Felitaur Enterprises Linux System Administration | Felitaur Enterprises Homepage Instructions for Switching To Different types of computers (Say from classroom to lab, or from home to MCC)

1. Start Normal Bootup
2. NOTE: If you do not have the same setup at home you will have to determine what to type at the boot: prompt.
   • Our set up at school assumes that the root partition is on /dev/hdd1
   • Drive letters go as follows
     • /dev/hda is the "master" drive on ide cable 0
     • /dev/hdb is the "slave" drive on ide cable 0
     • (ide cable 0 is usually where you HD is installed)
     • /dev/hdc is the "master drive on ide cable 1
     • /dev/hdd is the "slave" drive on ide cable 1
     • (ide cable 1 is usually where your cdrom drives are attached)
   • so, after figuring out what you have at home you will need to type
   • boot: linux root=/dev/hdx1
   • where x is the appropriate drive letter
3. Make Sure to hit enter when it says "start kudzu" (you have 30 seconds)
4. Just hit enter and agree with kudzu
5. After kudzu, xwindows may not be working, so you may need to do the following
6. Temporarily Log in as root (or use su command)
7. Type redhat-config-xfree86 or
   redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig
8. Just hit enter for most of the screens until you get the choose screen resolution screen
9. Tab over to 24 bit color and use the arrow keys to move down and choose 1024x768 with the space bar, tab to "ok" and hit enter (This is the school setting, it may vary at home)
10. It will then tell you that it will test X
11. Click on the "yes" if you can see the screen come up ok
12. ***IMPORTANT***Click "NO" on the second popup as you do NOT want a graphical login (or make sure you have it set to text only, the configuration tool keeps changing)
13. If something goes wrong, you will have to Fix Xwindows
14. exit from root
15. log in as a user, type startx
16. NOTE: If you have a size issue with netscape, click and drag netscape by the blue bar at top to the left until you see the three square buttons at the top right. Click on the maximize button (the one with the square inside) and it will resize itself to fit your screen. Cool, eh?

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