Installing from the Red Hat Linux CD-ROM

Monitoring the Installation Process

As the installation progresses, you respond primarily to various dialog boxes, entering information the installation program needs. The installation program displays useful information about a number of virtual consoles—these are screens of text in memory that you can view on the physical screen by pressing the key sequences shown in Table 2-1.

Understanding the Red Hat Installation Phases

Installing Red Hat Linux is a fairly lengthy process that contains the following major phases:

1. Getting Ready to Install—Choose the language to be used during the installation process. Indicate the type of keyboard. If you haven’t already placed the first Red Hat CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive, you also have to specify the media from which Red Hat Linux is to be loaded (for example, the CD-ROM). After the graphical installation screen appears, configure the mouse. Then specify whether you are installing or upgrading and, if you are installing, the type of installation: workstation, server, or custom. I show a custom system installation in this chapter.

2. Partitioning and Using the Hard Disk—This step is to prepare the hard disk space you plan to use for Red Hat Linux. Select the automatic partition option to let the installation program perform this step, or partition the disk manually using Disk Druid. At minimum, you need two partitions—one to be used as swap area and the other for the Linux root file system (represented by /). The partitions are also formatted before use. Appendix B discusses typical partitioning strategies in an operational Linux system.

3. Configuring Linux—In this phase, specify where the GRUB boot loader or Linux Loader (LILO) should be loaded. For GRUB, you can also specify a password that has to be entered to load Linux at system startup. You set up the TCP/IP network, the firewall, the language support, and the time zone, and you specify a password for the root—the super user. The final configuration step is to set up the authentication mechanism.

4. Selecting the Package Groups to Install—Select which package groups—such as X Window System, GNOME desktop, KDE Desktop, Editors, and Web server—you want to install. Up to this point, you can abort the installation without writing anything to the hard disk. After you select the package groups, the installation program prepares the hard disk and installs the selected packages on the hard disk. At the end of the installation, create a boot disk.

5. Completing the Installation—Configure the X Window System. This is the X configuration used when you reboot the system after the installation finishes. You have to identify your video card, monitor, select your GUI (GNOME or KDE), and indicate whether you want a graphical or text login screen.

If you have all configuration information handy (such as video card, monitor, network card details, IP addresses, and host names for the TCP/IP network configuration) and all goes well, installing Red Hat Linux from the companion CD-ROM on a fast Pentium PC should take approximately an hour (assuming that you select nearly all packages). For example, on 1 GHz Pentium PC with 128MB RAM and a 6GB-disk partition devoted to Linux, the entire installation took about an hour.

Secret

The Red Hat installer uses kudzu (a utility program) to probe—attempt to determine the presence of—specific hardware, and tailors the installation steps accordingly. For example, if the installation program detects a network card, the program automatically displays the screens on which you can configure the TCP/IP network. Therefore, you may see some variation in the sequence of steps, depending on your specific hardware configuration.

Kudzu is a configuration program as well as library of object code that can probe and determine what hardware is installed on your system. The anaconda installation program uses kudzu to detect hardware during installation.

To learn more about kudzu, visit Red Hat’s kudzu website at http://rhlinux. redhat.com/kudzu/.

The following sections describe each of the Red Hat Linux installation phases in detail.

Getting Ready to Install

In this phase, you perform the following steps before moving on to disk setup and the actual installation of Linux:

1. A text screen appears with a welcome message and a prompt. Press Enter to begin installing in GUI mode or type linux text to install in text mode. If you have a SCSI controller or network card that the Linux kernel may not automatically detect, you should type linux noprobe to manually install the hardware (in this case, you have to select the hardware from a list or provide a driver disk; see Appendix B for more information on setting up SCSI controllers). Typically, you press Enter to continue the installation in GUI mode.

2. The installation program starts the X Window System and displays a list of languages to be used during the installation. The list includes languages such as English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, and Ukrainian. Use your mouse to select the language you want to use for the installation screens, then click the Next button to continue.

   In the graphical mode installation, each screen has online help available on the left side of the screen. You can read the help message to learn more about what you are supposed to select in a specific screen.

3. The installation program displays a list of keyboard layouts. Select a keyboard layout suitable for your language’s character set (for example, U.S. English in the United States).

   Note that you can always reconfigure your keyboard after finishing the installation. Simply log in as root at a text console (you can get one by pressing, for example, Ctrl-Alt-F2) and type setup. This runs a text-mode setup utility that enables you to configure, among other things, the keyboard, the mouse, and the printer.

