Setup guide

6 Power on your system.
7 When the system starts to boot, press F10 to enter the BIOS and make sure the BIOS settings reflect the
recommended values in Setting Up Your Workstation Hardware on page 9. The BIOS must be correctly
configured before installing Linux.
NOTE If the keyboard is connected to the system through a KVM switch, you may have to press F10 repeatedly
or hold it down to enter the BIOS.
8 Save the correct BIOS settings and reboot the system.
9 When the system reboots, press F9 to enter the boot menu, and select Optical Drive to boot from the
Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation DVD.
10 When the Red Hat Linux installation screen appears, press F8 to display the Autodesk Red Hat Linux
installation menu.
11 At the boot prompt in the Red Hat Linux installation menu, type ifffsbc and then press Enter to
launch the Linux installation.
NOTE The system spends several minutes loading drivers.
12 If you replaced your system disk with an uninitialised disk, when prompted, confirm initialisation of
the disk.
13 The remainder of the installation process is automated.
When the installation completes, you are prompted with “Congratulations, the installation is complete”.
NOTE If the installation drops into text mode or to a blank screen just before completing, press CTRL+ALT+F6
to return to graphical mode. At this point, the installation should be finished, and you should see the
“Congratulations...” message and the Reboot button.
14 Eject the DVD and click Reboot to reboot the system.
NOTE After the system reboots, you may be prompted by the Kudzu hardware setup utility to set up new
hardware detected for your system. You can ignore these prompts and allow the utility's count-down to
expire since the hardware for the system is unchanged.
Linux Post-Installation Tasks
After booting into your new Linux installation, perform the following post-installation tasks:
■ Change the default root password to secure the system. The customized Autodesk installation sets the
password for the root account on your workstation to password.
■ Configure the time zone for your geographic location. The workstation is set to North American Eastern
Standard Time (EST) by default. If necessary, consult the Red Hat online documentation to configure
this setting.
■ Configure the network settings for your workstation to match the ones used in your facility. The Linux
installation sets a default IP address for your workstation.
Edit the following files to change network settings.
DescriptionNetworking Configuration File
Contains IP/host name pairs for host name resolution./etc/hosts
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