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<h1 class="topictitle1">Completing the installation of RHEL 4 on the IXA</h1>
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<div><p>This topic discusses the steps necessary to complete the Red Hat
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Enterprise Linux<sup>®</sup> installation</p>
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<div class="section">To complete the installation of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ES or
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AS (RHEL 4) server:</div>
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<ol><li class="stepexpand"><span>The xSeries server boots from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 disc
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1 located in the xSeries CD-ROM drive. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux install
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prompt will appear.</span> <p></p>
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<p><span class="uicontrol">Important: </span><em>You
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must enter <span class="uicontrol">linux dd</span> so that you will be prompted for
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a driver diskette.</em> If you do not enter linux dd within 1 minute, the installation
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will continue without prompting you for a diskette and a warning message indicating
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that no hard drives have been found will appear. To recover, press CTRL-ALT-DELETE
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to reboot the xSeries. The RHEL 4 installation will begin again. You must
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enter <span class="uicontrol">linux dd</span> at the install prompt within 1 minute.</p>
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</li>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>A dialog will display, <span class="uicontrol">Do you have a driver disk?</span> Select <span class="uicontrol">Yes</span>.
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and press <span class="uicontrol">Enter</span>.</span></li>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>If the installation detects multiple devices that could serve as
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sources for a driver disk, select <span class="uicontrol">fd0</span> and press <span class="uicontrol">Enter</span>.</span></li>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>You will be prompted to insert the driver diskette into the drive.
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After you insert the driver diskette into the drive, press <span class="uicontrol">Enter</span>.
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There will be a message indicating that it is reading the driver diskette
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and then loading the ibmixsvs driver.</span></li>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>You will be prompted to load more driver disks. There is no need
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to do this. Select <span class="uicontrol">No</span> and press <span class="uicontrol">Enter</span>.</span></li>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>The Red Hat graphical interface will start. You can continue through
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the installation making selections as you prefer however specific selections
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are required on the <span class="uicontrol">Disk Partitioning Setup</span> and <span class="uicontrol">Boot
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Loader Configuration</span> screens.</span></li>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>When the installation displays the <span class="uicontrol">Disk Partitioning
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Setup</span> screen, you can choose to automatically partition the disk
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or manually partition the disk using Disk Druid. Unless you are an experienced
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user, we recommend that you choose to automatically partition the disk. </span> <dl><dt class="dlterm"><span class="uicontrol">Important: </span><em>The install drive (/dev/sdb)
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FAT partition must not be modified. Otherwise the server will not boot.</em> </dt>
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<dd></dd>
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<dt class="dlterm"></dt>
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<dt class="dlterm">To use automatic partitioning:</dt>
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<dd>a. Select <strong>Automatically partition</strong> and click <strong>Next</strong>.</dd>
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<dd class="ddexpand">b. Two disks are displayed, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. Remove the check before
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/dev/sdb so that /dev/sda is the only drive checked and select <strong>Remove all
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partitions on this system</strong>. Click on <strong>Next</strong>, then click <strong>Yes</strong> on
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the warning message.</dd>
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<dd class="ddexpand">c. Review the partition setup on the <strong>Disk Setup</strong> display. Click <strong>Next</strong>.</dd>
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</dl>
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</li>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>When the installation displays the <span class="uicontrol">Boot Loader Configuration</span> screen,
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you must make sure that the <span class="uicontrol">GRUB</span> boot loader will be
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installed on <span class="uicontrol">/dev/sda</span>. Click <span class="uicontrol">Next</span>.</span></li>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>Continue on with installation making selections as you prefer.
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When you are done making selections, the installation will prompt you for
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CD-ROMs. When this phase is finished, the server will reboot.</span></li>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>After the server reboots, the Setup Agent will guide you through
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some basic configuration. You can continue through the setup as you prefer;
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however, specific selections are required on the <span class="uicontrol">Red Hat Login</span> and <span class="uicontrol">Why
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Register</span> screens. The reason is that Red Hat updates can not be
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applied to your server until the post-installation instructions have been
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completed which are in the section titled <em>Completing the post-installation
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tasks</em>. </span></li>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>On the <span class="uicontrol">Red Hat Login</span> screen, select <span class="uicontrol">Tell
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me why I need to register and provide a Red Hat login</span> and click <span class="uicontrol">Next</span>.</span></li>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>On the <span class="uicontrol">Why Register</span> screen, select <span class="uicontrol">I
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can not complete registration at this time, remind me later</span> and
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click <span class="uicontrol">Next</span>.</span></li>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>When the setup phases are complete, you will be prompted to sign
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on to the sever. Please follow the instructions described in the section titled <em>Completing
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the post-installation tasks.</em></span></li>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>Once the post-installation instructions are complete, you can apply
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Red Hat updates to your server.</span> <p></p>
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<p><span class="uicontrol">Important:</span> After
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applying Red Hat updates, you <em>must</em> run <span class="uicontrol">ixsupdt</span> before
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you reboot your server. Details for ixsupdt are listed in the section titled <em>Maintaining
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the Linux integration code</em>.</p>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rzau9crtintlnxcon.htm" title="This topic introduces how to complete the installation with the Linux console.">Completing the installation from the Linux console</a></div>
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