Comments and suggestions conceming this page should be mailed to gmourani@videotron.ca Creating the Boot Disk and Booting ake the boot disk inse the Official Red Hat linux 6 1 CD-ROM Part 1 in computer.When the program asks for the filename.you enter boomg for the boot disk.To o use these commandsO awrite.exe sou Enter ce file name:boot.img te drive:a Insert a floppy into drive A. we start the installatio directly off the CD-ROM,you have to boot with the boot disk.Insert th disk you create into the drive Aon the comuter were you wntonstaLinux reboot the computer.At the boot:prompt,press 'Enter to continue booting. Choose your language Choose your ke Select your mouse type 0 Installation Class and Method RedHat Linux 6.1 includes defines four different classes,or type of installation.They are: 86 These classes(GNOME Workstation,KDE Workstation,and Server)give you the option of simplifying the installation proce ess (with a lot lo of configuration flexibility that we don't want to have). or this reason w isr that resides o the bo the fewero Select Custom"and click Next. Disk Setup Warning 8ea82eiemmea3peratsenhtyoumakeabaekapofouraunenysembeoe your Netvork ArchitectureComments and suggestions concerning this page should be mailed to gmourani@videotron.ca © Copyright 1999 Open Network Architecture ® 9 I) Creating the Boot Disk and Booting Before you make the boot disk, insert the Official Red Hat Linux 6.1 CD-ROM Part 1 in your computer. When the program asks for the filename, you enter boot.img for the boot disk. To make the floppies under MS-DOS, you need to use these commands (assuming your CD-ROM is drive D: and contain the Official Red Hat Linux 6.1 CD-ROM). Open the Command Prompt under Windows: Start | Programs | Command Prompt Type d: Type cd \images Type \dosutils\rawrite.exe D:\images>\dosutils\rawrite.exe Enter disk image source file name: boot.img Enter target diskette drive: a -rawrite.exe asks for the filename of the disk image. Enter boot.img. Insert a floppy into drive A. It will then ask for a disk to write to. Enter a:. Label the disk Red Hat boot disk. Since we start the installation directly off the CD-ROM, you have to boot with the boot disk. Insert the boot disk you create into the drive A on the computer where you wan to install Linux and reboot the computer. At the boot: prompt, press “Enter” to continue booting. Choose your language Choose your keyboard type Select “Local CD-ROM” Select your mouse type II) Installation Class and Method RedHat Linux 6.1 includes defines four different classes, or type of installation. They are: GNOME Workstation KDE Workstation Server Custom These classes (GNOME Workstation, KDE Workstation, and Server) give you the option of simplifying the installation process (with a lot loss of configuration flexibility that we don’t want to have). For this reason we highly recommend “Custom”, as this allows you to choose what services are added and how the system is partitioned. The idea is to load the minimum packages, while maintaining maximum efficiency. The less software that resides on the box, the fewer potential security exploits or holes. Select “Custom” and click Next. III) Disk Setup Warning We highly recommend, therefore, that you make a backup of your current system before proceeding with the disk partitioning. For performance, stability and security reason you must do something like the following partition listed bellow on your system. We suppose for this partition configuration the fact that you wan to setup a Web server with a Proxy Server on your Server Machine. We will make two special