HP LH4r Installing Red Hat Linux 5.2 Web Server - Page 4

Textual Key, Pre-Installation Steps, Beginning the Installation

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Textual Key In the steps which follow, these style conventions are used: "Screen Title" ("Widget Title") is represented in quotation marks. The same text appears about midway down each screen at the top bar of the box. If a screen or widget has no title, then Screen Text looks like this. ---> Highlighted choices are indented and have an arrow pointing to them. User Inputs (what you should type) and explanations are indented and look like this. The control keys on your keyboard are represented like this: , , , and so forth. Pre-Installation Steps To prepare for installation you need the following: • IP address for the server • Subnet Mask • Default Gateway • Machine Name • Domain Name NOTE It is not recommended to use DHCP to assign the IP information of a server. NOTE HP recommends that you create a boot disk by using the DOS rawrite utility on the CD-ROM. For example, assuming your CD-ROM is in the D: drive, you would type: d: \dosutils\rawrite -f d:\images\boot.img You may need this floppy later if you encounter problems booting from the CD-ROM. Beginning the Installation 4

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Textual Key
In the steps which follow, these style conventions are used:
"Screen Title" ("Widget Title") is represented in quotation marks. The same text
appears about midway down each screen at the top bar of the box.
If a screen or widget has no title, then
Screen Text looks like this.
---> Highlighted choices are indented and have an arrow
pointing to them.
User Inputs (what you should type) and explanations are
indented and look like this.
The control keys on your keyboard are represented like
this: <Enter>, <Space>, <F3>, and so forth.
Pre-Installation Steps
To prepare for installation you need the following:
IP address for the server
Subnet Mask
Default Gateway
Machine Name
Domain Name
NOTE
It is not recommended to use DHCP to assign the IP information
of a server.
NOTE
HP recommends that you create a boot disk by using the DOS
rawrite
utility on the CD-ROM. For example, assuming your
CD-ROM is in the D: drive, you would type:
d: \dosutils\rawrite –f d:\images\boot.img
You may need this floppy later if you encounter problems
booting from the CD-ROM.
Beginning the Installation