Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - VIRTUAL SERVER ADMINISTRATION, Installation Manual

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Introduction
Welcome to the
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation Guide
.
HTML and PDF versions of the guides are available online at
http://www.redhat.com/docs/
.
Note
Although this manual reflects the most current information possible, read the
Red Hat
Enterprise Linux Release Notes
for information that may not have been available prior
to the documentation being finalized. The Release Notes can be found on the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux CD #1, online at
http://www.redhat.com/docs/
, or in the
/usr/share/
doc/redhat-release-notes-5 <variant> /
directory after installation, where
<variant>
is
Server
,
Client
, or
Desktop
.
1. What's New in this Edition?
Be sure to review the
Appendix A, Revision History
for features and bug fixes for this manual.
Feature Change Note
Chapter 7, Updating drivers
during installation on Intel and
AMD systems
,
Chapter 13,
Updating drivers during
installation on IBM POWER
systems
, and
Section 23.1,
“Driver update rpm packages”
New chapters on driver updates Documentation of driver
updates during installation
and with rpm packages
after installation has been
completely revised and brought
up-to-date.
Section 31.4, “Kickstart
Options”
New option for the
bootloader
kickstart
command.
--hvargs
specifies Xen
hypervisor arguments.
Section 31.5, “Package
Selection”
@Everything
no longer
supported
Red Hat no longer supports
installations performed with this
option.
Table 1. What's New in this Edition?
2. Architecture-specific Information
This manual is divided into different sections:
Sections One to Three are architecture specific, and give instructions on installing Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.5 with specific reference to 32- and 64-bit Intel
®
and AMD systems, IBM POWER-based
systems, and IBM System z architecture systems, respectively.
Section Four deals with a number of common tasks, including registering your system with Red Hat
Network, and generic information on Disk Partitioning.
Section Five deals with Basic System Recovery, and contains some architecture-specific information,
as well as information that applies to all architectures.
Section Six contains information on advanced installation topics such as Kickstart, PXE, and Diskless
installations.