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