Congratulations! Your Installation is Complete

Figure 6-34. Installation Complete

Remove any diskette from the diskette drive or the Red Hat Linux CD if your system booted from the CD-ROM.

To reboot your newly installed Red Hat Linux system, press Enter.

After your computer's normal power-up sequence has completed, you should see LILO's graphical prompt, at which point you can do any of the following things:

Do whatever is appropriate to boot Red Hat Linux. You should see one or more screens of messages scroll by. Eventually, you should see a login: prompt or a GUI login screen (if you installed the X Window System and chose to start X automatically).

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If for some reason you need to disable the graphical boot screen, you can do so by editing the lilo.conf file and then rerunning LILO.

To do this, comment out (or delete) the line which reads message=/boot/message in the lilo.conf file. To comment a line out, insert the # character at the beginning of the line. Once you have done this, rerun LILO. The next time you boot, you will see the text LILO: prompt, as is seen in previous Red Hat Linux releases.

You may also re-enable the graphical boot screen by adding the above line back into the lilo.conf file and rerunning LILO.

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If you're not sure what to do next, we suggest you begin with the Official Red Hat Linux Getting Started Guide, which covers topics relating to the basics of your system, as an introduction to using Red Hat Linux.

If you are a more experienced user looking for information on system configuration or administration topics, you may find the Official Red Hat Linux Reference Guide on the Documentation CD to be more helpful.