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  • Page 1

    Recipe ID: 15RHAT250000000013 - 04 Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4 .4* Intel® Server Board S5000PAL[...]

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    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 2 Contents Pass - Through Certification ............................................................................................... 4 Red Hat Linux Pass - Through Hardware Requirements .........................................................................................[...]

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    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 3 Deleting a Partition ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 34 x86 and Intel® 64 Boot Loade[...]

  • Page 4

    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 4 Pass - Through Certification Pass - Through Certification refers to the ability for third - party systems to be granted the same certification status as models previously certified by Intel Corporation. Currently, Pass - Through Certification is only available to vendors who [...]

  • Page 5

    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 5 Hardware Components ( Configuration 1 ) Quantity Item Version/Model Notes 1 Intel Server Board S5000PAL S5000PAL 1 Intel® Ser ver Chassis SR 1 500 ( 1 U) 2 Intel® Xeon® processors Please refer to the Qualified and Supported Processor List for Intel® Server Board S5000PAL[...]

  • Page 6

    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 6 1 SAS 2 RAID 0 1 SAS 3 RAID 0 1 CD - ROM I nstalled I/O Module NIC I/O Embedded 7.0.27 Table 1 – Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Configuration Hardware (Configuration 1) (Configuration 2) Quantity Item Version/Model Notes 1 Intel Server Board S5000PAL S5000PAL 1 Intel® Serve[...]

  • Page 7

    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 7 Quantity Item Version/Model Notes http://support.intel.com/sup port/motherboards/server/s b/CS - 025416.htm SAS 2x 73 GB SAS SAS 0 RAID 1 SAS 1 RAID 1 SAS 2 RAID 0 SAS 3 RAID 0 CD - ROM Installed I/O Modul e 1064e SAS I/O Embedded mptsas Table 2 – Intel® Server Board S500[...]

  • Page 8

    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 8 (Configuration 3) Quantity Item Model/Version Notes 1 Intel Server Board S5000PAL S5000PAL 1 Intel® Server Chassis SR 1 500 ( 1 U) 2 In tel® Xeon® processors Any Supported Please refer to the Qualified and Supported Processor List for Intel® Server Board S5000PAL at http:[...]

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    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 9 Software Used in the Installation Dist. By Description File Name Red Hat Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Update 4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (sku# - IPP ) Table 4 - Software Bill of Materials Development Tools (Optional) Product Descri ption Where to Buy Intel® C++ Compilers f[...]

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    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 10 Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4* Installation This section explains how to perform a Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation from the CD - ROM, using the graphical, mous e - based installation program. The Graphical Installation Program User Interface If you have used a graphical[...]

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    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 11 These virtual consoles can be helpful if you encounter a problem while installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Messages displayed on the installation o r system consoles can help pinpoint a problem. Refer to Table 5 - 1 for a listing of the virtual consoles, keystrokes used to[...]

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    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 12 The Text Mode Installation Program User Interface The Red Hat Enterprise Linux text mode installation program uses a screen - base d interface that includes most of the on - screen widgets commonly found on graphical user interfaces . Figures 4 - 1, and Figure 4 - 2, illustr[...]

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    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 13 The list of the most important widgets shown in Figure 4 - 1 and Figure 4 - 2: • Window — Windows (usually referred to as dialogs in this manual) appear on your screen throughout the installation process. At times, one window may overlay another; in thes e cases, you ca[...]

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    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 14 [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; i t is equivalent to pressing the OK button. [...]

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    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 15 Tip : To change your BIOS settings on an x86 or Intel® 64 system, watch the instructions provided on your display when your computer fi rst boots. A line of text appears, telling you which key to press to enter the BIOS settings. 3) Once you have entered your BIOS setup pr[...]

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    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 16 Note: Refer to Appe ndix A “ Additional Boot Options ” for additional boot options not covered in this section. 1) To perform a text mode installation, at the installation boot prompt, type: linux text 2) ISO images have an md5sum embedded in them. To test the checksum i[...]

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    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 17 2) For text mode installations, use: linux text mem=128M With most computers, there is no need to pass this argument to the kernel. The kernel d etects the amount of memory your system has in most cases. However, using this command is often helpful for testing purposes. For[...]

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    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 18 2) The installation program then pr obes your system and attempts to identify your CD - ROM drive. It starts by looking for an IDE (also known as an ATAPI) CD - ROM drive. If found, continue to the next stage of the installation process (refer to the Language Selection secti[...]