4. The installation program displays a screen from which you configure the mouse in your system. The various mouse types are listed in a tree structure organized alphabetically by manufacturer. You need to know your mouse type and whether or not it is connected to the PC’s serial port or the PS/2 port (this uses a small round connector). If your mouse type appears in the list, select it. Otherwise, select a generic mouse type. Most new PCs have a PS/2 mouse. Finally, for a two-button mouse, you should select the Emulate 3 Buttons option. Because many X applications assume that you are using a three-button mouse, go ahead and select this option. On a typical two-button mouse, you can simulate a middle-button click by pressing both buttons simultaneously. On a Microsoft Intellimouse, the wheel acts as the middle button.

   If you select a mouse with a serial interface, you have to specify the serial port where the mouse is connected. For COM1, specify /dev/ttyS0 as the device; for COM2, the device name is /dev/ttyS1.

5. 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 installations simplify the installation process by partitioning the disk in a predefined manner. The Personal Desktop installation creates a Red Hat Linux system for home, laptop, or desktop use. A graphical environment is installed along with productivity applications.

   A Workstation installation installs graphical environment as well as software development tools. This type of installation also deletes all currently existing Linux-related partitions and creates a set of new partitions for Linux. A Server installation deletes all existing disk partitions, including any existing Windows partitions, and creates a whole slew of Linux partitions. By default, the Server installation does not install the graphical environment, but you can always add the packages for the GUI desktops. For maximum flexibility, select the Custom installation, but note that the other installation types can be easier because many choices are already made for you.

   Caution

   Do not select the Server installation if you want to retain any existing Windows partitions.

The next major phase of installation involves partitioning the hard disk for use in Linux.

Partitioning and Using the Hard Disk

Like Windows, Linux requires you to partition and prepare a hard disk before you can install Red Hat Linux. You usually do not perform this step; when you buy your PC from a vendor, the vendor takes care of preparing the hard disk and installing Windows and all other applications on the hard disk. Because you are installing Red Hat Linux from scratch, however, you have to perform this crucial step yourself. As you see in the following sections, this task is just a matter of following instructions.

When the Red Hat Linux installation program reaches the disk-partitioning phase, it displays a screen from which you can select a partitioning strategy. The screen gives you three options for partitioning and using the hard disk:

• Automatically partition: This option causes the Red Hat installation program to create new partitions for installing Linux, based on your installation type, such as workstation or server. After the automatic partitioning, you get a chance to customize the partitions. This is the option most users choose.

• Manually partition with Disk Druid: With this option, you can use the Disk Druid program that lets you partition the disk any way you want and, at the same time, specify which parts of the Linux file system are to be loaded on which partition.

From the disk-partitioning strategy screen, select the Automatically partition option to have the installer automatically partition the disk for you. The Red Hat Linux installation program, then displays another screen (see Figure 2-2) that asks you how you want the automatic partitioning to be done.

Figure 2-2: Selecting Automatic Partitioning Options during Red Hat Linux Installation.

As Figure 2-2 shows, you can select from three automatic partitioning options:

• Remove all Linux partitions on this system—This option causes the Red Hat installation program to remove all existing Linux partitions and to create new partitions for installing Red Hat Linux. You can use this option if you already have Linux installed on your PC and want to wipe it out and install the latest version of Red Hat Linux.

• Remove all partitions on this system—This option is similar to the first option, except that the installation program removes all partitions, including those used by other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows.

• Keep all partitions and use existing free space—If you have created space for Linux by using PartitionMagic or the FIPS utility, select this option to create the Linux partitions using the free space on the hard disk. If you are installing Red Hat Linux on a new PC after resizing the partition, this is the option to choose.

Select the appropriate option, and click Next. For example, if you select the first option, the Red Hat Linux installation program displays a dialog to confirm your choice and to point out that all data in the existing Linux partitions will be lost. Click Yes to continue. In the next screen (see Figure 2-3) the installer shows the partitions it has prepared. The exact appearance of this screen depends on your hard disk’s capacity and its current partitions.

Figure 2-3: Partitions Automatically Created by the Red Hat Linux Installer.

The screen displays the disk drives and the current partition information for the drives. If you want to accept the partitions as is, click Next to proceed.

You can also perform specific disk-setup tasks through the six buttons that run across the middle of the screen. Specifically, the buttons perform the following actions:

• New lets you create a new partition, assuming there is enough free disk space available to create a partition. When you click this button, another dialog box appears, in which you can fill in information necessary to create a partition.

