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Finishing Up...

6.11 Finishing Up...

After you have configured the X Windows System, the installation program will prompt you to prepare your system for reboot (see Figure 79). Don't forget to remove any diskette that might be in the diskette drive, or CD that might be in the CD-ROM drive if your system is able to boot from the CD-ROM (unless you decided to skip the standard LILO installation, in which case you'll need to use the boot diskette created during the installation).

Figure 79: Ready for Reboot

After your computer's normal power-up sequence has completed, you should see LILO's standard prompt, which is boot:. At the boot: prompt, you can do any of the following things:

Do whatever is appropriate to boot Red Hat Linux. You should see one or more screens worth of messages scroll by. Eventually, you should see a login: prompt.

Congratulations! Your Red Hat Linux installation is complete!

If you're not sure what to do next, we suggest you begin with the Official Red Hat Linux Getting Started Guide as an introduction to using Linux. The Official Red Hat Linux Getting Started Guide covers topics such as ``learning the basics of your system'' to ``navigating your system'' and much more.


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