Red Hat LINUX ADVANCED SERVER 2.1 Manual

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Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 The Official Red Hat Linux Advanced Server Installation Guide For the Itanium ® Processor ...

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Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1: For the Itanium ® Processor Copyright © 2002 by Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat, Inc. 1801 Varsity Drive Raleigh NC 27606-2072 USA Phone: +1 919 754 3700 Phone: 888 733 4281 Fax: +1 919 754 3701 PO Box 13588 Research Triang...

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Table of Contents Introduction......................................................................................................................................... v 1. Document Conventions............................................................

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3.18. Network Configuration .................................................................................................. 38 3.19. Firewall Configuration ............................................................................................

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Introduction Welcome to the Official Red Hat Linux Advanced Server Installation Guide. This guide contains useful information to assist you during the installation of Red Hat Linux Advanced Server. From fundamental concepts such as installation prep...

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vi Introduction text found on a GUI interface A title, word, or phrase found on a GUI interface screen or window will be shown in this style. When you see text shown in this style, it is being used to identify a particular GUI screen or an element on...

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Introduction vii Note Remember that Linux is case sensitive. In other words, a rose is not a ROSE is not a rOsE. Tip The directory /usr/share/doc contains additional documentation for packages installed on your system. Important If you modify the DHC...

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viii Introduction 2.1. We Need Feedback! If you spot a typo in the Official Red Hat Linux Advanced Server Installation Guide, or if you have thought of a way to make this manual better, we would love to hear from you! Please submit a report against ...

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Chapter 1. Steps to Get You Started Note Although this manual reflects the most current information possible, you should read the to Red Hat Linux Advanced Server Release Notes for information that may not have been available prior to our documentat...

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10 Chapter 1. Steps to Get You Started Hat Linux Advanced Server Documentation CD included with your official Red Hat Linux Advanced Server product. To find the manuals in both HTML and PDF formats online, go to: http://www.redhat.com/docs 1.1.2. R...

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Chapter 1. Steps to Get You Started 11 • Your computer must have enough unpartitioned 1 disk space for the installation of Red Hat Linux Advanced Server. • You must have one or more partitions that may be deleted, thereby freeing up enough disk s...

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12 Chapter 1. Steps to Get You Started Advanced Server Red Hat Linux Advanced Server includes technology and services appropriate for enterprise servers hosting mission critical applications. Ideal for high-availability and failover solutions, Advanc...

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Chapter 1. Steps to Get You Started 13 • Custom (minimum): 500 MB • Custom (choosing everything): 4.2 GB 1.4.2.1. What a Custom Installation Will Do As you might guess from the name, a custom installation puts the emphasis on flexibility. You ha...

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14 Chapter 1. Steps to Get You Started ...

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Chapter 2. Before You Begin the Installation Process 2.1. Installation Overview Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server on an Itanium system is different from installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server on an x86 machine. In general, the sequence of st...

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16 Chapter 2. Before You Begin the Installation Process 2. IDE hard drives on the primary IDE interface 3. IDE hard drives on the secondary IDE interface 4. SCSI hard drives on the SCSI interface 5. CD-ROM drives on the IDE interface 6. CD-ROM drives...

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Chapter 2. Before You Begin the Installation Process 17 2.2.3.1. Booting the Installation Program from the CD-ROM To boot from Red Hat Linux Advanced Server CD 1 follow these steps: 1. Remove all media except Red Hat Linux Advanced Server CD 1. 2. Fr...

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18 Chapter 2. Before You Begin the Installation Process 6. If you are not performing a CD-ROM install, you will need to choose a few basic options for your system and then you will need to select which installation method you would like to use. 7. Go...

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Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server This chapter explains how to install Red Hat Linux Advanced Server from the CD-ROM using the graphical, mouse-based installation program. The following topics are discussed: • Getting familiar wit...

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20 Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server Console Keystrokes Contents 5 [Ctrl]-[Alt]-[F5] other messages 7 [Ctrl]-[Alt]-[F7] X graphical display Table 3-1. Console, Keystrokes, and Contents Generally, there is no reason to leave the defa...

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Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 21 Figure 3-2. Installation Program Widgets as seen in Disk Druid Here is a list of the most important widgets shown in Figure 3-1, and Figure 3-2: • Window — windows (usually referred to as dia...

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22 Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server To "press" a button, position the cursor over the button (using [Tab], for example) and press [Space] or [Enter]. To select an item from a list of items, move the cursor to the item you...

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Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 23 3.4. Installing from CD-ROM To install Red Hat Linux Advanced Server from a CD-ROM, choose the CD-ROM option from the boot loader screen and select OK. When prompted, insert the Red Hat Linux Adv...

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24 Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server • c — second IDE controller, master • d — second IDE controller, slave If you have a third and/or fourth controller, continue assigning letters in alphabetical order, going from controlle...

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Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 25 Figure 3-3. NFS Setup Dialog Enter the fully-qualified domain name or IP address of your NFS server. For example, if you are in- stalling from a host named eastcoast in the domain redhat.com, en...