• Edit lets you alter the attributes of the partition currently highlighted in the partitions list. You make changes to the current attribute in another dialog box that appears when you click the Edit button.

• Delete is used to delete the partition currently highlighted in the partitions list.

• Reset causes the installation program to ignore any changes you may have made.

• RAID is used to set up a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) device—a technique that combines multiple disks to improve reliability and data transfer rates. There are several types of RAID configurations. You have to select at least two partitions to make a RAID device.

• LVM creates a logical volume for Logical Volume Management (LVM).

For this discussion, I assume that the installer-created partitions are acceptable and that you click Next to continue with the installation.

Configuring Red Hat Linux

When the installation program finishes loading all of the selected packages, it moves on to some configuration steps. The typical configuration steps are as follows:

• Install boot loader

• Configure the network

• Configure the firewall

• Select languages to support

• Set the time zone

• Set the root password

• Configure password authentication

The following sections describe each of these configuration steps.

Installing a Boot Loader

You can install one of two boot loaders—GRUB or LILO. GRUB stands for Grand Unified Bootloader, and LILO stands for Linux Loader—each of these boot loader programs can reside on your hard disk, and each can start Linux when you power up your PC. If you have Microsoft Windows on your hard disk, you can configure the boot loader to load Windows as well. You perform this step from the boot loader installation screen (see Figure 2-4).

Figure 2-4: Selecting and Configuring a Boot Loader.

The boot loader installation screen (see Figure 2-4) shows you information about the boot loader to be installed and the partitions from which that the boot loader boots the PC. You also get a chance to change the boot loader or add other partitions that contain non-Linux operating systems.

GRUB is the default boot loader, and it’s installed by default in the master boot record (MBR) of the hard disk. If you want to change the boot loader from GRUB to LILO or not install it at all, click the “Change boot loader” button near the top of the window. From the dialog box that appears, either select the older LILO boot loader or skip the boot loader installation entirely. If you choose not to install any boot loader, you should definitely create a boot disk later on. Otherwise, you won’t be able to start Red Hat Linux when you reboot the PC. You get a chance to create the boot disk at the very end of the installation.

In the middle of the boot loader installation screen a table lists the disk partitions from which the boot loader can boot the PC. That table lists the Linux partition and any other partitions that may contain another operating system (such as Windows XP or 2000). Each entry in that table is an operating system that the boot loader can load and start. The default operating system is the one with a check mark in the Default column.

Secret

You must assign a label to the Windows XP partition that appears in the list of partitions—click that line and enter the label. If there is no label, GRUB will not display that partition as a choice in its boot screen, and you won’t be able to boot Windows XP after you finish installing Red Hat Linux.

If GRUB fails to detect and list an existing Windows XP partition in the list, you should click the Add button and fill in the information about the Windows XP partition, as shown in Figure 2-5. Typically, the Windows XP partition should be the /dev/hda2 device (the first partition—/dev/hda1—is usually a hidden partition that holds files used to install Windows XP).

Figure 2-5: Adding a Windows XP Partition to the List of Partitions to Boot.

If you forget to enter a label for the Windows XP partition or add the XP partition to the list, that does not mean that all is lost. The XP partition is still there on the hard disk. It’s just that GRUB does not show it as an option to boot from. To fix the problem, you have to manually edit the GRUB configuration file, /etc/grub.conf. See Appendix B for information on configuring bootloaders such as GRUB and LILO. After you fix the /etc/grub.conf file, you should get the option to boot XP from the initial GRUB screen the next time you reboot the PC.

If you decide to install the GRUB bootloader, consider adding a password for GRUB. Click the “Use a boot loader password” check box and make sure that a check mark appears there. The installer displays a dialog box where you can specify a password for GRUB. With a GRUB password, your system is more secure because no one can boot your system without a password given that GRUB will not load the operating system without the password.

If you select the “Configure advanced boot loader options” check box and click Next, the installer displays the Advanced Boot Loader Configuration screen, as shown in Figure 2-6.

Figure 2-6: Selecting Where to Install Boot Loader and Providing Kernel Options.

The screen of Figure 2-6 gives you the option to install the boot loader in one of two locations:

• Master Boot Record (MBR), which is located in the first sector of your PC’s hard disk (the C drive)

• First sector of the Linux boot partition

You can also add any necessary boot options in the text field labeled “General kernel parameters.” These are options passed to the kernel as the system boots.

