If you have the Official Red Hat Linux boxed set, remember to take a look through
the Red Hat Linux 7.2 Documentation CD. All of our manuals are on this
CD, as well as other useful resources. Inserting the Documentation CD
in the CD-ROM drive should automatically open the file manager (Obviously,
you will need to be logged in to do this. See Chapter 1
for information on how to log in). If the
file manager does not open automatically after a minute or so, right-click
on the CD-ROM icon on your desktop and select Mount
Device or Mount, whichever appears on the
pop-up menu.
When the file manager opens, click on RH-DOCS in the
left window. On the right, you will see several files. There are three
ways to view the manuals:
View in PDF format.
You will see one file whose name starts with the letters "pdf". Click on this to view the
manuals in PDF format.
Install the manuals on your computer.
Files beginning with the letters "rhl" can be installed on
your system. To do this, select the /cdrom/RedHat directory in
the left window of the file manager. Expand the folder (click on the +
sign) and then click on RPMS beneath it. You will see a variety of
documentation files on the right.
Scroll through the right side of the file manager screen and look for
files beginning with the letters "rhl" (as shown in
Figure 4. There will be one file for each of
our four manuals. The file names contain the abbreviations IG, RG, CG, and
GSG, corresponding to the Installation, Reference, Customization, and
Getting Started guides respectively.
Now, open a terminal by clicking on the Terminal Emulation
Program button on the panel at the bottom of your desktop.
Type the following at the command line:
Now press [Enter]. You will be asked for your root password.
Enter the password at the command line and press [Enter].
You are now logged in as root. To install all four manuals, type the following:
Press [Enter].
If you only want to install certain manuals, replace "rhl-*.rpm" with the full
file name (as shown in the right window of the file manager) of the manual
that you want to install. For example, the file name for the Official Red Hat Linux Getting Started Guide will look
something like rhl-gsg-en-7.2-5.noarch.rpm, so you would type the
following to install the Official Red Hat Linux Getting Started Guide on your computer:
rpm -ivh rhl-gsg-en-7.2-5.noarch.rpm |
Press [Enter]. Type exit at the
command line and press [Enter]. This takes you out of the
root login and back to your user account.
Now go to
=> =>
=> and
select the manual you want to open. It will automatically open in a Web browser.
View manuals online (HTML).
Look under RH-DOCS in the file manager tree.
The file that ends with the letters "html" opens
the manuals for viewing in a Web browser without installing them on your system.
Double-click on the .html file in the file manager and you will see a screen
with links to all of the manuals. At the bottom of this page, there is a
link to the opening page of the documentation CD. The opening page has
links to a variety of Linux documentation resources.
Of course, you can also go to http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals and bookmark
the site. All of the manuals are available there in PDF and HTML format.