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26 Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server Figure 3-4. FTP Setup Dialog If everything has been specified properly, a message box appears indicating that base/hdlist is being retrieved. Next you will see the Welcome dialog. Tip You can al...

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Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 27 Figure 3-5. HTTP Setup Dialog If everything has been specified properly, a message box appears indicating that base/hdlist is being retrieved. Next you will see the Welcome dialog. 3.9. Welcome ...

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28 Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server Figure 3-6. Language Selection 3.11. Keyboard Configuration Choose the keyboard model that best fits your system (see Figure 3-7). If you cannot find an exact match, choose the best Generic ma...

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Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 29 Figure 3-7. Keyboard Configuration Tip To re-enable dead keys (assuming you chose to disable them during the installation), you must com- ment out the line disabling dead keys in the XF86Config-...

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30 Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server If your mouse is a USB mouse, the port will look similar to . If your mouse is a AT (Advanced Technology) mouse, the port will look similar to . If you cannot find a mouse that you are sure is c...

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Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 31 3.13. Install Options Choose the type of installation you would like to perform (see Figure 3-9). Red Hat Linux allows you to choose the installation type that best fits your needs. Your options...

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32 Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server Figure 3-10. Disk Partitioning Setup If you chose to manually partition using Disk Druid, refer to Section 3.16. If you chose to manually partition using parted, refer to Section 3.17. 3.15. Auto...

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Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 33 Figure 3-11. Automatic Partitioning Using your mouse, choose the hard drive(s) on which you want Red Hat Linux Advanced Server to be installed. If you have two or more hard drives, you can choose...

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34 Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server Figure 3-12. Partitioning with Disk Druid The partitioning tool used in Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 is Disk Druid. With the exception of certain esoteric situations, Disk Druid can handle t...

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Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 35 • Reset: Used to restore Disk Druid to its original state. All changes made will be lost if you Reset the partitions. • Make RAID: Make RAID can be used if you want to provide redundancy to a...

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36 Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 3.16.5. Adding Partitions To add a new partition, select the New button. A dialog box appears (see Figure 3-13). Note You must dedicate at least one partition to Red Hat Linux Advanced Server, an...

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Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 37 • Check for bad blocks: Checking for bad blocks can help prevent data loss by locating the bad blocks on a drive and making a list of them to prevent using them in the future. If you wish to ch...

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38 Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 3.16.7. Deleting a Partition To delete a partition, highlight it in the Partitions section and click the Delete button. You will be asked to confirm the deletion. Skip to Section 3.18 for furthe...

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Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 39 3.18. Network Configuration If you do not have a network device, you will not see this screen. Skip ahead to Section 3.19. If you have a network device and you have not already configured your ...

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40 Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server Tip Even if your computer is not part of a network, you can enter a hostname for your system. If you do not take this opportunity to enter a name, your system will be known as localhost. 3.19. Fi...

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Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 41 Note If you select a medium or high firewall to be setup during this installation, network authentication methods (NIS and LDAP) will not work. Medium If you choose Medium, your firewall will n...

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42 Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server SSH Secure SHell (SSH) is a suite of tools for logging into and executing commands on a remote machine. If you plan to use SSH tools to access your machine through a firewall, enable this option...

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Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 43 Figure 3-16. Language Support Selection To use more than one language on your system, choose specific languages to be installed or select all languages to have all available languages installed ...

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44 Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server Figure 3-17. Configuring the Time Zone On both tabs, you can select System Clock uses UTC. Please select this if you know that your system is set to UTC. Tip If you wish to change your time zone...

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Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 45 Figure 3-18. Account Creation 3.22.1. Setting the Root Password Setting up a root account and password is one of the most important steps during your installation. Your root account is similar to...

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46 Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server Note Do not use one of the example passwords offered in this manual. Using one of these passwords could be considered a security risk. Note The root user (also known as the superuser) has complet...

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Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 47 GNOME and KDE are both graphical desktop environments 3 that handle the overall look and feel of your system. You must choose one of these to have a default graphical setup, but you can also inst...

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48 Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server Figure 3-21. Selecting Individual Packages Using Tree view, you see a listing of package groups. When you expand this list (by double-clicking on the folder arrow beside a package group name) and...

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Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 49 The Unresolved Dependencies screen appears only if you are missing packages that are needed by the packages you have selected. At the bottom of the screen, under the list of missing packages, an ...

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50 Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server Figure 3-23. Video Card Setup Next, enter the amount of video memory installed on your video card. If you are not sure, please consult the documentation accompanying your video card. You will not...

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Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 51 Figure 3-24. Installing Packages 3.27. X Configuration — Monitor and Customization In order to complete X configuration, you must configure your monitor and customize your X settings. 3.27.1...

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52 Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server Figure 3-25. Monitor Selection Caution Do not select a monitor similar to your monitor unless you are certain that the monitor you are selecting does not exceed the capabilities of your monitor. ...

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Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 53 You can also choose whether you want to boot your system into a text or graphical environment once Red Hat Linux Advanced Server is installed. Unless you have special needs, booting into a graphi...

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54 Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 3.29.1. Specifying the Kernel If you need to boot a kernel that is not the default, select EFI Shell from the EFI Boot Manager list. If you just type elilo, the default kernel listed in the /boot...