You should install the boot loader in the Master Boot Record unless you are using another operating system loader, such as BootMagic or Windows NT/2000/XP Boot Manager. After making your selections for the boot loader, click Next to continue.

Configuring the Firewall

In this step, you configure the built-in packet filter that comes with Red Hat Linux and that enables you to control how various types of IP packets are handled. You can select a predefined level of security from the Firewall Configuration screen (see Figure 2-7), and customize these security levels to suit your needs.

Figure 2-7: Setting up the Packet Filtering Firewall Built into Your System.

The installer offers the following predefined security levels:

• High security means that your system does not accept any connections other than those that you explicitly enable. By default, a system with high security accepts only Domain Name Service (DNS) requests and DHCP requests.

• Medium security means that the system does not accept any connection requests for ports numbered 1023 and lower, or connections to the NFS server at port 2049, remote connections to the X Window System, and the X Font Server port.

• No firewall security means your system accepts connections at all ports and does not perform any security checking. Use this option only if your system runs in a trusted network, if it is already inside a firewall, or if you plan to set up a more elaborate firewall configuration later on.

  Insider Insight

  Think about how you plan to use the Red Hat Linux system before selecting a predefined security level. For example, if you plan to use the system as a boot server on an internal network, you have to set the security level to No firewall security. Otherwise, the other PCs on the network cannot download the kernel using TFTP. If one of your system’s network interface such as eth0 is only connected to your trusted internal network, you can indicate eth0 as a trusted device. If you do not configure the firewall correctly here, you can do so late ron by following instructions outlined in Chapter 22.

After you select a predefined security level, you can click the Customize button and select other services that you might want to enable. When you’re done configuring the firewall, click the Next button to proceed to the next step.

Selecting the Package Groups to Install

After you complete the key configuration steps, the installation program displays a message about reading package information and, after a short while, shows a screen (see Figure 2-8) from which you can select the Red Hat Linux package groups you want to install.

Figure 2-8: Selecting Package Groups to Install.

After you select the package groups, you can take a coffee break, and the Red Hat installation program can format the disk partitions and copy all selected files to those partitions.

As Figure 2-8 shows, the package groups are organized into broad categories such as Desktops, Applications, Servers, and so on. Within each category, each package group is shown with a label, an icon, a brief description, and a check box. To select a package group, you should click on the check box so that a check mark appears in the box. As you select package groups, the installer shows the total disk space needed for the installation.

Some of the package groups are already selected, as indicated by the check marks in the check boxes. You can think of the selected package groups as the minimal set of packages recommended by Red Hat for installation for the type of installation (personal desktop, workstation, server, or custom) you have chosen. You can, however, choose to install any or all of the components. Use the mouse to move up and down in the scrolling list and click the mouse on a check box to select or deselect that package group.

Secret

In an actual production installation of Red Hat Linux, you should install exactly those package groups that you need. However, when you are trying to learn everything about Red Hat Linux, you need many different packages. If you have enough disk space (at least 6GB) for the Linux partition, go ahead and select the package group labeled Everything—this installs all the package groups. Being able to install everything makes it easy for you to try out everything. Note that Everything is much more than the package groups that you see listed during installation—everything includes nearly all the packages on the companion CD-ROMs.

I must repeat that you should install Everything only when you are trying to play with all the packages on a system that is specifically meant for experimenting with Red Hat Linux. Do not install Everything on a system that will be used for anything critical. Installing everything is likely to open up too many security holes in your system.

Table 2-2 shows the package groups organized by the categories as they appear on the Package Group Selection screen. In addition to these user-selectable package groups, the Red Hat installation program automatically installs a number of packages needed to run Linux and the applications you select. In other words, even if you do not select any of the package groups, the installation program installs a number of packages needed simply to run the core Linux operating system and a minimal set of utilities.

