| | With Red Hat’s new graphical installer, the installation process has become simple. For the most part, you will use the default choices made for you by the installation program, with a couple of exceptions for the server. Before you being installation, you must first contact the network administrator at your institution and get a few network numbers for each of your machines. These numbers consist of an IP address for each machine, a subnet mask, router address, and name server addresses (up to three). Each IP is represented by a series of four numbers separated by periods. Here are examples of all of the numbers you will need; I suggest writing them down in a way similar to my example: IP Addeess: 192.168.1.254
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Router: 192.168.123.150
Name Servers: 192.168.100.1
192.168.100.2 These numbers are just examples; yours will be different, but still represented in the same way. During the installation process, you will have to enter these numbers for each machine so the local network and Internet are accessible. I suggest printing the list of numbers you requested from your network administrator, and keep them handy during your installations. For this installation, I use the Red Hat 7.0 CD-ROM, but booting from the floppy disk and network installs will still follow the same procedures. Before you begin, be sure your computer’s BIOS is set to boot from the CD-ROM drive. Finally, before you begin, note as much about your system as you can, especially RAM size, hard disk size, keyboard type, monitor, video card, mouse type, and any other information that you believe pertinent. You should use a computer with an expendable hard drive for your server; i.e., a hard drive that has been backed up and can be erased. | |