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Part V. After installation

This part of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation Guide covers finalizing the installation, as well as some installation-related tasks that you might perform at some time in the future. These include:
  • using a Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation disk to rescue a damaged system.
  • upgrading to a new version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
  • removing Red Hat Enterprise Linux from your computer.

Table of Contents

34. Firstboot
34.1. License Information
34.2. Setting up software updates
34.2.1. Content delivery and subscriptions
34.2.2. Set Up Software Updates
34.2.3. Choose Server
34.2.4. Using Certificate-based Red Hat Network (Recommended)
34.2.5. Using RHN Classic
34.3. Create User
34.3.1. Authentication Configuration
34.4. Date and Time
34.5. Kdump
35. Your Next Steps
35.1. Updating Your System
35.1.1. Driver update rpm packages
35.2. Finishing an Upgrade
35.3. Switching to a Graphical Login
35.3.1. Enabling Access to Software Repositories from the Command Line
36. Basic System Recovery
36.1. Rescue Mode
36.1.1. Common Problems
36.1.2. Booting into Rescue Mode
36.1.3. Booting into Single-User Mode
36.1.4. Booting into Emergency Mode
36.2. Rescue Mode on POWER Systems
36.2.1. Special Considerations for Accessing the SCSI Utilities from Rescue Mode
36.3. Using rescue mode to fix or work around driver problems
36.3.1. Using RPM to add, remove, or replace a driver
36.3.2. Blacklisting a driver
37. Upgrading Your Current System
38. Deregistering from Red Hat Network Entitlement Platforms
39. Removing Red Hat Enterprise Linux from x86-based systems
39.1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the only operating system on the computer
39.2. Your computer dual-boots Red Hat Enterprise Linux and another operating system
39.2.1. Your computer dual-boots Red Hat Enterprise Linux and a Microsoft Windows operating system
39.2.2. Your computer dual-boots Red Hat Enterprise Linux and a different Linux distribution
39.3. Replacing Red Hat Enterprise Linux with MS-DOS or legacy versions of Microsoft Windows
40. Removing Red Hat Enterprise Linux from IBM System z
40.1. Running a Different Operating System on your z/VM Guest or LPAR