C.8 Installation: Selecting System Components

(For an explanation of system components, please see Section 4.6.1.)

Important! When selecting system components to install for Red Hat Linux/SPARC, choosing to install Everything without choosing Select individual packages could result in serious problems, and possibly an unbootable Red Hat Linux/SPARC system. Here's why:

• The last kernel to be installed will be a multi-processor kernel, which will fail to work on sun4c machines.

• The default X server will end up as XsunMono, which may not work for most people.

If you do wish to install Everything, choose Select individual packages as well. Then, deselect all the kernels except for one you wish to install (kernel-sparc works for most) and all X servers except the one for your hardware (XsunMono for bwtwo video cards, Xsun for all 8-bit displays, and Xsun24 for the supported 24-bit displays).