Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Contents Pass-Through Certification...............................................................................................4 Red Hat Linux Pass-Through Hardware Requirements......................................................................................................................4 Reseller Steps to Receive Pass-Thru OS Certification..........................................................................................
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Deleting a Partition.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................34 x86 and Intel® 64 Boot Loader Configuration .............................................................................................................................................
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Pass-Through Certification Pass-Through Certification refers to the ability for third-party systems to be granted the same certification status as models previously certified by Intel Corporation. Currently, Pass-Through Certification is only available to vendors who purchase Intel server boards and/or systems and Red Hat* Ready Business Partner, Advanced & Premier Program with Red Hat, Inc.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Hardware Components (Configuration 1) Quantity Item Version/Model Notes 1 Intel Server Board S5000PAL S5000PAL 1 Intel® Server Chassis SR1500 (1U) 2 Intel® Xeon® processors 8 Memory 16GB (8x2GB) Please refer to the Tested Memory List for Intel® Server Board S5000PAL at http://www.intel.com/support/m otherboards/server/s5000pal/s b/CS-022919.htm BIOS 66 S5000.86B.02.00.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 1 SAS 2 RAID 0 1 SAS 3 RAID 0 1 CD-ROM Installed I/O Module NIC I/O Embedded 7.0.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Quantity Item Version/Model Notes http://support.intel.com/sup port/motherboards/server/s b/CS-025416.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL (Configuration 3) Quantity Item Model/Version Notes 1 Intel Server Board S5000PAL S5000PAL 1 Intel® Server Chassis SR1500 (1U) 2 Intel® Xeon® processors Any Supported Please refer to the Qualified and Supported Processor List for Intel® Server Board S5000PAL at http://www.intel.com/support/m otherboards/server/sb/CS022346.
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Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Installation This section explains how to perform a Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation from the CD-ROM, using the graphical, mouse-based installation program. The Graphical Installation Program User Interface If you have used a graphical user interface (GUI) before, you are already familiar with this process; use your mouse to navigate the screens, click buttons, or enter text fields.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL These virtual consoles can be helpful if you encounter a problem while installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Messages displayed on the installation or system consoles can help pinpoint a problem. Refer to Table 5-1 for a listing of the virtual consoles, keystrokes used to switch to them, and their contents.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL The Text Mode Installation Program User Interface The Red Hat Enterprise Linux text mode installation program uses a screen-based interface that includes most of the on-screen widgets commonly found on graphical user interfaces. Figures 4-1, and Figure 4-2, illustrate the screens that appear during the installation process.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL The list of the most important widgets shown in Figure 4-1 and Figure 4-2: • Window — Windows (usually referred to as dialogs in this manual) appear on your screen throughout the installation process. At times, one window may overlay another; in these cases, you can only interact with the window on top. When you are finished in that window, it disappears, allowing you to continue working in the window underneath.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL [Enter]. To select an item with a checkbox, move the cursor to the checkbox and press [Space] to select an item. To deselect, press [Space] a second time. Pressing [F12] accepts the current values and proceeds to the next dialog; it is equivalent to pressing the OK button. Caution: Unless a dialog box is waiting for your input, do not press any keys during the installation process (doing so may result in unpredictable behavior).
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Tip: To change your BIOS settings on an x86 or Intel® 64 system, watch the instructions provided on your display when your computer first boots. A line of text appears, telling you which key to press to enter the BIOS settings. 3) Once you have entered your BIOS setup program, find the section where you can alter your boot sequence.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Note: Refer to Appendix A “Additional Boot Options” for additional boot options not covered in this section. 1) To perform a text mode installation, at the installation boot prompt, type: linux text 2) ISO images have an md5sum embedded in them.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 2) For text mode installations, use: linux text mem=128M With most computers, there is no need to pass this argument to the kernel. The kernel detects the amount of memory your system has in most cases. However, using this command is often helpful for testing purposes. For example, you can boot with less memory by passing a linux mem=64M or linux text mem=64M option to the kernel.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 2) The installation program then probes your system and attempts to identify your CD-ROM drive. It starts by looking for an IDE (also known as an ATAPI) CD-ROM drive. If found, continue to the next stage of the installation process (refer to the Language Selection section). Note: To abort the installation process at this time, reboot your machine and then eject the boot media.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Installing from a Hard Drive 1) The Select Partition screen applies only if you are installing from a disk partition (that is, if you selected Hard Drive in the Installation Method dialog). This dialog allows you to name the disk partition and directory from which you are installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 2) Enter the domain name or IP address of your NFS server. For example, if you are installing from a host named eastcoast in the domain example.com, enter eastcoast.example.com in the NFS Server field. 3) Next, enter the name of the exported directory. Figure 4-4 NFS Dialog Setup 4) If the NFS server is exporting a mirror of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation tree, enter the directory which contains the RedHat/ directory.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Installing via FTP The FTP dialog applies only if you are installing from an FTP server (if you selected FTP in the Installation Method dialog). This dialog allows you to identify the FTP server from which you are installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Figure 4-5.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 1) Enter the name or IP address of the HTTP site you are installing from, an d the name of the directory containing the RedHat/ installation files for your architecture. For example, if the HTTP site contains the directory /mirrors/redhat/arch/RedHat/, enter /mirrors/redhat/arch/ (where arch is replaced with the architecture type of your system, such as i386, ia64, ppc, or s390).
