Installation guide

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 com-

puter's speed.

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 sys-

tem corresponding to the boot label.

• Do nothing — after the boot loader's timeout period, (by default, five seconds) the boot load-

er automatically boots the default boot entry.

Do whatever is appropriate to boot Red Hat Enterprise Linux. One or more screens of mes-

sages 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 envir-

onment at the beginning, so that you can get started using your Red Hat Enterprise Linux sys-

tem quickly.

For information on registering your Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription, refer to Chapter 24,

Activate Your Subscription.

27. Itanium Systems — Booting Your Ma-

chine and Post-Installation Setup

This section describes how to boot your Itanium into Red Hat Enterprise Linux and how to set

your EFI console variables so that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is automatically booted when the

machine is powered on.

After you reboot your system at the end of the installation program, type the following command

to boot into Red Hat Enterprise Linux:

elilo

26. Installation Complete