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Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 55 (mounted as /boot/efi in Linux) and change to the EFI/redhat directory. For example, if fs0 is the system boot partition, type fs0: at the EFI Shell prompt. Type ls to make sure you are in the co...

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Appendix A. Additional Resources about Itanium and Linux Other reference materials, related to running Red Hat Linux on an Itanium system, are available on the Web. A few of the available resources are as follows: • http://www.linuxia64.org — The...

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58 Appendix A. Additional Resources about Itanium and Linux ...

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Appendix B. Troubleshooting Your Installation of Red Hat Linux Advanced Server This appendix discusses some common installation problems and their solutions. B.1. You are Unable to Boot Red Hat Linux Advanced Server B.1.1. Is Your System Displaying S...

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60 Appendix B. Troubleshooting Your Installation of Red Hat Linux Advanced Server Figure B-1. Mouse Not Detected You can choose to continue with the GUI installation or use the text mode installation, which does not require using a mouse. If you choo...

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Appendix B. Troubleshooting Your Installation of Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 61 B.3.3. Are You Seeing Python Errors? During some upgrades or installations of Red Hat Linux Advanced Server, the installation program (also known as Anaconda) may fail ...

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62 Appendix B. Troubleshooting Your Installation of Red Hat Linux Advanced Server B.4. Problems After Installation B.4.1. Problems with Server Installations and X If you performed a server installation and you are having trouble getting X to start, y...

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Appendix C. An Introduction to Disk Partitions Disk partitions are a standard part of the personal computer landscape and have been for quite some time. However, with many people purchasing computers featuring pre-installed operating systems, relativ...

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64 Appendix C. An Introduction to Disk Partitions Figure C-2. Disk Drive with a File System As Figure C-2, implies, the order imposed by a file system involves some trade-offs: • A small percentage of the drive’s available space is used to store...

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Appendix C. An Introduction to Disk Partitions 65 Figure C-3. Disk Drive with a Different File System Of course, writing a file system to disk is only the beginning. The goal of this process is to actually store and retrieve data. Let us take a look...

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66 Appendix C. An Introduction to Disk Partitions in one big chunk was such a great idea. This line of thinking was driven by several issues, some philosophical, some technical. On the philosophical side, above a certain size, it seemed that the addi...

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Appendix C. An Introduction to Disk Partitions 67 flag the partition as being associated with a particular operating system, to indicate that the partition contains a bootable operating system, or some combination of the three. Table C-1, contains a...

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68 Appendix C. An Introduction to Disk Partitions Figure C-6. >Disk Drive With Single Partition In many cases, there is only a single partition spanning the entire disk, essentially duplicating the method used before partitions. The partition tabl...

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Appendix C. An Introduction to Disk Partitions 69 Figure C-7. Disk Drive With Extended Partition As this figure implies, there is a difference between primary and logical partitions — there can only be four primary partitions, but there is no fix...

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70 Appendix C. An Introduction to Disk Partitions Figure C-8. Disk Drive with Unpartitioned Free Space If you think about it, an unused hard disk also falls into this category. The only difference is that all the space is not part of any defined par...

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Appendix C. An Introduction to Disk Partitions 71 plete backup is necessary. For your own sake, make two backups, use verification (if available in your backup software), and try to read data from your backup before you delete the partition. Caution...

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72 Appendix C. An Introduction to Disk Partitions Figure C-11. Disk Drive Being Compressed This step is crucial. Without it, the location of your data could prevent the partition from being resized to the extent desired. Note also that, for one reaso...

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Appendix C. An Introduction to Disk Partitions 73 Note The following information is specific to Intel-based computers only. As a convenience to Red Hat Linux Advanced Server users, the DOS fips utility is included on the Red Hat Linux/Itanium CD 1 i...

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74 Appendix C. An Introduction to Disk Partitions /dev/ This string is the name of the directory in which all device files reside. Since partitions reside on hard disks, and hard disks are devices, the files representing all possible partitions res...

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Appendix C. An Introduction to Disk Partitions 75 For example, if partition /dev/hda5 were mounted on /usr, that would mean that all files and directories under /usr would physically reside on /dev/hda5. So the file /usr/share/doc/FAQ/txt/Linux-FAQ...

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Index Symbols /boot/efi, 35 /root/install.log install log file location, 50 A adding partitions, 36 file system type, 37 ATAPI CD-ROM unrecognized, problems with, 23 automatic partitioning, 31, 32 B boot diskette creating from boot image file, 17...

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78 H hard disk basic concepts, 63 extended partitions, 68 file system formats, 63 partition introduction, 65 partition types, 67 partitioning of, 63 hardware compatibility, 10 hostname configuration, 39 how to use this manual, vii HTTP installation...

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79 P packages groups, 46 selecting, 46 individual, 47 installing, 46 selecting, 46 parted, 38 partition /boot/efi, 75 extended, 68 root, 75 swap, 75 partitioning, 33 automatic, 31, 32 basic concepts, 63 creating new, 36 file system type, 37 destruc...

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X X configuration, 49 X Window System, 49 Xconfigurator monitor setup, 51 video card setup, 49 ...