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Installation Stage 5: The Point of No Return
The instructions described in this chapter, if you have been following along, have not yet resulted in making any permanent changes to your computer. Your selections haven’t been written in stone, so to speak. No partitions have been erased. No Red Hat Linux packages have been written to your hard drive either. You can stop the installation process and go back to your good old computer by clicking the Back button.Make your decision whether to proceed. Take a deep breath and follow these instructions to install Red Hat Linux on your computer:Click the Next button. If you're using this book's DVDs, then the installation process begins. When it is finished, go to step 4.
If you're using the CD-ROM discs, the Install Media dialog box opens. (You're also informed which discs you will need.) Go to step 2; you can click the Reboot button if you want to abort the installation process.
Click the Continue button to start the installation from the CD-ROM.
Your disk partitions are created and formatted, and then the Red Hat Linux distribution is written to it.
Yikes! The Installing Packages window (see Figure 3-4) tells you which package is being installed in addition to how many have been installed, how many remain to be installed, and the estimated time remaining.Remember The process takes several minutes if you have the latest, greatest high-speed computer and DVD/CD-ROM drive. Otherwise, plan to spend 20 to 40 minutes — or longer — for older equipment.
After installing Red Hat Linux on your computer, the installer asks whether you want to create a boot disk.
This option helps you create a floppy disk that you can use to boot your computer just in case something happens to the boot partition on your disk. Microsoft products, for example, have a bad habit of overwriting the master boot record (MBR) — and therefore your Red Hat Linux booting system — when they’re installed or even updated. Hard drive boot failures can also happen for any number of reasons — aliens and gremlins are well known for wreaking havoc. The boot disk is a great tool for foiling these dastardly mischief-makers.Remember This boot disk is different from the one you use to start the Red Hat Linux installation. You can use the boot floppy to start your Red Hat Linux computer in case the Red Hat Linux boot information stored on your hard drive ever becomes corrupted.
Figure 3-4: The installing Packages window.
(Optional) Insert a blank disk into your main floppy drive, select the Create Boot Floppy option, and click Next to create a boot disk.
The Congratulations window opens. It provides you with information about where to find Red Hat Linux information.
Remove the DVD-ROM (or CD-ROM or floppy disk) from the computer and click the Exit button.
Your computer reboots. Consult the following section to finish the installation.
