User's Manual

Linux Server Installation
Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3.0 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3.0
10 Configuring Red Hat Linux
July 2004
Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3.0 or
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3.0
1 At the “Disk Partitioning Setup” prompt (screen #5), choose Manually Partition with Disk
Druid, and click Next.
2 At the “Disk Setup” prompt (screen #7), use the Delete button to delete any partitioning that
appears for the hard drive.
3 At the “Disk Setup” prompt (screen #7), use the New button to add partitions as shown in the
following table.
The precise partition sizes are shown for a 40 GB hard drive. (Note that a 40 GB hard drive
partitions to approximately 38 GB.) If the hard drive is bigger than 40 GB, use the proportion
column to partition the hard drive.
4 At the “Network Configuration” prompt (screen #8), click Edit, clear the Configuration using
DHCP check box, enter the static IP address and subnet mask, and then click OK.
5 At the “Network Configuration” prompt (screen #8), enter the fully-qualified domain name in the
hostname field; gateway; and primary, secondary, and tertiary DNS server IP addresses, and then
click Next.
6 At the “Package Install Defaults” prompt (screen #13), select Customize the set of packages to
be installed, and then click Next.
7 At the “Package Group Selection” prompt (screen #14), select Editors, Legacy Software
Development, KDE, and FTP Server. If you are using analog modem-based alarming with
Proxy Agent on this server, also select System Tools, click Details, select UUCP, and then click
OK. When done, click Next.
8 At the “About to Install” prompt (screen #15), click Next. The files are installed.
9 At the “Install Successful” prompt (screen #20), click Exit to reboot the system. The system
reboots.
10 At the “User Account” prompt (screen #24), add at least one regular user account to the system.
Mount Point
Partition Size
(40 GB HD)
Proportion of
Disk Space
(>40 GB HD)
File System
Type
/ 800 MB 2% ext3
/boot 100 MB 1% ext3
/home 6000 MB 17% ext3
/usr 6000 MB 15% ext3
/opt 10000 MB 26% ext3
/var 10000 MB 26% ext3
swap 2048 MB 2048 MB swap
/tmp 3000 MB 8% ext3
Total 37948 MB 100%