Installation guide

Introduction
Welcome to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation Guide .
HTML and PDF versions of the guides are available online at http://www.redhat.com/docs/.
Note
Although this manual reflects the most current information possible, read the Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Release Notes for information that may not have been avail-
able prior to the documentation being finalized. The Release Notes can be found
on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD #1, online at http://www.redhat.com/docs/, or
in the /usr/share/doc/redhat-release-notes-5<variant>/ directory after installa-
tion, where <variant> is Server, Client, or Desktop.
1. Architecture-specific Information
This manual is divided into different sections:
Sections One to Three are architecture specific, and give instructions on installing Red Hat En-
terprise Linux 5.0.0 with specific reference to 32- and 64-bit Intel® and AMD systems, IBM
POWER-based systems, and IBM System z architecture systems, respectively.
Section Four deals with a number of common tasks, including registering your system with Red
Hat Network, and generic information on Disk Partitioning.
Section Five deals with Basic System Recovery, and contains some architecture-specific in-
formation, as well as information that applies to all architectures.
Section Six contains information on advanced installation topics such as Kickstart, PXE, and
Diskless installations.
2. Document Conventions
In this manual, certain words are represented in different fonts, typefaces, sizes, and weights.
This highlighting is systematic; different words are represented in the same style to indicate their
inclusion in a specific category. The types of words that are represented this way include the fol-
lowing:
command
Linux commands (and other operating system commands, when used) are represented this
way. This style should indicate to you that you can type the word or phrase on the com-
mand line and press Enter to invoke a command. Sometimes a command contains words
that would be displayed in a different style on their own (such as file names). In these
cases, they are considered to be part of the command, so the entire phrase is displayed as
a command. For example:
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