Introduction
Welcome to the Official Red Hat Linux Customization Guide.
The Official Red Hat Linux Customization Guide contains information on how to
customize your Red Hat Linux system to fit your needs. If you are looking for a
step-by-step, task-oriented guide for configuring and customizing your
system, this is the manual for you. This manual discusses many
intermediate topics such as the following:
Setting up a network interface card (NIC)
Performing a Kickstart installation
Configuring Samba shares
Managing your software with RPM
Determining information about your system
Upgrading your kernel
This manual is divided into the following main categories:
This guide assumes you have a basic understanding of your Red Hat Linux system.
If you need reference material which covers more basic issues such as
configuring your desktop or playing audio CD-ROMs, please refer to the
Official Red Hat Linux Getting Started Guide. If you need more advanced documentation
such as an overview of the Red Hat Linux filesystem, please refer to the
Official Red Hat Linux Reference Guide.
HTML and PDF versions of the Official Red Hat Linux manuals are available on the
Documentation CD and online at http://www.redhat.com/docs/.
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you should read the Red Hat Linux Release Notes for
information that may not have been available prior to our documentation
being finalized. They can be found on the Red Hat Linux CD #1 and online
at: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux |
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Changes to This Manual
This manual has been expanded to include new features in Red Hat Linux 8.0
as well as topics requested by our readers. Significant changes to this
manual include:
- File Systems
New to this version is a file systems part. It discusses ext3,
swap space, RAID, LVM, and managing disk storage with
parted.
- Kickstart
The kickstart options have been updated to include the new
options in Red Hat Linux 8.0, and the Kickstart
Configurator chapter has been updated to include
many new features.
- LVM Configuration
This new chapter discusses how to configure LVM during
installation.
- Network Configuration
The network configuration chapter now includes information on
network profiles and network aliases.
- Basic Firewall Configuration
This chapter includes the new
Security Level Configuration Tool.
- Network File System (NFS)
This chapter now includes how to export directories using the
NFS Server Configuration Tool.
- Apache HTTP Server
Both Apache HTTP Server chapters have been updated for version 2.0.
- Console Access
How to use the pam_timestamp module has
been added.
- Log Files
This new chapter contains information on how to examine log
files with the Log Viewer.
- Package Management Tool
The Gnome-RPM application has been
replaced with Package Management Tool, which this
new chapter discusses.