If you are installing Linux for the first time, you do not need to go down to this level of detail to install specific packages. Simply pick the package groups you think you need from Table 2-2. If you forget something, you can always install additional packages later with the RPM utility program or the graphical Red Hat Package Management utility, described in Chapter 21. 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	Description
Desktops
X Window System	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
GNOME Desktop Environment	Packages for the GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) graphical desktop, including the Nautilus graphical shell
KDE Desktop Environment	Packages for the KDE—K Desktop Environment—another graphical desktop for Linux
Applications
Editors	Text editors such as Emacs and vi
Engineering and Scientific	Packages such as blas, octave, and gnuplot for performing math and science computations and plotting
Graphical Internet	Graphical email, Web, chat, and instant messaging clients included in packages such as evolution, mozilla, xchat, and gaim
Text-based Internet	Text-based email, Web, FTP, and news reader clients included in packages such as pine, lynx, xchat, ncftp, and slrn
Office/Productivity	Office suites, PDF viewers, and more in packages such as openoffice, abiword, xpdf, koffice, and kghostview
Sound and Video	Multimedia applications for tasks such as playing audio CDs and burning CDs in packages such as cdda2wav, cdp, cdrecord, dvdrecord, grip, xcdroast, and xmms
Authoring and Publishing	Tools to create documentation in TeX (pronounced “tech”) and DocBook document-formatting system, provided in packages such as docbook-utils, tetex-latex, and xmlto
Graphics	Packages such as xsane, gimp, ImageMagick, and gtkam to scan and manipulate images and work with digital camera
Games and Entertainment	A number of computer games provided in packages such as Maelstrom, gnome-games, and kdegames
Servers
Server Configuration Tools	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
Web Server	Packages such as httpd, php, mod_perl, mod_ssl, and php-pgsql needed to run the Apache Web server
Mail Server	Packages such as sendmail, imap, and sendmail-cf used to set up a mail server
Servers
Windows File Server	Samba and other supporting packages needed to use the Linux PC as a LAN Manager server
DNS Name Server	The bind and caching-nameserver packages needed to provide Domain Name Service (DNS) on the Red Hat Linux system
FTP Server	The vsftpd and anonftp packages needed to run an FTP server
SQL Database 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
News Server	The inn package for setting up an Internet News server
Network Servers	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
Development
Development Tools	Software development tools in packages such as gcc, gcc-c++, gcc-java, gdb, perl-CPAN, python-devel, cvs, rcs, and so on
Kernel Development	The kernel-source package and other libraries needed to rebuild the kernel
X Software Development	Packages such as XFree86-devel, lesstif-devel, and openmotif-devel needed to develop GUI applications for the X Window System
GNOME Software Development	Packages such as gtk+-devel, gtk2-devel, libgnome-devel, and bonobo-devel needed to develop GTK+ and GNOME graphical applications
KDE Software Development	Packages such as PyQt-devel, kdebase-devel, kdelibs-devel, qt-designer, and qt-devel needed to develop QT and KDE graphical applications
System
Administration Tools	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-root BackCover Red Hat Linux 9 Professional Secrets Introduction Conventions Used in This Book About the Companion CD-ROMs Reach Out Acknowledgments Part I: Setting Up Red Hat Linux Chapter 1: An Overview of Red Hat Linux What Is Red Hat Linux? Linux as a UNIX Platform Linux Desktop Linux Networking Linux System Administration Windows and Linux Software Development in Linux Linux as an Internet On-Ramp Summary Chapter 2: Red Hat Linux Installation Understanding the Red Hat Linux Installation Process Preparing Your PC for Linux Installation Booting the Red Hat Linux Installer Installing from the Red Hat Linux CD-ROM Troubleshooting the Installation Using Boot Commands during Installation Learning Other Installation Methods Using kickstart Installation Installing Red Hat Linux on a Laptop Summary Chapter 3: 3X Window System Setup Understanding Video Cards and Monitors Understanding the X Window System Setting up X on Red Hat Linux Running X Summary Chapter 4: Printer Setup Configuring CUPS Print Queues Learning the Printing Commands Understanding the CUPS Printing System Summary Chapter 5: Sound Setup Sound Cards Supported by Red Hat Linux Configuring the Sound Card Learning Sound Device Names Testing the Sound Card Playing Audio CD-ROMs Troubleshooting Sound Cards Summary Chapter 6: Network Setup Networking Basics TCP/IP and the Internet TCP/IP Services and