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installation
boot the pc from redhat 7.3 disk 1
When you see the text based "welcome to redhat" screen press enter. When you see the graphical "welcome" screen click next.

Here are the answers to the interactive installer in order of appearance.

language - english
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keyboard - default value
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mouse - match yours from list
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installation type - custom
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disk partitioning - manually partition with disk druid
/boot - 50 meg
/ - 1 gig
/home - 5 gig
/var - 1 gig
/tmp - 1 gig
/usr - 1 gig
swap - 768
I used the above values on a 10gig drive, but partitioning depends on what you are installing and personal preference as to how large or small you make each partition. Swap is usually 1 to 2 times the amount of physical memory you have installed in you machine. You may want to adjust partition sizes for certain storage needs.
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boot loader - use defaults
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boot loader password configuration - You decide. If you assign a password and your server is rebooted it will require a password to be entered before it starts up. That might prove to be inconvenient.
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network configuration - fill in the values for the tcp/ip settings you wish to use.
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firewall configuration - To start out I like to set my firewall to high, and allow ssh, just for while I'm building the server. Then I can always reconfigure the firewall by typing lokkit at a root console later.
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additional language support - default value
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time zone selection - pick location on map that matches yours.
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account config - enter and confirm root password, create an account for yourself also
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authentication config - default values
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package group selection
network support, utilities, software development, kernel development, select individual packages
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individual package selection
amusements
games - none
graphics - none

applications
archiving -unzip, zip
cpan - none
communications - none
databases - db3-utils
editors - vim-enhanced, joe
emulators - none
engineering - none
file - none
internet - curl, ncftp, openssh, openssh-clients, rsync, stunnel, telnet
multimedia - none
productivity - none
publishing - none
system - dialog, gnupg, logwatch, nmap, patchutils, procinfo, sudo, symlinks, tripwire
text - m4
utilities - none

development
debuggers - default values
languages - default values
libraries - default values
system - default values
tools - default values

documentation - bash-doc

system environment
base - rhn-register, up2date
daemons - cipe, nscd, openssh-server, postfix, tcp-wrappers
kernel - none
libraries - default values
shells - none

user interface - none

Click next and see if there are any unresolved dependancies. Adjust if needed. Then click next to install. Watch the pretty progress bar and change cds when prompted. you will be prompted to create a boot floppy, I suggest you do, but you can always do that later if you want to skip it. finally press exit and reboot.

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