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Operating System Tools

Notes Through a long process of refinement, the Red Hat distributions have come to provide a full
range of packages that meet nearly any common computing need. While it’s a good goal to keep
a server installation to a minimum, you may find that there are some packages you just can’t do
without.
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Caution If you’re using Linux for the first time, it’s perfectly okay to accept the defaults; it’s
easy to add packages later if you realize that something else is required, and the defaults
are carefully chosen by the red hat team to cover the needs of most people.

1.2.4 Welcome of Red Hat Linux

With the main installation completed, a few housekeeping items are all that remain to be done.
Your server will walk through the process of loading drivers, then present you with the Setup
Agent: a set of tools for configuring your system once it has been installed. The use of such tools
has become a common approach among Linux distributions, with SuSE providing the YaST2
tool, and Mandriva utilizing SystemDrak. You’ll be presented with the Setup Agent’s welcome
screen, shown in Figure 1.13, followed by the licence agreement. Once you’ve indicated that you
agree to the license, you’ll enter the configuration screens.

Figure 1.13: The Setup Agent’s Welcome Screen

Source: http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/red-hat-6-installation-guide-rhel-6-install-screenshots/

Setting Date and Time

Now will check and if required, we set the date and time for the computer:

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