Installation guide

50 Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4.24. Preparing to Install
A screen preparing you for the installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux now appears.
For your reference, a complete log of your installation can be found in /root/install.log once
you reboot your system.
Warning
If, for some reason, you would rather not continue with the installation process, this is your last
opportunity to safely cancel the process and reboot your machine. Once you press the Next button,
partitions are written and packages are installed. If you wish to abort the installation, you should
reboot now before any existing information on any hard drive is rewritten.
To cancel this installation process, press your computer’s Reset button or use the [Control]-[Alt]-
[Delete] key combination to restart your machine.
4.25. Installing Packages
At this point there is nothing left for you to do until all the packages have been installed. How quickly
this happens depends on the number of packages you have selected and your computer’s speed.
4.26. Installation Complete
Congratulations! Your Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation is now complete!
The installation program prompts you to prepare your system for reboot. Remember to remove any
installation media if it is not ejected automatically upon reboot.
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:
• Press [Enter] — causes the default boot entry to be booted.
• Select a boot label, followed by [Enter] — causes the boot loader to boot the operating system
corresponding to the boot label.
• Do nothing — after the boot loader’s timeout period, (by default, five seconds) the boot loader
automatically boots the default boot entry.
Do whatever is appropriate to boot Red Hat Enterprise Linux. One or more screens of messages should
scroll by. Eventually, a login: prompt or a GUI login screen (if you installed the X Window System
and chose to start X automatically) appears.
The first time you start your Red Hat Enterprise Linux system in run level 5 (the graphical run level),
the Setup Agent is presented, which guides you through the Red Hat Enterprise Linux configuration.
Using this tool, you can set your system time and date, install software, register your machine with
Red Hat Network, and more. The Setup Agent lets you configure your environment at the beginning,
so that you can get started using your Red Hat Enterprise Linux system quickly.
For more information on using the Setup Agent, refer to the chapter titled Getting Started in the Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Step By Step Guide.
For information on registering your Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription, refer to
Section 4.27 Activate Your Subscription.