Created by Leslie Chong, April 10, 2003
1-Install Red Hat from the distribution CDs using your bootable CD-ROM drive.
2-It is recommended that you connect your PC to a network point as you install, so that the network card can be properly detected and configured.
3-You can load Red Hat in various ways. Any of these is acceptable:
(a)-Red Hat on single hard drive alone,
(b)-Red Hat multi-booting with DOS or any Windows O.S. with everything on a single hard drive, or with Red Hat on a second hard drive.
4-For Installation Type, choose Server or custom to get better experience.
5-Disk Partitioning Setup: You have a choice of Automatic or Manual partitioning.
(a)-Beware if you select Server and Automatic Partitioning, Red Hat install will go ahead and override your existing partitions, and re-partition the hard drive in a specific default manner.
(b)-I recommend you to do a Manual partitioning with Disk Druid to get the experience. With Disk Druid, you can choose to install Red Hat to the location (whichever hard drive) of your choice. If you pick this option, you need to create at least 2 partitions yourself:
The / partition, type ext3 (native Linux file format), and
swap partition ( 500MB – 1GB, smaller if you are short of disk space)
6-Choose to use GRUB as the boot loader. If you intend to multi-boot with Windows, put GRUB on the first sector of the Linux booting partition.
7-Network configuration:
Hostname: wbc10x
IP addres: 192.168.0.x
where x = 1, 2, 3, … (1 for Beng, 2 for Charlene, 3 for Joe, … )
8-No firewall, and set trusting for your NIC (eth0) for all protocols.
9-No additional language support, and set the Location.
10-Root password: wbc10x where x is your designated number.
11-Package Group Selection:
Desktops: Check XWINDOW, GNOME, KDE
Applications: Check Editors, Graphical Internet
Servers:
All: Server Configuration Tools
wbc101: Mail Server, DNS Server, Network Servers – DHCP
wbc102: Windows File Server, Web Server, FTP Server
wbc103: Windows File Server, Web Server, FTP Server
Development: Check System Administration Tools (check SMB), Printing Support
Server
12-Package installation starts and is going to take about half an a hour. (Have coffee while you stare at the screen.) Choose to create a Boot Disk. At some point, install will ask for the second CD.
13-Somewhat after this, you will be asked to configure the Graphical Interface (X).
Usually your video card is correctly detected. Choose it, and the monitor, and
set the colour depth and screen resolution.
14-Select Graphical login type.
15-After reboot, respond to the Setup Agent to complete the installation.
Please check the following before Boot Camp:
A-Check that your NIC does not have a problem:
You can login as root, and go to a terminal (one way to do this – Main Menu, Run
Program … > gnome-terminal) and type:
#ifconfig
If you encounter problems, try activating the card:
#ifup eth0
and then
#ifconfig
You can ping if you have other machines on the same subnet:
#ping –c5 192.168.0.x
(whatever the IP address).
B-Check that your CD-ROM drive can automount in Red Hat Linux:
Insert one of your distribution CDs, and it should mount automatically and display its contents. Also verify by running a terminal and:
#cd /mnt/cdrom
#ls
You should see the contents of the CD.