Red Hat Linux 9 Professional Secrets by Naba Barkakati
By Naba Barkakati
* the final word consultant to what is below the hood of pink Hat Linux nine, thoroughly revised to unencumber its private secrets and techniques* Designed to reply to the questions of intermediate-to-advanced crimson Hat Linux clients who really need to appreciate the fine details of purple Hat Linux and what is going on backstage* Takes the reader past the most obvious information regarding this advanced working process, revealing hidden good points, methods and exchange equipment that cannot be simply came upon in different places: little-known set up thoughts, how you can tweak the TCP/IP configuration documents for optimum community potency, ideas for optimizing OpenOffice, and masses extra* contains CD-ROMS containing pink Hat Linux nine Publisher's variation
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The installation program searches for any existing Red Hat Linux installation on your PC and then prompts you for the installation type—whether you want to install a new system or upgrade any older Red Hat installation. If you are performing a fresh installation, you have to select the installation type: Personal Desktop, Workstation, Server, or Custom. The Personal Desktop, Workstation, and Server 36 Chapter 2: Red Hat Linux Installation Chapter 2: Red Hat Linux Installation 37 installations simplify the installation process by partitioning the disk in a predefined manner.
If this works, you can start Linux directly from the CD-ROM. Otherwise, you have to use a boot floppy. To start Linux, place the Red Hat CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive, and use the following commands from the DOS prompt: D: (use the drive letter for the CD-ROM drive) cd \dosutils autoboot 32 Chapter 2: Red Hat Linux Installation Chapter 2: Red Hat Linux Installation 33 After Linux starts, the Red Hat installation program begins to run. The section “Installing Linux from the Red Hat CD-ROM” describes this process in detail.
After you have selected the package groups you want, click the Next button to continue with the rest of the installation. Table 2-2: List of Package Groups in Red Hat Linux Package Group Desktops X Window System GNOME Desktop Environment KDE Desktop Environment Applications Editors Engineering and Scientific Graphical Internet Text-based Internet Office/Productivity Sound and Video Authoring and Publishing Graphics Games and Entertainment Description Packages that make up XFree86, the X Window System for Intel x86 systems; includes all fonts, libraries, and GUI tools for configuring X, adding users, configuring printers, and so on Packages for the GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) graphical desktop, including the Nautilus graphical shell Packages for the KDE—K Desktop Environment—another graphical desktop for Linux Text editors such as Emacs and vi Packages such as blas, octave, and gnuplot for performing math and science computations and plotting Graphical email, Web, chat, and instant messaging clients included in packages such as evolution, mozilla, xchat, and gaim Text-based email, Web, FTP, and news reader clients included in packages such as pine, lynx, xchat, ncftp, and slrn Office suites, PDF viewers, and more in packages such as openoffice, abiword, xpdf, koffice, and kghostview Multimedia applications for tasks such as playing audio CDs and burning CDs in packages such as cdda2wav, cdp, cdrecord, dvdrecord, grip, xcdroast, and xmms Tools to create documentation in TeX (pronounced “tech”) and DocBook document-formatting system, provided in packages such as docbook-utils, tetex-latex, and xmlto Packages such as xsane, gimp, ImageMagick, and gtkam to scan and manipulate images and work with digital camera A number of computer games provided in packages such as Maelstrom, gnome-games, and kdegames Servers Chapter 2: Red Hat Linux Installation 47 48 Server Configuration Tools Web Server Mail Server Servers Windows File Server DNS Name Server FTP Server SQL Database Server News Server Network Servers Development Development Tools Kernel Development X Software Development GNOME Software Development KDE Software Development System Administration Tools System Tools Printing Support Miscellaneous Minimal Everything 48 Chapter 2: Red Hat Linux Installation Red Hat’s custom server configuration tools in packages such as redhat-config-bind, redhat-config-httpd, redhat-config-nfs, redhat-config-network, redhat-config-printer, redhat-config-printer-gui, redhat-config-samba, redhat-config-securitylevel, and redhat-config-services Packages such as httpd, php, mod_perl, mod_ssl, and php-pgsql needed to run the Apache Web server Packages such as sendmail, imap, and sendmail-cf used to set up a mail server Samba and other supporting packages needed to use the Linux PC as a LAN Manager server The bind and caching-nameserver packages needed to provide Domain Name Service (DNS) on the Red Hat Linux system The vsftpd and anonftp packages needed to run an FTP server Packages such as postgresql-server and mysql-server that enable you to implement an SQL server (a database) on the Red Hat Linux system The inn package for setting up an Internet News server Packages such as cipe, dhcp, and telnet-server that enable you to run other services such as CIPE (Cryptographic IP Encapsulation), DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), and Telnet Software development tools in packages such as gcc, gcc-c++, gcc-java, gdb, perl-CPAN, python-devel, cvs, rcs, and so on The kernel-source package and other libraries needed to rebuild the kernel Packages such as XFree86-devel, lesstif-devel, and openmotif-devel needed to develop GUI applications for the X Window System Packages such as gtk+-devel, gtk2-devel, libgnome-devel, and bonobo-devel needed to develop GTK+ and GNOME graphical applications Packages such as PyQt-devel, kdebase-devel, kdelibs-devel, qt-designer, and qt-devel needed to develop QT and KDE graphical applications Graphical system administration tools in packages such as redhat-config-date, redhat-config-keyboard, redhat-config-kickstart, redhat-config-language, redhat-config-mouse, redhat-config-rootpassword, redhat-config-soundcard, redhat-config-users, redhat-config-packages, redhat-config-proc, and redhat-logviewer System administration and networking tools in packages such as ethereal, gnome-lokkit, nmap, samba-client, and vnc Packages such as cups, cups-drivers, LPRng, and ghostscript needed to print from the system Select this to install a minimal system.