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• Button widget — button widgets are the primary method of interacting with the installation pro-
gram. You progress through the windows of the installation program by navigating these buttons,
using the
[Tab] and [Enter] keys. Buttons can be selected when they are highlighted.
• Cursor — although not a widget, the cursor is used to select (and interact) with a particular widget.
As the cursor is moved from widget to widget, it may cause the widget to change color, or you may
only see the cursor itself positioned in or next to the widget. In Figure 4–1, Installation Program
Widgets as seen in
Configure TCP/IP, the cursor is positioned on the OK button. Figure 4–2,
Installation Program Widgets as seen in
Disk Druid shows the cursor on the Edit button.
4.2.1 Using the Keyboard to Navigate
Navigation through the installation dialogs is performed through a simple set of keystrokes. To move
the cursor, use
[Left], [Right], [Up], and [Down] arrow keys. Use [Tab], and [Alt]-[Tab] to cycle forward
or backward through each widget on the screen. Along the bottom, most screens display a summary
of available cursor positioning keys.
To "press" a button, position the cursor over the button (using
[Tab], for example) and press [Space]
or [Enter]. To select an item from a list of items, move the cursor to the item you wish to select and
press
[Enter]. To select an item with a checkbox, move the cursor to the checkbox and press
[Space]
to select an item. To deselect, press [Space] a second time.
Pressing
[F12] accepts the current values and proceeds to the next dialog; it is equivalent to pressing
the
OK
button.
CAUTION
Unless a dialog box is waiting for your input, do not press any keys during
the installation process (doing so may result in unpredictable behavior).
4.3 Starting the Installation Program
The following methods can be used to start the installation:
• Insert a boot diskette that you have created into the primary diskette drive and reboot your com-
puter.
• Insert the Red Hat Linux CD 1 into the drive and reboot, if your computer can boot from the
CD-ROM drive.
Refer to Section 2.2.3, Booting the Installation Program to determine whether you can boot off the
CD-ROM or need to boot off a boot diskette.