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

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11.1. Upgrade or Install? ......................................................................................... 109
11.2. Preparation for IBM eServer System p and System i ......................................... 109
11.3. Do You Have Enough Disk Space? .................................................................. 109
11.4. Can You Install Using the CD-ROM or DVD? .................................................... 110
11.5. Preparing for a Network Installation .................................................................. 110
11.5.1. Preparing for FTP and HTTP installation ................................................ 111
11.5.2. Preparing for an NFS install .................................................................. 111
11.6. Preparing for a Hard Drive Installation .............................................................. 112
12. Installing on IBM System i and IBM System p systems 115
12.1. The Graphical Installation Program User Interface ............................................ 115
12.2. Booting the IBM System i or IBM System p Installation Program ........................ 116
12.3. A Note about Linux Virtual Consoles ................................................................ 117
12.4. Using the HMC vterm ..................................................................................... 117
12.5. The Text Mode Installation Program User Interface ........................................... 117
12.5.1. Using the Keyboard to Navigate ............................................................ 119
12.6. Beginning Installation ..................................................................................... 120
12.6.1. Installing from DVD/CD-ROM ................................................................ 120
12.7. Installing from a Hard Drive ............................................................................. 120
12.8. Performing a Network Installation .................................................................... 121
12.9. Installing via NFS ........................................................................................... 122
12.10. Installing via FTP .......................................................................................... 123
12.11. Installing via HTTP ........................................................................................ 124
12.12. Welcome to Red Hat Enterprise Linux ............................................................ 125
12.13. Language Selection ...................................................................................... 126
12.14. Keyboard Configuration ................................................................................. 127
12.15. Enter the Installation Number ........................................................................ 128
12.16. Disk Partitioning Setup .................................................................................. 129
12.17. Advanced Storage Options ........................................................................... 131
12.18. Create Default Layout ................................................................................... 133
12.19. Partitioning Your System ............................................................................... 135
12.19.1. Graphical Display of Hard Drive(s) ...................................................... 136
12.19.2.
Disk Druid
's Buttons .......................................................................... 136
12.19.3. Partition Fields ................................................................................... 137
12.19.4. Recommended Partitioning Scheme .................................................... 138
12.19.5. Adding Partitions ................................................................................ 139
12.19.6. Editing Partitions ................................................................................ 141
12.20. Network Configuration ................................................................................... 142
12.21. Time Zone Configuration ............................................................................... 144
12.22. Set Root Password ....................................................................................... 145
12.23. Package Group Selection .............................................................................. 146
12.24. Preparing to Install ........................................................................................ 148
12.24.1. Prepare to Install .............................................................................. 148
12.25. Installing Packages ....................................................................................... 149
12.26. Installation Complete ..................................................................................... 149
13. Updating drivers during installation on IBM POWER systems 151
13.1. Limitations of driver updates during installation ................................................. 151
13.2. Preparing for a driver update during installation ................................................ 152
13.2.1. Preparing to use a driver update image file ............................................ 153
13.2.2. Preparing a driver update disk .............................................................. 154
13.2.3. Preparing an initial RAM disk update ..................................................... 157