After rebooting, you will be prompted to configure the operating system. After a click-through license screen, create a local user account. This account will be used for more detailed configuration later.

Do not press the Use Network Login... button at this time. You will be configuring Kerberos and LDAP after you have configured your static IP address. Likewise, set the date and time on the following screen, but wait to configure the network time service until later.

After the initial configuration, you will see a login screen. Login with the local account you have just created for yourself. For the purposes of this tutorial, we will assume you will choose the default GNOME™ desktop.

Open a Terminal and configure YUM for updates as described on the UW's RHN Satellite page. You can find the Terminal application here:

You can also open a Terminal by pressing ALT F2 and then type gnome-terminal into the text box, followed by the Enter key.

From the Terminal, become root with su and perform updates with yum update.

Later on, you will want to run administrative commands from the shell using sudo. Now is a good time to configure for this, so, as root, edit the /etc/sudoers file with the visudo command, adding a line like this (directly under a similar line for the root user):

Save your changes and close the editor. Changes to this file should take effect immediately. Exit the root shell and try the following command (from your normal user's shell prompt): sudo cat /etc/sudoers. You will be prompted for your password and the contents of the /etc/sudoers file should print to the screen.

Rebooting after all updates have been applied is recommended.