270 Part III . Choosing (Best web hosting) and Installing a
270 Part III . Choosing and Installing a Linux Distribution Changing Your Boot Loader If you don t want to use the GRUB boot loader, or if you tried out LILO and want to switch back to GRUB, it s not hard to change to a different boot loader on Linux distributions that support both boot loaders. To switch your boot loader from GRUB to LILO, do the following: 1. Configure the /etc/lilo.conf file as described in the Booting Your Computer with LILO section. (On Fedora systems, you can use the contents of /etc/ lilo.conf.anaconda to start.) 2. As root user from a Terminal window, type the following: # lilo 3. The new Master Boot Record is written, including the entries in /etc/ lilo.conf. 4. Reboot your computer. You should see the LILO boot screen. To change your boot loader from LILO to GRUB, do the following: 1. Configure the /boot/grub/grub.conf file as described in the Booting Your Computer with GRUB section. 2. You need to know the device on which you want to install GRUB. For example, to install GRUB on the master boot record of the first disk, type the following as root user from a Terminal window: # grub-install /dev/hda The new Master Boot Record is written to boot with the GRUB boot loader. 3. Reboot your computer. You should see the GRUB boot screen. Configuring Networking If you are connecting your computer to an Ethernet LAN that has a DHCP server available, you probably don t need to do anything to start up automatically on your LAN and probably be connected to the Internet. However, if there is no DHCP server on your LAN and you have to configure your TCP/IP connection manually, here is the information you will probably be prompted for during Linux installation: . IP Address If you set your own IP address, this is the four-part, dot-separated number that represents your computer to the network. How IP addresses are formed and how you choose them is more than can be said in a few sentences (see Chapter 5 for a more complete description). An example of a private IP address is 192.168.0.1. . Netmask The netmask is used to determine what part of an IP address represents the network and what part represents a particular host computer. An example of a netmask for a Class C network is 255.255.255.0. Applying this
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