[RHCE] First topic: Hardware and Installation

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 14:00, Jon Carnes wrote:
> Does anyone object to just jumping in and talking about the first topic
> (ala Scott Stancil's draft web outline for study)?  

Not all by me. :-)  Several comments inline.

> Hardware and Installation
> 
>     * Partitioning (fdisk, utils to repartition existing)
>     * Boot loaders (lilo/grub and config files)
>     * Boot messages
>     * System startup scripts, /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
>     * System runlevels
>     * System config files (xinetd, rc scripts, 
>       /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, shell config scripts)...
> 
> Talking about organization is a lot of fun and all that, but I want to
> see how well this co-operative-at-a-distance-learning thing really
> works.
> 
> ===
> 
> I don't think we will need to know hardware compatibility for all
> hardware, but we might need to know where to look for hardware
> compatibility:
> http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/

This site is somewhat out of date -- most of it was last updated in 2001
:(  I don't know what Red Hat doesn't work harder on this, it seems like
it would help a lot to show that RHL is compatible with newer hardware.

> And how to find out existing Hardware Information - Red Hat has a
> chapter on using an existing Windows install to mine for System
> Information:
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/install-guide/ch-x86-table.html

That's definitely useful.
 
> I imagine that we'll need know how to install RH8.0 various ways, like:
>  - boot from CD
>  - boot from local diskette
>  - boot from USB diskette
>  - ftp install
>  - nfs install
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/install-guide/s1-steps-install-cdrom.html

Plus all the kickstart stuff, or is that a later meeting/topic ?