Client/Server Architecture TCP/IP Setup in Linux TCP/IP Network Diagnostics Summary Part II: Exploring Red Hat Linux Chapter 7: Red Hat Linux Basics Starting Red Hat Linux for the First Time Looking up Online Documentation Understanding the Linux File System Using the Nautilus Shell Navigating the File System with Linux Commands Learning the Bash Shell Summary Chapter 8: GNU Utilities An Overview of GNU Software Shell Utilities File Utilities and the find Command Text Utilities Binary Utilities Other Utilities Stream Editor - sed Summary Chapter 9: GUI Desktops Setting up a Graphical Login Using GNOME Using KDE Summary Chapter 10: Red Hat Linux Applications and Utilities Applications on the Companion CD-ROMs Editors Office Tools Graphics and Images Summary Chapter 11: Text Processing Text Editing with ed and vi Working with GNU Emacs Writing Man Pages with groff Preparing Documentation with DocBook Summary Chapter 12: Basic System Administration Revisiting Linux System Administration Becoming root Managing User Accounts Exploring the Start Here Window Managing the File System Using mtools Summary Part III: Internetworking with Red Hat Linux Chapter 13: Internet Connection Setup Deciding How to Connect to the Internet Setting Up IEEE 802.11b Wireless Ethernet Networks Learning the Basics of Dial-Up Networking Using IP Masquerading to Share an Internet Connection Setting Up a PPP Server Summary Chapter 14: Web Server Discovering the World Wide Web Surfing the Net Setting Up the Apache Web Server Using Java Servlets with Apache Creating a Secure Server with SSL Summary Chapter 15: Mail Server Installing Mail Software Understanding Electronic Mail Using sendmail Summary Chapter 16: News Server Using Simple News Strategies Installing News Software Understanding Newsgroups Configuring and Starting the INN Server Setting Up Local Newsgroups Summary Chapter 17: FTP Server Installing FTP Software Understanding FTP Configuring the FTP Server Setting up Secure Anonymous FTP Summary Chapter 18: DNS and NIS Using the Domain Name System (DNS) Using Network Information Service (NIS) Summary Chapter 19: Samba and NFS Sharing Files with NFS Setting Up a Windows Server Using Samba Summary Part IV: Managing Red Hat Linux Chapter 20: Advanced System Administration Understanding How Red Hat Linux Boots Scheduling Jobs in Red Hat Linux Backing Up and Restoring Files Managing Devices Monitoring System Performance Summary Chapter 21: Software Installation and Update Working with the Red Hat Package Manager Building Software Packages from Source Files Installing SRPMS Upgrading Red Hat Linux with the Update Agent Upgrading and Customizing the Linux Kernel Summary Chapter 22: System and Network Security Establishing a Security Framework Securing Red Hat Linux Securing the Host Securing the Network Performing Security Audits Keeping up with Security News and Updates Summary Part V: Programming Red Hat Linux Chapter 23: Software Development in Linux Software Development Tools in Linux The GNU Debugger Implications of GNU Licenses Version Control Linux Programming Topics Summary Chapter 24: Shell and Perl Scripting Looking at Some Shell Scripts Learning the Basics of Shell Scripting in Bash Perl as a Scripting Language Summary Chapter 25: Tcl/Tk Scripting Introducing Tcl Introducing Tk Summary Chapter 26: Java Programming Getting Ready for Java Programming Writing Your First Java Program Learning Java Writing GUI Applications in Java Writing Java Servlets Becoming Proficient in Java Summary Part VI: Appendixes Appendix A: Linux Commands apropos bg cal cat cd chattr chgrp chmod chown chsh compress cp cpio cut date dd df diff du expand fdformat fdisk fg file find fold free fsck grep groups gunzip gzip halt id info kill ldd less ln locate lpr ls lsof man mkdir mkfs mknod mkswap more mount mv nice nl passwd paste patch printenv ps pstree pwd reboot rm rmdir sed shutdown sort split su swapoff swapon sync tac tail tar top touch tr tty type umount unalias uname uncompress uniq wc whatis whereis which zcat, zless, zmore Appendix B: Disk Drives Disk Drive Concepts Floppy Disks in Linux Hard Disk Operations in Linux SCSI Disk Controllers and Linux Appendix C: CD-ROM Drives Supported CD-ROM Drives CD-ROM Troubleshooting Appendix D: Ethernet Cards Supported Ethernet Cards Ethernet Driver Modules Ethernet Autoprobing Multiple Ethernet Cards Appendix E: Modems and Terminals Modems Linux and Modems Setting up Linux for Dial-In Terminals and Multiport Serial Boards Appendix F: PC Cards PCMCIA Card Services for Linux Appendix G: Linux Resources Newsgroups FTP Archive Sites Magazines Appendix H: About the CD-ROMs System Requirements CD-ROM Installation Instructions What's on the CD-ROMs Source Code Coupon Troubleshooting List of Figures List of Tables List of Code Examples List of Sidebars Remember the name: eTutorials.org Copyright eTutorials.org 2008-2023. 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