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    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 19 Installing from a Hard Drive 1) The Select Partition screen applies only if you are installing from a disk partition (that is, if you selected Hard Drive in the Installation M ethod dialog). This dialog allows you to name the disk partition and directory from which you are [...]

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    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 20 2) Enter the domain name or IP address of your NFS server. For example, if you are installing from a host named eastcoast in the domain example.com, enter eastcoast.example.com in the NFS Server fi eld. 3) Next, enter the name of the exported directory . Figure 4 - 4 NFS Dia[...]

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    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 21 Installing via FTP The FTP dialog applies only if you are installing from an FTP server (if you selected FTP in the Installation Method dialog). This dialog allows yo u to identify the FTP server from which you are installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Figure 4 - 5. FTP Setu[...]

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    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 22 1) Enter the name or IP address of the HTTP site you are installing from, an d the name of the directory containing the RedHat/ installation fi les for your architecture. For example, if the HTTP site contains the directory /mirrors/redhat/arch/RedHat/, enter /mirrors/redhat[...]

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    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 23 Language Selection 1) Using your mouse, select a language to use for the installation (refer to Figure 4 - 7). 2) Selecting the appropriate language also helps target your time zone con fi guration later in the installation. The installation program tries to de fi ne the ap[...]

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    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 24 Keyboard Con fi guration 1) Using your mouse, select the correct layout type (for example, U.S. English) for the keyboard you would prefer to use for the insta llation and as the system default (refer to Figure 4 - 8). 2) Once you have made your selection, click Next to cont[...]

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    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 25 Figure 4 - 9 . Disk Partitioning Setup Warning : If you receive an error after the Disk Partitioning Setup phase of the i nstallation saying something similar to “ The partition table on device hda was unreadable. To create new partitions it must be initialized, causing t[...]

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    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 26 Caution : If you select this option, all data on the selected hard drive(s) is removed by the installation program. Do not select this option if you have information that you want to keep on the hard drive(s) where you are installing Red Hat Enterpri se Linux. • Keep all p[...]

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    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 27 4) Click Next once you have made your selections to proceed. Partitioning Your System 1) If you chose automatic partitioning and did not select Review, skip ahead to th e “ Network Con fi guration ” section . 2) If you chose automatic partitioning and selected Review, y[...]

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    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 28 2) Above the display, you can review the Drive name (such as /dev/hda), the Geom (which shows the hard disk’s geometry and consists of three numbers representing the number of cylinder s, heads, and sectors as reported by the hard disk), and the Model of the hard drive as [...]

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    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 29 To create an LVM logical volume, you must ?rst create partitions of type physical volume (LVM). Once you have created one or more physical volume (LVM) partitions, select LVM to create an LVM logical volume. Partition Fields Above the partition hierarc hy are labels which p[...]

  • Page 30

    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 30 - T he amount of physical RAM is installed on the machine. - The version of the OS. • Swap should equal 2x physical RAM for up to 2 GB of physical RAM, and then 1x physical RAM for any amount above 2 GB, but never less than 32 MB. • Using this formula, a system with 2 GB[...]

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    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 31 • A /boot/ partition (100 MB) — the partition mounted on /boot/ contains the operating system kernel (which allows your system to boot Red Hat Enterprise Linux), along with fi les used during the bootstrap process. Due to the limitations of most PC BIOSes, creating a sm[...]

  • Page 32

    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 32 Adding Partitions 1) To add a new partition, select the New button. A dialog box appears (refer to Figure 4 - 12 ). Note : You must dedicate at least one partition for this installation, and optiona lly more. Figure 4 - 12 . Parti tioning with Disk Druid on x86 and Intel® 6[...]

  • Page 33

    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 33 • Force to be a primary partition: Select whether the partition you are creating should be one of the fi rst four partitions on the hard drive. If unselected, the partition is created as a logical partition. Refer to Section D.1.3 P artitions within Partitions — An Over[...]

  • Page 34

    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 34 Editing Partitions To edit a partition, select the Edit button or double - click on the existing partition. Note : If the partition already exi sts on your hard disk, you can only change the partition’s mount point. To make any other changes, you must delete the partition [...]

  • Page 35

    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 35 (the mechanism for loading unsupported operating systems, such as DOS or Windows, by loading another boot loader). If you do not want to install GRUB as your boot loader, click Change boot loader, where you can choose no t to install a boot loader at all. 1) If you already [...]

  • Page 36

    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 36 Advanced Boot Loader Con fi guration Now that you have chosen which boot loader to install, you can also determine where you want the boot loader to be installed. You may install the boot loader in one of two places: • The master boot record (MBR) — This is the recommend[...]

