If you are not on a network, then you can skip this section and go

directly to the next which is Time Zone selection. Just point to your

location on the map and your zone will show up in the box.

Root Password and Adding Users

At this point, you will be asked to give a root password and add at least one user.

The password should be a minimum of 6 characters. The root account is the

administrator account for your system and is

the most powerful account. You should be very careful while using this account.

That is why it is recommended that you also

create a normal user account. This user account will allow you to do just

about everything so the only time you should have to login as root will be

when you need to change some system configuration. At all

other times use the non-privileged user account. You can skip the user

account creation but it is not recommended.

Package Selection

Workstation selectors get a choice of Gnome, KDE, Games

and Custom. We selected Gnome+KDE which was a total of 475 packages and

about 990 MB in our case. If you select custom here, then you can further

narrow down your choice of packages to be installed. You could however run

into dependency problems. Certain programs need others to be installed

before them or they would not be installed. The problem comes in locating

and ensuring their installation as they may need others to be

pre-installed and so on!

Why Gnome as well as KDE? Well, Linux is all about choice, isn't it?

GNOME and KDE are both excellent GUIs and you can't go wrong with either.

GNOME is flashier but KDE feels better. If undecided then feel free to

select both.

Monitor and Video card Configuration

The next step is configuring your monitor. Beware, a wrong selection at

this point could end up damaging your monitor! Fortunately, Red Hat 7.0

seems to have a long list of known monitors and yours should get auto

detected or be on that list. If not, then you will need to refer to your

monitor manual for vertical and horizontal refresh rates.

Video Card: This should get auto detected. You should test your selection

at this point.

Use graphical logon

Customize X logon

We recommend you select both of these unless you are one of those terminal

fans. The customize logon feature allows you to select Gnome or KDE to

start every time and as per each user.