tailieunhanh - Installation

Installation is one of the three parts of the RHCE exam. To pass this part of the exam, you’ll need to know a lot more than just the basic GUI installation process for a single computer! Once you’ve studied the installation chapters (2, 3, and 5), you’ll be able to install Red Hat Linux in a number of ways: directly from the CD, using boot disks, managing special situations on laptop computers, accessing from networks, and using automated Kickstart-based tools. | RHCE RED HAT CERTIFIED ENGINEER 3 Installation CERTIFICATION OBJECTIVES Selecting an Installation Option Required Disk Space Filesystems The Installation Process Boot Loaders GRUB and LILO Creating Partitions Details Other Installation Sources Viewing Boot Time Information Postinstallation Validation Sample Installation Exercises Two-Minute Drill Q A Self Test 96 Chapter 3 Installation Installation is one of the three parts of the RHCE exam. To pass this part of the exam you ll need to know a lot more than just the basic GUI installation process for a single computer Once you ve studied the installation chapters 2 3 and 5 you ll be able to install Red Hat Linux in a number of ways directly from the CD using boot disks managing special situations on laptop computers accessing from networks and using automated Kickstart-based tools. While this chapter covers the basics the basics are important. You ll learn the nuances of different installation classes. Both fdisk and Disk Druid are useful tools for configuring your hard drives. Both GRUB and LILO are popular and flexible options as boot loaders. And if you re managing a LAN and don t want to spend all night inserting CDs and typing in commands at every computer you need to learn how to install Red Hat Linux in various network configurations. Many users download their version of Red Hat Linux directly from one of many FTP sites on the Internet. That is a common practice in a software world governed by the Linux General Public License. There are four basic installation routes that you can take but they all use the same packages and customization is possible in each case. All you need to get started is sufficient unformatted free disk space. The easiest way to get this is by adding a new disk drive to your system. The mechanics of adding a drive and changing your CMOS settings so your CD-ROM is a bootable device are beyond the scope of this book but neither operation is