Chapter 2. Detailed Installation Instructions
In Chapter 1, "Quick Start," I showed you how to install Red Hat Linux 6 in the best of all possible worlds. However, the best of all possible worlds is not the real world. In the real world, what can go wrong likely will go wrong. Also, to paraphrase Leo Tolstoy, easy installations are all alike, but difficult installations are each different. This chapter concentrates on making "different" installations if not easy, at least easier.
To take one very important point, the "Quick Start" installation in Chapter 1 assumed you were willing to turn your computer over to Linux (and delete everything currently on your hard drive). If this is not, in fact, the case, you will have to partition your hard drive ...
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