Installation guide

10DREA CR 2001-107
management, whereas nfs is a file protocol for file sharing across TCP/IP networks.
3.13 Configuring a Printer (p. 96 of guide)
We did not ask to configure a printer.
3.14 Authentication Configuration (pp. 103-104 of guide)
We unchecked "Enable NIS". We checked "Use Shadow Passwords" and "Enable MD5
Passwords".
3.15 Creating a Boot Diskette (pp. 104-105 of guide)
We created a boot disk.
3.16 Installing LILO (pp. 105-106 of guide)
We installed LILO in the first sector of the root partition
(/dev/hda3).
3.17 Adding Options to LILO Boot Command Line (pp. 107-108)
We checked "Use linear mode", since we assumed that the hard drives were accessed in LBA
mode. In the "Bootable Partitions" menu, we blanked out the "Boot label" for the Windows
NT partition (/dev/hda1), since we did not want LILO to have the option of booting Windows
NT.
3.18 Configuring the X Window System (pp. 108-109 of guide)
Under "Monitor Setup" we selected "custom" since our specific monitor was not listed. The
Red Hat Linux installation program does not allow one to arbitrarily specify the monitor's
horizontal and vertical sync rates; instead one must select from a menu of rates. It is presumed
that this was done to reduce that possibility that the user might "overclock" the monitor,
thereby damaging or destroying it. The UltraScan P990 monitor appears to have some
protection against overclocking, since it will display an "out of scan range" message if the
input signal is not within the monitor's specifications.
For the horizontal sync rate we selected "1600 x 1200 @ 70 Hz", since the "Dell Monitor
User's Guide" (page 1-14) lists a preset timing mode of "1600 x 1200 @ 75 Hz vertical
frequency". The installation program did have an option of "1600 x 1200 @ 76 Hz", but we
decided not to select that option, out of concern that we might overclock the monitor. Note
that what the installation program refers to as "horizontal sync rate" is somewhat confusing
since it lists the screen resolution and the vertical rate, rather than the actual horizontal rate.
For the vertical sync rate we selected "50-100" as this was closest to the monitor's specified
vertical deflection frequency range of 48 to 120 Hz (page 1-20 of the "Dell Monitor User's