  • Page 37

    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 37 2) The Force LBA32 (not normally required) option allows you to exceed the 1024 cylinder limit for the /boot/ partition. If you have a system which supports the LBA32 extension for booting operating syste ms above the 1024 cylinder limit, and you want to place your /boot/ p[...]

  • Page 38

    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 38 • Commercial boot loaders - You can load Linux using commercial boot loaders. For example, System Commander and Partition Magic are abl e to boot Linux (but still require GRUB to be installed in your Linux root partition). Note : Boot loaders such as LOADLIN and System Com[...]

  • Page 39

    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 39 Network Con fi guration If you do not have a network device, this screen does not appear during your installation and you should advance to Firewall Co n fi guration. Figure 4 - 14 . Network Configuration 1) The installation program automatically detects any network devices[...]

  • Page 40

    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 40 2) Once you have selected a network device, click Edit. From the Edit Interface pop - up screen, you can choose to con fi gure the IP address and Netmask of the device via DHCP (or manually if DHCP is not selected) and you can choose to activate the device at boot time. If y[...]

  • Page 41

    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 41 Firewal l Con fi guration Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers fi rewall protection for enhanced system security. A fi rewall exists between your computer and the network, and determines which resources on your computer remote users on the network can access. A properly con fi g[...]

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    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 42 3) Enabling these options allow the speci fi ed services to pass through the fi rewall. Note, these services may not be installed on the system by default. Make sure you choose to enable any options that you m ay need. • Remote Login (SSH) • Secure Shell (SSH) is a suite[...]

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    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 43 • Disable — Select Disable if you do not want SELinux security controls enabled on this system. The Disabled setting turns enforcing off and does not set up the machine for the use of a security policy. • Warn — Select Warn to be noti fi ed of any denials. The Warn [...]

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    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 44 Caution : If you select only one language, you can only use that speci fi ed language after the installation is complete. Figure 4 - 17 . Language Support Selection To use more than one language on your system, choose speci fi c languages to be installed or select all langua[...]

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    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 45 Time Zone Con fi guration Set your time zone by selecting the city closest to your computer’s physical location. There are two ways for you to sele ct your time zone: 1) Using your mouse, click on the interactive map to select a speci fi c city (represented by a yellow do[...]

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    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 46 Set Root Password Setting up a root account and password is one of the most important steps during your installation. Your root account is similar to the administrator account use d on Windows NT machines. The root account is used to install packages, upgrade RPMs, and perfo[...]

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    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 47 4) You should make the root password something you can remember, but not something that is easy for someone else to guess. Your name, your phone number, qwerty, password, root, 123456, and anteater are all examples of bad passwords. Good passwords mix numerals with upper an[...]

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    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 48 4) You can select package groups, which group components together according to function (for example, X Window Sy stem and Editors), individual packages, or a combination of the two. Note : Users of Intel® 64 , and Itanium systems who want support for developing or running [...]

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    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 49 6) Once a package group has been selected, click on Details to view which packages are installed by default, and to add or remove optional packages from that group. Figure 4 - 21 . Package Group Details Preparing to Install 1) A screen preparing you for the installation of [...]

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    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 50 3) After your computer’s normal power - up sequence has completed, the graphical boot loader prompt appears at which you can do any of the following things: a) Press [Enter] — causes the default boot entry to be booted. b) Select a bo ot label, followed by [Enter] — ca[...]

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    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 51 Appendix A: Addition al Boot Options This appendix discusses additional boot and kernel boot options available for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation program. To use any of the boot options presented here, type the command you wish to invoke at the installation boot:[...]

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    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 52 original display. Using the command xhost +remotehostname limits access to the remote display terminal and does not allow access from anyone or any system not speci fi cally authorized f or remote access. driverdisk: This command performs the same function as the dd command [...]

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    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 53 nofb: This command disables frame buffer support and allows the installation program to run in text mode. This command may be necessary for accessibility with some screen reading hardware. nomce: This x86 boot com mand disables self - diagnosis checks performed on the CPU. [...]

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    Installing Red Hat * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 54 rescue: This command runs rescue mode. Refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Admi nistration Guide for more information about rescue mode. resolution=: Tells the installation program which video mode to run. It accepts any standard resolution, such as 640x480, 800x600[...]

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    Installing Red Ha t * Enterprise Linux 4 * Intel® Server Board S5000PAL 55 www.intel.com/go/esaa The information contained in this document is provided for informational purposes o nly and represents the current view of Intel Corporation (“Intel”) and its contributors ("Contributors") on, as of the date of publication. Intel and the [...]