Installation guide

Chapter 1. Getting Started 19
Important
You can be fancy or plain when you pick a user account name, but take precautions when you
choose a password. The password is the key to your account, so it should be both unique and
easy for you to remember. Your password should be at least six characters. You can use both
uppercase and lowercase letters, as well as numbers and characters. Avoid easy selections,
such as qwerty or password. If you want to pick an easy-to-remember but somewhat unique
password, consider a variation of a word, such as a!rPl8nE for airplane.
1.6. Documentation Resources
If you have the Official Red Hat Linux boxed set, remember to take a look through the Red Hat Linux
7.3 Documentation CD. All of the Official Red Hat Linux manuals are on this CD. Once you have
logged in to your Red Hat Linux user account, inserting the Documentation CD in the CD-ROM drive
should automatically open the file manager (Nautilus on the GNOME desktop or Konqueror on the
KDE desktop). If the file manager does not open automatically after a minute or so, refer to Section
4.2 for details on mounting a CD-ROM.
When the file manager opens, click on the RH-DOCS directory to open it. You can view the Official
Red Hat Linux manuals using three methods:
View in PDF format
The RH-DOCS/pdf-en directory on the Red Hat Linux Documentation CD contains files that
end in pdf. To view the PDF versions of the manuals, use the xpdf program. Refer to Section
12.5 for details.
View in HTML format from the CD-ROM
Look under RH-DOCS in the file manager tree. Open the index-en.html file in a Web browser
(the en language abbreviation might vary for your language). Click on the name of the manual
you want to read.
You can also go to http://www.redhat.com/docs/ and read the documentation online. All of the
Red Hat Linux 7.3 manuals are available online in PDF, HTML, and RPM formats on the website.
View in HTML format after installing to your hard drive
The manuals are also available in RPM format. Installing the RPM packages copies the HTML
versions of the manuals to your hard drive so that you can view them without the CD-ROM or
an Internet connection. For more information on using RPM, refer to the Official Red Hat Linux
Customization Guide.
GnoRPM provides a graphical interface for installing RPM packages on your computer. To
install the RPM files for the manuals, insert the Documentation CD in the CD-ROM drive (this
prompts the file manager window to open automatically, but you can close or minimize it). For
a graphical interface, use GnoRPM to install the RPM packages. To start it in GNOME, go to
Main Menu => Programs => System => GnoRPM. In KDE, go to Main Menu => System
=> GnoRPM to start the program. You can also start it from a shell prompt by typing the su -
command, entering the root password when prompted, and typing the command gnorpm. The
screen as shown in Figure 1-8 appears.