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<H1><A NAME=SECTION00440000000000000000>2.4 Postinstallation procedures</A></H1>
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<A NAME=secinstallpostinstall> </A>
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After you have completed installing the Linux software, there should be
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very little left to do before you can begin to use the system. In most
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cases, you should be
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able to reboot the system, login as <tt>root</tt>, and begin exploring
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the system. (Each distribution has a slightly different method for doing
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this.)
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At this point it's a good idea to explain how to reboot and shutdown the
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system as you're using it.
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You should never reboot or shutdown your Linux system by pressing the
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reset switch or with the old ``Vulcan Nerve Pinch''---that is, by
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pressing <IMG BORDER=0 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="img68.gif"> in unison.<A NAME=tex2html293 HREF="footnode.html#1533"><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="gif" SRC="foot_motif.gif"></A>
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You shouldn't simply switch off
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the power, either. As with most UNIX systems, Linux caches disk
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writes in memory. Therefore, if you suddenly reboot the system without
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shutting down ``cleanly'', you can corrupt the data on your drives,
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causing untold damage.
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The easiest way to shut down the system is with the <tt>shutdown</tt> command.
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As an example, to shutdown and reboot the system immediately, use the
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following command as <tt>root</tt>:
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<P><TT> # <em>shutdown --r now</em>
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This will cleanly reboot your system. The man page for <tt>shutdown</tt>
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Note, however, that many Linux distributions do not provide the
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<tt>shutdown</tt> command on the installation media. This means that
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the first time you reboot your system after installation, you may
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need to use the <IMG BORDER=0 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="img70.gif"> combination after all. Thereafter,
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you should always use the <tt>shutdown</tt> command.
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After you have a chance to explore and use the system, there are several
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configuration chores that you should undertake. The first is to create
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a user account for yourself (and, optionally, for any other users that
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might have access to the system). Creating user accounts is described in
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Section <A HREF="node166.html#secmanageusers">4.4</A>. Usually, all that you have to do is
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login as <tt>root</tt>, and run the <tt>adduser</tt> (sometimes <tt>useradd</tt>)
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program. This will lead you through several prompts to create a new
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user account.
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If you created more than one filesystem for Linux, or if you're using
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a swap partition, you may need to edit the file <tt>/etc/fstab</tt> in
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order for those filesystems to be available automatically after rebooting.
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(For example, if you're using a separate filesystem for <tt>/usr</tt>, and
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none of the files that should be in <tt>/usr</tt> appear to be
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present, you may simply need to mount that filesystem.)
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Section <A HREF="node184.html#secmanagefs">4.8</A> describes this procedure.
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Note that the Slackware distribution of Linux automatically configures
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your filesystems and swap space at installation time, so this
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usually isn't necessary.
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<P><ADDRESS>
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<I>Matt Welsh <BR>
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mdw@sunsite.unc.edu</I>
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