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Language Selection 1) Using your mouse, select a language to use for the installation (refer to Figure 4-7). 2) Selecting the appropriate language also helps target your time zone configuration later in the installation. The installation program tries to define the appropriate time zone based on what you specify on this screen. Figure 4-7, Language Selection 3) Once you have made your selection, click Next to continue.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Keyboard Configuration 1) Using your mouse, select the correct layout type (for example, U.S. English) for the keyboard you would prefer to use for the installation and as the system default (refer to Figure 4-8). 2) Once you have made your selection, click Next to continue. Figure 4-8. Keyboard Con?guration Tip: To change your keyboard layout type after you have completed the installation, use the Keyboard Configuration Tool.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Figure 4-9. Disk Partitioning Setup Warning: If you receive an error after the Disk Partitioning Setup phase of the installation saying something similar to “The partition table on device hda was unreadable. To create new partitions it must be initialized, causing the loss of ALL DATA on this drive.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Caution: If you select this option, all data on the selected hard drive(s) is removed by the installation program. Do not select this option if you have information that you want to keep on the hard drive(s) where you are installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 4) Click Next once you have made your selections to proceed. Partitioning Your System 1) If you chose automatic partitioning and did not select Review, skip ahead to the “Network Configuration” section. 2) If you chose automatic partitioning and selected Review, you can either accept the current partition settings (click Next), or modify the setup using Disk Druid, the manual partitioning tool.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 2) Above the display, you can review the Drive name (such as /dev/hda), the Geom (which shows the hard disk’s geometry and consists of three numbers representing the number of cylinders, heads, and sectors as reported by the hard disk), and the Model of the hard drive as detected by the installation program. Disk Druid’s Buttons These buttons control Disk Druid’s actions.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL To create an LVM logical volume, you must ?rst create partitions of type physical volume (LVM). Once you have created one or more physical volume (LVM) partitions, select LVM to create an LVM logical volume. Partition Fields Above the partition hierarchy are labels which present information about the partitions you are creating. The labels are defined as follows: • Device: This field displays the partition’s device name.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL - The amount of physical RAM is installed on the machine. - The version of the OS. • Swap should equal 2x physical RAM for up to 2 GB of physical RAM, and then 1x physical RAM for any amount above 2 GB, but never less than 32 MB. • Using this formula, a system with 2 GB of physical RAM would have 4 GB of swap, while one with 3 GB of physical RAM would have 5 GB of swap.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL • A /boot/ partition (100 MB) — the partition mounted on /boot/ contains the operating system kernel (which allows your system to boot Red Hat Enterprise Linux), along with files used during the bootstrap process. Due to the limitations of most PC BIOSes, creating a small partition to hold these files is a good idea. For most users, a 100 MB boot partition is sufficient.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Adding Partitions 1) To add a new partition, select the New button. A dialog box appears (refer to Figure 4-12). Note: You must dedicate at least one partition for this installation, and optionally more. Figure 4-12. Partitioning with Disk Druid on x86 and Intel® 64 Systems • Mount Point: Enter the partition’s mount point.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL • Force to be a primary partition: Select whether the partition you are creating should be one of the first four partitions on the hard drive. If unselected, the partition is created as a logical partition. Refer to Section D.1.3 Partitions within Partitions — An Overview of Extended Partitions, for more information. • OK: Select OK once you are satisfied with the settings and wish to create the partition.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Editing Partitions To edit a partition, select the Edit button or double-click on the existing partition. Note: If the partition already exists on your hard disk, you can only change the partition’s mount point. To make any other changes, you must delete the partition and recreate it. Deleting a Partition To delete a partition, highlight it in the Partitions section and click the Delete button. Confirm the deletion when prompted.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL (the mechanism for loading unsupported operating systems, such as DOS or Windows, by loading another boot loader). If you do not want to install GRUB as your boot loader, click Change boot loader, where you can choose not to install a boot loader at all.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Advanced Boot Loader Configuration Now that you have chosen which boot loader to install, you can also determine where you want the boot loader to be installed. You may install the boot loader in one of two places: • The master boot record (MBR) — This is the recommended place to install a boot loader, unless the MBR already starts another operating system loader, such as System Commander.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 2) The Force LBA32 (not normally required) option allows you to exceed the 1024 cylinder limit for the /boot/ partition. If you have a system which supports the LBA32 extension for booting operating systems above the 1024 cylinder limit, and you want to place your /boot/ partition above cylinder 1024, you should select this option.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL • Commercial boot loaders - You can load Linux using commercial boot loaders. For example, System Commander and Partition Magic are able to boot Linux (but still require GRUB to be installed in your Linux root partition). Note: Boot loaders such as LOADLIN and System Commander are considered to be third-party boot loaders and are not supported by Red Hat. SMP Motherboards and GRUB This section is specific to SMP motherboards only.