2.1. The Graphical Installation Program User Interface

2.1. The Graphical Installation Program User Interface

If you have used a graphical user interface (GUI) before, you are already familiar with this process; use your mouse to navigate the screens, click buttons, or enter text fields.

You can also navigate through the installation using the keyboard. The Tab key allows you to move around the screen, the Up and Down arrow keys to scroll through lists, + and - keys expand and collapse lists, while Space and Enter selects or removes from selection a highlighted item. You can also use the Alt-X key command combination as a way of clicking on buttons or making other screen selections, where X is replaced with any underlined letter appearing within that screen.

If you would like to use a graphical installation with a system that does not have that capability, such as a partitioned system, you can use VNC or display forwarding. Both the VNC and display forwarding installation options require an active network during the installation and the use of boot time arguments. For more information on available boot time options, refer to Appendix E, Additional Boot Options.

Note

If you do not wish to use the GUI installation program, the text mode installation program is also available. To start the text mode installation program, use the following boot command: 

linux text

Please refer to Section 2.2, “The Text Mode Installation Program User Interface” for a brief overview of text mode installation instructions.

It is highly recommended that installs be performed using the GUI installation program. The GUI installation program offers the full functionality of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation program, including LVM configuration which is not available during a text mode installation.

Users who must use the text mode installation program can easily follow the GUI installation instructions and obtain all needed information.

iSeries system users must remember to add boot options, as are listed in this manual (Appendix E, Additional Boot Options) for other operating systems, by first logging into an OS/400 system as an iSeries user and then setting any IPL parameters within their OS/400 session.


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