Installation guide

1.7. Disk Partitions and Mount Points ...............................................232
1.8. How Many Partitions? ...............................................................233
V. Basic System Recovery ......................................................................................234
26. Basic System Recovery .............................................................................235
1. Common Problems .............................................................................235
1.1. Unable to Boot into Red Hat Enterprise Linux .............................235
1.2. Hardware/Software Problems ....................................................235
1.3. Root Password ........................................................................235
2. Booting into Rescue Mode ...................................................................236
2.1. Reinstalling the Boot Loader .....................................................238
3. Booting into Single-User Mode .............................................................238
4. Booting into Emergency Mode .............................................................239
27. Rescue Mode on POWER Systems ............................................................240
1. Special Considerations for Accessing the SCSI Utilities from Rescue Mode
...............................................................................................................240
VI. Advanced Installation and Deployment ................................................................242
28. Kickstart Installations .................................................................................243
1. What are Kickstart Installations? ..........................................................243
2. How Do You Perform a Kickstart Installation? .......................................243
3. Creating the Kickstart File ....................................................................243
4. Kickstart Options .................................................................................244
4.1. Advanced Partitioning Example .................................................265
5. Package Selection ..............................................................................265
6. Pre-installation Script ..........................................................................266
6.1. Example ..................................................................................267
7. Post-installation Script .........................................................................268
7.1. Examples ................................................................................269
8. Making the Kickstart File Available .......................................................269
8.1. Creating Kickstart Boot Media ...................................................269
8.2. Making the Kickstart File Available on the Network .....................270
9. Making the Installation Tree Available ..................................................271
10. Starting a Kickstart Installation ...........................................................271
29. Kickstart Configurator ................................................................................277
1. Basic Configuration .............................................................................277
2. Installation Method ..............................................................................278
3. Boot Loader Options ...........................................................................279
4. Partition Information ............................................................................281
4.1. Creating Partitions ....................................................................282
5. Network Configuration .........................................................................285
6. Authentication .....................................................................................286
7. Firewall Configuration ..........................................................................287
7.1. SELinux Configuration ..............................................................288
8. Display Configuration ..........................................................................289
8.1. General ...................................................................................289
8.2. Video Card ..............................................................................290
8.3. Monitor ....................................................................................290
9. Package Selection ..............................................................................291
10. Pre-Installation Script ........................................................................292
11. Post-Installation Script .......................................................................294
11.1. Chroot Environment ................................................................295
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