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Network Configuration If you do not have a network device, this screen does not appear during your installation and you should advance to Firewall Configuration. Figure 4-14. Network Configuration 1) The installation program automatically detects any network devices you have and display them in the Network Devices list.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 2) Once you have selected a network device, click Edit. From the Edit Interface pop-up screen, you can choose to configure the IP address and Netmask of the device via DHCP (or manually if DHCP is not selected) and you can choose to activate the device at boot time. If you select Activate on boot, your network interface is started when you boot.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Firewall Configuration Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers firewall protection for enhanced system security. A firewall exists between your computer and the network, and determines which resources on your computer remote users on the network can access. A properly configured firewall can greatly increase the security of your system. Figure 4-16.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 3) Enabling these options allow the specified services to pass through the firewall. Note, these services may not be installed on the system by default. Make sure you choose to enable any options that you may need. • Remote Login (SSH) • Secure Shell (SSH) is a suite of tools for logging in to and executing commands on a remote machine. If you plan to use SSH tools to access your machine through a firewall, enable this option.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL • Disable — Select Disable if you do not want SELinux security controls enabled on this system. The Disabled setting turns enforcing off and does not set up the machine for the use of a security policy. • Warn — Select Warn to be notified of any denials. The Warn state assigns labels to data and programs, and logs them, but does not enforce any policies.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Caution: If you select only one language, you can only use that specified language after the installation is complete. Figure 4-17. 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 on your Red Hat Enterprise Linux system. Use the Reset button to cancel your selections.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Time Zone Configuration Set your time zone by selecting the city closest to your computer’s physical location. There are two ways for you to select your time zone: 1) Using your mouse, click on the interactive map to select a specific city (represented by a yellow dot). A red X appears indicating your selection. 2) You can also scroll through the list at the bottom of the screen to select your time zone.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Set 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 the administrator account used on Windows NT machines. The root account is used to install packages, upgrade RPMs, and perform most system maintenance. Logging in as root gives you complete control over your system.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 4) You should make the root password something you can remember, but not something that is easy for someone else to guess. Your name, your phone number, qwerty, password, root, 123456, and anteater are all examples of bad passwords. Good passwords mix numerals with upper and lower case letters and do not contain dictionary words: Aard387vark or 420BMttNT, for example. Remember that the password is case-sensitive.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 4) You can select package groups, which group components together according to function (for example, X Window System and Editors), individual packages, or a combination of the two.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 6) Once a package group has been selected, click on Details to view which packages are installed by default, and to add or remove optional packages from that group. Figure 4-21. Package Group Details Preparing to Install 1) A screen preparing you for the installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux now appears. 2) For your reference, a complete log of your installation can be found in /root/install.log once you reboot your system.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 3) After your computer’s normal power-up sequence has completed, the graphical boot loader prompt appears at which you can do any of the following things: a) Press [Enter] — causes the default boot entry to be booted. b) Select a boot label, followed by [Enter] — causes the boot loader to boot the operating system corresponding to the boot label.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Appendix A: Additional Boot Options This appendix discusses additional boot and kernel boot options available for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation program. To use any of the boot options presented here, type the command you wish to invoke at the installation boot: prompt.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL original display. Using the command xhost +remotehostname limits access to the remote display terminal and does not allow access from anyone or any system not specifically authorized for remote access. driverdisk: This command performs the same function as the dd command and also prompts you to use a driver diskette during the installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL nofb: This command disables frame buffer support and allows the installation program to run in text mode. This command may be necessary for accessibility with some screen reading hardware. nomce: This x86 boot command disables self-diagnosis checks performed on the CPU. The kernel enables selfdiagnosis on the CPU by default (called Machine Check Exception).
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL rescue: This command runs rescue mode. Refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Administration Guide for more information about rescue mode. resolution=: Tells the installation program which video mode to run. It accepts any standard resolution, such as 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, and so on. serial: This command turns on serial console support.
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