Web design tools - Chapter 8 . Running Fedora Core and Red
Chapter 8 . Running Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 275 Red Hat Installer (Anaconda) When many Linux distributions still had you struggling from the command line to get the distribution installed, Red Hat created its own installer called Anaconda. Anaconda includes both graphical and text-based procedures for installing Linux. When you re done installing Red Hat Linux, you have the following: . A set of software packages installed that suits how you want to use your computer (as a desktop, workstation, server, or some custom configuration). . Standard information, such as date, time, time zone, and language set. . A configured mouse, keyboard, video card, and monitor. . An appropriately partitioned hard disk. . A configured network card and firewall, to immediately connect to a LAN. . A configured boot loader, to define how Linux starts up. Besides being fairly intuitive to use, Anaconda is loaded with features to make it easy to manage the installation of many Red Hat systems. For example, these power features are built into the Anaconda installer: . Network installs After booting the install process, the actual Fedora or RHEL distribution can be on a network server that is accessible via a Web server (http), FTP server (ftp), or UNIX file server (NFS). . Kickstart installs It s not so bad to sit there and click through the answers to run the installation of one Fedora Core system, but if you re doing dozens or hundreds of installs (especially on similar computers), automating that task can be a major time-saver. Anaconda supports kickstart installs, for which you use a preconfigured kickstart file to answer the questions that come up during a Red Hat installation. If you answer all the questions in the file, you can launch the installation and have it run from start to finish without you in attendance. . Upgrades With an existing Fedora system installed, Anaconda enables you to easily upgrade to a newer Fedora system. A lot of nice features for saving backups of configuration files and logging the upgrade activities are built into that process. During an upgrade, Anaconda takes into consideration any dependency issues, so the upgraded software packages will have all the libraries and commands that the features in those packages need. You ll find a detailed description of installing Fedora using the Anaconda installer at the end of this chapter.
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