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Congratulations! Your Red Hat Linux 7.1 installation is now complete!
The installation program will prompt you to prepare your system for
reboot. Do not forget to remove any diskette in the diskette drive
or CD in the CD-ROM drive.
If you did not install LILO, you will need to use your boot disk now.
After your computer's normal power-up sequence has completed, you should
see LILO's GUI prompt, at which you can do any of the following things:
Press [Enter] — causes LILO's default boot entry
to be booted.
Select a boot label, followed by [Enter] — causes
LILO to boot the operating system corresponding to the boot label.
(Press [?] at the LILO:
for a list of valid boot labels.)
Do nothing — after LILO's timeout period, (by default, five
seconds) LILO will automatically boot the default boot entry.
Do whatever is appropriate to boot Red Hat Linux. You should see one or more
screens of messages scroll by. Eventually, you should see a
login: prompt or a GUI login screen (if you installed
the X Window System and chose to start X automatically).
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| | If for some reason you need to disable the graphical boot screen, you
can do so by editing the lilo.conf file and then
rerunning LILO.
To do this, become root and then comment out (or delete) the line
which reads message=/boot/message in
the lilo.conf file. To comment a line out, insert
the # character at the beginning of
the line. Once you have done this, rerun LILO. To rerun LILO, type
/sbin/lilo -v. The next time you boot, you will see
the text LILO: prompt, as is seen in previous Red Hat Linux
releases.
You can re-enable the graphical boot screen by adding the above line
back into the lilo.conf file and rerunning
LILO.
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| | If you are not sure what to do next, we suggest you begin with the
Official Red Hat Linux Getting Started Guide (available online at http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals
if not included as part of your boxed set), which covers topics
relating to the basics of your system and is an introduction to using
Red Hat Linux.
If you are a more experienced user looking for information on
administration topics, you may find the Official Red Hat Linux Reference Guide
to be more helpful.
If you are looking for information on system configuration, you may find the
Official Red Hat Linux Customization Guide to be helpful. |
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