Preface

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Preface

On February 18,1999, Red Hat Software, Inc. announced that it had entered an alliance with IBM to deliver, via IBM Business Partners, high-performance IBM systems running Red Hat Linux.
IBM and Red Hat are working together to optimize IBM personal system hardware for running Red Hat Linux, providing customers with powerful and reliable enterprise and e-business solutions on the Red Hat Linux platform.

This redpaper discusses the installation procedures of Red Hat Linux 5.2 on Netfinity Servers.
It will cover which precautions to take during the installation, the problems we encountered, and will be useful to anyone involved with the installation of Red Hat Linux 5.2 on Netfinity Servers.

The redpaper is divided into five chapters.
It begins with an introduction chapter that provides general information on the operating system and what to expect of it.
The next three chapters cover the installation procedures of Red Hat Linux 5.2 on the Netfinity 3000, 3500 and 5000 systems respectively.
Chapter 5 covers how to install with a token-ring card.