How to Set up Red Hat Linux ?
 

I am using a Gigabyte GA-H61M-DS2 Motherboard with 4GB DDR3 Ram Celeron G460 processor and bus speed 1633mhz. Can I instal Red hat Linux on a new sata hdd with a dongle 3G usb Internet connection. Are there any procedures to be undertaken. All information would be highly useful including cheap Linux Books. I am from Goa India.

jimmichia,

Red Hat will install almost flawlessly in most circumstances. Up to now, I have not ever had an issue with RHEL in conjunction with SATA HDDs or wireless cards, SO FAR!! :) ( I have installed RHEL on several laptops and utilized the wireless cards)

Please understand that Red Hat is a distribution that costs - not a free OS. If you are looking for the FREE version, check out http://www.centos.org/. It is Red Hat's community (free) version.

Books are a little harder, as it all depends on the reader. Are you looking for a Red Hat book, or just a book on Linux, in general?

HTH

I am new to Linux. I am using WIN 7 PRO SP1. My hardware has the following specs. Gigabyte GA-H61-DS2 with 4GB of DDR3 Ram and bus speed of 1633MHZ with a Celeron G460 processor. I want to start using Red Hat Linux on a new SATA HDD. I need all the information I can get including Cheap books. I am from Goa India.

I personally liked this book for a Linux starter book: http://www.amazon.com/How-Linux-Work...ow+Linux+Works

If you want to learn about Red Hat specifically, I would stick to the Red Hat Certification books; however, I would not use them for my ONLY reference. I would encourage a book like above, a general Linux system admin book like: http://www.amazon.com/Linux-System-A...=Red+Hat+Linux and a general shell scripting book like: http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Unix...hell+scripting

These should give you a really good foundation for learning.

Good Luck!

Please read the "Red Hat Installation Guide" available for free at http://access.redhat.com

If you have any specific questions after reading the Installation Guide, please ask! :)

but if you MUST !!! use RHEL 6.5 then buy the required support contract
or
install CentOS 6.5 or ScientificLinux 6.5

but with the $299 per year for the standard RHEL 1 year workstation license you get TECH SUPPORT !!!!

for Centos and SL YOU are the tech support

Free to read online books/manuals www.linuxtopia.org