.1.2 Making an initrd image |
| | 6.1.3 Building a monolithic kernel |
| 6.2 X Window Configuration with XFree86 |
| | 6.2.1 The X Server |
| | 6.2.2 Xconfigurator |
| | | 6.2.2.1 Selecting your Server |
| | | 6.2.2.2 Finishing Up |
| 6.3 X Window Configuration with Metro-X |
| | 6.3.1 System Requirements |
| | 6.3.2 configX.curses |
| | | 6.3.2.1 Graphics Card |
| | | 6.3.2.2 Mouse |
| | | 6.3.2.3 Exiting |
| | 6.3.3 configX |
| | | 6.3.3.1 Start-up |
| | | 6.3.3.2 Special Keys |
| | | 6.3.3.3 Mouse configuration |
| | | 6.3.3.4 Keyboard configuration |
| | | 6.3.3.5 Monitor configuration |
| | | 6.3.3.6 Screen Saver |
| | | 6.3.3.7 Graphics Card Configuration |
| | | 6.3.3.8 Colors |
| | | 6.3.3.9 Virtual Resolution |
| | | 6.3.3.10 Physical Resolution |
| | | 6.3.3.11 Multiple-Screen Configuration |
| | | 6.3.3.12 Adding a Screen |
| | | 6.3.3.13 Deleting a Screen |
| | | 6.3.3.14 Screen Layout |
| | | 6.3.3.15 Font Path |
| | | 6.3.3.16 Save and Exit |
| | | 6.3.3.17 Quit Without Saving |
| 6.4 Mouse configuration |
| 6.5 Sendmail |
| 6.6 Controlling Access to Services |
| 6.7 Anonymous FTP |
| 6.8 World Wide Web |
| | 6.8.1 World Wide Web Browsers |
| | 6.8.2 World Wide Web Server |
| 6.9 NFS Configuration |
| | 6.9.1 Mounting NFS Filesystems |
| | 6.9.2 Exporting NFS Filesystems |
| 6.10 Running Programs at Boot Time |
| 6.11 Color-ls Setup |
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| 7 Finding Documentation |
| 7.1 On Line Help |
| | 7.1.1 Man Pages |
| | 7.1.2 Package Documentation |
| | 7.1.3 HOWTOs and FAQs |
| | 7.1.4 The ``locate'' Command |
| | 7.1.5 ``info'' Pages |
| 7.2 Help from the Internet Community |
| | 7.2.1 Red Hat Mailing Lists |
| | 7.2.2 USENET Newsgroups |
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| 8 Package Management with RPM |
| 8.1 RPM Design Goals |
| 8.2 Using RPM |
| | 8.2.1 Installing |
| | | 8.2.1.1 Package Already Installed |
| | | 8.2.1.2 Conflicting Files |
| | | 8.2.1.3 Unresolved Dependency |
| | 8.2.2 Uninstalling |
| | 8.2.3 Upgrading |
| | 8.2.4 Querying |
| | 8.2.5 Verifying |
| 8.3 Impressing Your Friends with RPM |
| 8.4 Other RPM Resources |
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| 9 Control Panel |
| 9.1 User and Group Configuration |
| | 9.1.1 Adding or Editing a User |
| | 9.1.2 Removing a User |
| | | 9.1.2.1 Deactivating a User |
| | 9.1.3 Creating a New Group |
| | 9.1.4 Editing an Existing Group |
| 9.2 File System Configuration |
| | 9.2.1 Adding NFS Mounts |
| 9.3 Printer Configuration |
| 9.4 Network Configuration |
| | 9.4.1 Managing Names |
| | 9.4.2 Managing Hosts |
| | 9.4.3 Adding a Networking Interface |
| | | 9.4.3.1 PPP Interface |
| | | 9.4.3.2 SLIP Interface |
| | | 9.4.3.3 PLIP Interface |
| | | 9.4.3.4 Ethernet, Arcnet, Token Ring and Pocket Adaptor Interfaces |
| | 9.4.4 Managing Routes |
| 9.5 Time and Date |
| 9.6 Kernel Daemon Configuration |
| | 9.6.1 Changing Module Options |
| | 9.6.2 Changing Modules |
| | 9.6.3 Adding Modules |
| | 9.6.4 Restarting Kerneld |
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| 10 Glint |
| 10.1 Starting glint |
| 10.2 The Package Display |
| | 10.2.1 Context Sensitive Menus |
| | 10.2.2 Selecting Packages |
| | 10.2.3 Viewing Available Packages |
| 10.3 Configuration |
| 10.4 Package Manipulation |
| | 10.4.1 Querying Packages |
| | 10.4.2 Verifying Packages |
| | 10.4.3 Installing New Packages |
| | | 10.4.3.1 Upgrading Packages |
| | 10.4.4 Uninstalling Packages |
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| 11 System Administration |
| 11.1 Filesystem Structure |
| | 11.1.1 Overview of the FSSTND |
| | | 11.1.1.1 The /etc Directory |
| | | 11.1.1.2 The /lib Directory |
| | | 11.1.1.3 The /sbin Directory |
| | | 11.1.1.4 The /usr Directory |
| | | 11.1.1.5 The /usr/local Directory |
| | | 11.1.1.6 The /var directory |
