System information

Chapter 3. Installation of Red Hat Linux 7.3 and IBM Director Agent 35
– Utilities
– Software Development
– Kernel Source
15.After the system is rebooted, log in as root.
16.If X11 is installed, edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:
a. Add
Section “ServerFlags”
AllowMouseOpenFail
EndSecion
to the top of the file
b. Save and exit.
17.The diskette drive is connected to the SCSI bus. It is configured to take the last ID on the
SCSI bus. Since the blade server we are using has no SCSI hard drives, the diskette drive
resides on /dev/sda. So we perform these steps to make the diskette drive available.
a. Edit /etc/fstab and add
/dev/sda/mnt/floppyautonoauto,auto0 0
after all hard drive entries.
b. Make the /mnt/floppy directory by running mkdir /mnt/floppy
c. Mount the drive by running mount /dev/sda /mnt/floppy
18.Make a boot disk by running mkbootdisk and following the prompts.
19.Update the Ethernet drivers by editing /etc/modules so the entries for eth0 and eth1 look
like what is shown in Example 3-1.
Example 3-1 /etc/modules showing correct Ethernet drivers
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 bcm5700
alias eth1 bcm5700
3.2.3 Applying updates and installing the latest kernel
In this section, we will apply updates and install the latest kernel to Red Hat. Perform the
following steps:
1. Log on to the system as root.
2. Make a directory to store the updates in a file system which has at least 600 MB of free
space. We created /usr/updates to store the updates.
3. Change to the updates directory.
4. Create kernels and noInstall directories.
5. Download all the current Red Hat 7.3 updates:
a. Anonymous ftp to updates.redhat.com
b. cd to 7.3/en/os
c. Download all the files in the i386, i686, and noarch directories
6. Move all the kernel files into the kernels directory by typing: mv kernel-* kernels