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Lesson 21– INSTALLING LINUX IN A SERVER CONFIGURATION
Before the installation
Installing Red Hat Linux
OVERVIEW
Hardware
Server design
Design decision
Physical safety of servers
Improve server situation
Uptime
Dual-Booting issues
Methods of installation
BEFORE THE INSTALLATION
Hardware Compatibility List (HCL):
Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/hardware
Caldera
www.calderasystems.com/products/openlinux/hardware.html
Hardware
Significant issues:
Stability
Availability
Performance
Server design
The most significant design decision to make when
managing a server configuration is not technical, but
administrative.
The server designed should have a good environment.
Design decision
Server design should not be user friendly:
No multimedia tools.
No sound card support.
No distracting web browsers.
Design decision
Physical safety of servers
Keep servers in a separate, physically secure room.
Restrict server access for non-administrative personnel
only through the Network.
Install a battery backup.
Improve server situation
Avoid starting X Window until required.
Determine what functions you want the server to
perform and disable the other functions.
Linux allows tailoring of the kernel.
Uptime command provides:
Duration of the system since its last boot.
Number of users currently logged in.
Load the system is experiencing.
Uptime
Dual-Booting issues
Windows 95 or Windows 98 – use the fips.exe.
Windows NT – move some of the data around manually to
free a partition.
Dual-Booting issues
To repartition a system that has already had Windows
9x/NT installed onto it –use third party software like
“Partition Magic”.
Methods of installation
Network
CD-ROM
For more information
Call the distribution’s tech support lines.
www.linuxcare.com
www.redhat.com
www.caldera.com
comp.os.linux.admin
http://www.deja.com.
http://www.linuxdoc.org
INSTALLING RED HAT LINUX
Creating a Boot Disk
Starting the installation
Creating a Boot Disk
Select Start, Programs, MS-DOS Prompt.
Change to the drive where the CD-ROM is located.
Select the dosutils directory.
Execute the rawrite.exe program.
Starting the installation
Steps:
Boot off the CD-ROM.
Press ENTER to start the process.
Starting the installation
Choose a language.
Starting the installation
Select a keyboard type.
Starting the installation
Select a mouse.
Starting the installation
You can now begin installing Red Hat Linux.
A splash screen tells you how to register Red Hat Linux.
Click Next to continue.
Starting the installation
Select between Installing/Upgrading.
Starting the installation
Create partitions for Linux
Starting the installation
Disk Druid partitioning tool:
Mount Point
Device Linux associates each partition with a separate
device.
Requested
Actual
Type
Starting the installation
Disk Druid partitioning tool
Starting the installation
Add a partition :
Mount point
Size (Megs)
Grow to fill disk
Partition type
Allowable drives
Starting the installation
Adding a partition
Starting the installation
Adding a partition
Starting the installation
Install LILO.
Starting the installation
Set up Networking.
Starting the installation
Configure the Time Zone.
Starting the installation
Create accounts
Starting the installation
Configure authentication.
Starting the installation
Select package groups.
Starting the installation
Configure X Windows.
Starting the installation
Configuring X Windows
Starting the installation
Begin the installation.
Starting the installation
Create the Boot Disk.
Before the installation:
Hardware
Server design
Design decision
Physical safety of servers
Improve server situation
Uptime
Dual-Booting issues
Methods of installation
SUMMARY
Installing Red Hat Linux :
Creating a Boot Disk
Starting the installation
Summary