| | 11.1.2 /usr/local in Red Hat Linux |
| 11.2 Special Red Hat File Locations |
| 11.3 Users, Groups and User-Private Groups |
| | 11.3.1 Standard Users |
| | 11.3.2 Standard Groups |
| | 11.3.3 User Private Groups |
| | | 11.3.3.1 User Private Group Rationale |
| 11.4 User Authentication with PAM |
| | 11.4.1 Modules |
| | 11.4.2 Services |
| | 11.4.3 The Configuration Files |
| | 11.4.4 Shadow Passwords |
| | 11.4.5 More Information |
| 11.5 The Boot Process, Init, and Shutdown |
| | 11.5.1 System V Init |
| | 11.5.2 Init Runlevels |
| | 11.5.3 Shutting Down |
| 11.6 Rescue Modes |
| | 11.6.1 Through LILO |
| | 11.6.2 Emergency Boot Diskettes |
| | | 11.6.2.1 A Handy Trick |
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| A Getting Technical Support |
| A.1 An Overview of Our Support Policy |
| A.2 Getting Support |
| | A.2.1 Registration |
| | | A.2.1.1 Registering via the Web |
| | | A.2.1.2 Registering via Email |
| | | A.2.1.3 Registering via Fax or Snail Mail |
| | A.2.2 Support Questions |
| | | A.2.2.1 How to Send Them |
| | | A.2.2.2 Where to Send Them |
| A.3 Support FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) |
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| B Making Installation Diskettes |
| B.1 Making a Diskette Under MS-DOS |
| B.2 Making a Diskette Under a Linux-like O/S |
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| C Information Specific to Red Hat Linux/SPARC |
| C.1 Supported Hardware |
| C.2 Installation Overview |
| C.3 Console Commands |
| C.4 Ramdisk-based Installation Criteria |
| | C.4.1 Preparing to Use an NFS-Mounted Root |
| C.5 Choosing a Boot Method |
| | C.5.1 Booting From Diskette |
| | | C.5.1.1 Diskette Boot Commands |
| | C.5.2 Booting From CD-ROM |
| | C.5.3 Booting From the Network |
| | | | C.5.3.0.1 Setting up RARP |
| | | | C.5.3.0.2 TFTP Server Setup |
| | | C.5.3.1 Network Boot Commands |
| C.6 Choosing an Installation Method |
| | C.6.1 CD-ROM Installation |
| | C.6.2 FTP Installation |
| | C.6.3 NFS Installation |
| | | C.6.3.1 Hard Disk Installation |
| C.7 Installation Using a Serial Terminal |
| C.8 Installation: Selecting System Components |
| C.9 SILO Configuration |
| C.10 Partitioning |
| | C.10.1 Swap Partitions and Red Hat Linux/SPARC |
| C.11 X Windows |
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| D Information specific to Red Hat Linux/Alpha |
| D.1 Introduction |
| D.2 Supported Hardware |
| D.3 Installation Overview |
| D.4 Choosing Diskette Images |
| | | | D.4.0.0.1 Creating a MILO Diskette |
| | | | D.4.0.0.2 Creating a Boot Diskette |
| | | | D.4.0.0.3 Creating a Ramdisk Diskette |
| D.5 Installing |
| | D.5.1 Booting the MILO Diskette |
| | D.5.2 Booting the Kernel Diskette |
| | D.5.3 Starting the Installation |
| | D.5.4 Issues Specific to Red Hat Linux/Alpha |
| | | D.5.4.1 Disk Partitioning |
| | | D.5.4.2 Creating a MILO Partition |
| | | D.5.4.3 XFree86 and TGA |
| | D.5.5 Finishing Up |
| | | D.5.5.1 Configuring MILO |
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| E Alpha Miniloader Howto |
| E.1 Introduction |
| | E.1.1 Copyright |
| | E.1.2 New Versions of this Document |
| E.2 What is MILO? |
| E.3 Pre-Built Standard MILO Images. |
| E.4 How To Build MILO |
| E.5 How To Load MILO |
| | E.5.1 Loading MILO from the Windows NT ARC firmware |
| | E.5.2 Loading MILO from the Windows NT AlphaBIOS |
| | E.5.3 Loading MILO from the Evaluation Board Debug Monitor |
| | E.5.4 Loading MILO from a Failsafe Boot Block Floppy |
| | E.5.5 Loading MILO from Flash |
| | E.5.6 Loading MILO from the SRM Console |
| | E.5.7 System Specific Information |
| | | E.5.7.1 AxpPCI33 (Noname) |
| | | E.5.7.2 AlphaPC64 (Cabriolet) |
| | | E.5.7.3 EB66+ |
| | | E.5.7.4 EB64+/Aspen Alpine |
| | | E.5.7.5 Universal Desktop Box (Multia) |
| | | E.5.7.6 EB164 |
| | | E.5.7.7 PC164 |
| | | E.5.7.8 XL266 |
