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>Chapter 4. Installation and Hardware Configuration</TD
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>4.7. Hardware Configuration</A
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>After package installation, Red Hat will begin configuring the
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devices on your system. In most cases, except with very new hardware that
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may not be fully supported by Linux, the installation program does a good
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job of automatic configuration.</P
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>The prompts you will see are very straightforward:</P
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>Detection of your mouse (including choosing between 2- and
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3-button models. If you have a 2-button mouse you'll likely want to
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enable 3-button emulation.)</P
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>Detection of your video card</P
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>Choosing your monitor</P
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>Running of ``<TT
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>XConfigurator</TT
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>'' to
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configure the X Window System (you'll want to <SPAN
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>"Probe"</SPAN
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> your
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card. If you get an error here, don't worry as you can take care of X
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configuration later, after your system is up and running; see <A
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HREF="xwindows-configuration.html"
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>Chapter 5</A
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> for details.)</P
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>Selection of video modes (you can choose the defaults, or
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you can fine- tune the video modes you'll want to use under the X Window
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System)</P
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>LAN configuration</P
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>Clock and timezone configuration</P
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>Startup services (the default selection is probably best,
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but again, you can press <TT
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for a description of what a given service does)</P
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>Printer configuration</P
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>Assignment of root password (choose something
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secure!)</P
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>Creation of a boot disk [ don't be lazy! Make one!
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:-) ]</P
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