| | | E.5.7.9 Platform2000 |
| E.6 MILO's User Interface |
| | E.6.1 The ''help'' Command |
| | E.6.2 Booting Linux |
| | E.6.3 Rebooting Linux |
| | E.6.4 The ''bootopt'' command |
| E.7 Running the Flash Management Utility |
| | E.7.1 The ''help'' command |
| | E.7.2 The ''list'' command |
| | E.7.3 The ''program'' command |
| | E.7.4 The ''environment'' command |
| | E.7.5 The ''bootopt'' command |
| | E.7.6 The ''quit'' command |
| E.8 Restrictions. |
| E.9 Problem Solving. |
| E.10 Acknowledgements. |
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| F General Parameters |
| F.1 CD-ROM parameters |
| F.2 SCSI parameters |
| F.3 Ethernet parameters |
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| G Metro X |
| G.1 Special Features |
| | G.1.1 Hot-Key Exit |
| | G.1.2 Hot-Key Resolution Switching |
| | G.1.3 Hardware Panning |
| | G.1.4 Multiple Screens |
| | | G.1.4.1 Supported Cards |
| | G.1.5 International Keyboards |
| G.2 Metro X Configuration File |
| | G.2.1 Warning |
| | G.2.2 Xconfig |
| | G.2.3 Keywords |
| | | G.2.3.1 Options Set In Configuration Utility |
| | | G.2.3.2 Options Not Set in Configuration Utility |
| | G.2.4 Modes |
| | | G.2.4.1 Adjusting the Image Position |
| | | G.2.4.2 Extensions |
| | | G.2.4.3 Special Notes |
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| H Red Hat Linux Frequently Asked Questions |
| H.1 Introduction |
| H.2 General Questions |
| | H.2.1 Where can I get information on Red Hat Linux? |
| | H.2.2 How Can I Get Red Hat Linux? |
| | H.2.3 The Red Hat FTP site is slow. Are there mirrors? |
| | H.2.4 How do I order from Red Hat Software? |
| | H.2.5 How do I contact Red Hat Software? |
| | H.2.6 How do I get new updates to Red Hat as they happen? |
| | H.2.7 What do I do if I have media (manual or CD) problems? |
| | H.2.8 What's the quickest and best way to get support for Red Hat? |
| | H.2.9 How do I report a bug? |
| | H.2.10 What versions of Red Hat Linux are there? |
| | H.2.11 What hardware does Red Hat Linux support? |
| | H.2.12 Why won't my Adaptec (274x, 284x) work? |
| | H.2.13 What applications are there for Red Hat Linux? |
| | H.2.14 Does Red Hat Linux include source code? |
| | H.2.15 Does Red Hat Linux support UMSDOS installs? |
| H.3 Installation Questions |
| | H.3.1 How do I get my IDE CD-ROM on my SB16 to work? |
| | H.3.2 How do I run the install program again? |
| | H.3.3 Why am I missing some programs? |
| | H.3.4 How do I mount my CD-ROM? |
| | H.3.5 Why does Linux only see part of my RAM? |
| | H.3.6 How do I install to my DOS partition? |
| | H.3.7 How do I use the NYS/NIS system that comes with RedHat? |
| | H.3.8 Why can't I get to Unixware now that I've installed Linux? |
| | H.3.9 Why does my Diamond video card do odd things under X Windows? |
| | H.3.10 Where can I find an list of known problems? |
| | H.3.11 I installed Metro-X, now how do I use it? |
| H.4 Using Red Hat Linux |
| | H.4.1 Why doesn't the xmh shipped with Red Hat work properly? |
| H.5 Copyright Notice |
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| I Red Hat and Freely Distributable Software. |
| | I.0.1 Red Hat History |
| I.1 The Free Software Model |
| I.2 The Evolution of ``Free Software'' |
| I.3 The GNU Public License |
| I.4 Will Linux Replace Commercial OSes? |
| I.5 Red Hat Software, Inc.'s Role in Linux Development |
| I.6 Further Reading |
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| J Licenses |
| J.1 The BSD Copyright |
| J.2 X Copyright |
| J.3 Gnu Public License |
| | J.3.1 Preamble |
| | J.3.2 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE |
| | | J.3.2.1 0 |
| | | J.3.2.2 1 |
| | | J.3.2.3 2 |
| | | J.3.2.4 3 |
| | | J.3.2.5 4 |
| | | J.3.2.6 5 |
| | | J.3.2.7 6 |
| | | J.3.2.8 7 |
| | | J.3.2.9 8 |
| | | J.3.2.10 9 |
| | | J.3.2.11 10 |
| | | J.3.2.12 11 |
| | J.3.3 Appendix |
