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1At the moment, only installation from a harddisk
2is supported. All commands are shown to you on
3the screen before executing. This is just to make
4sure that nothing bad is done to your harddisk :-)
5
6You can also select to install from a premounted dir.
7Then the "tar/base" directory must be mounted on
8"/install", so that all tar-packages from the basic
9stuff are in "/install/*.tgz". (So you could be able
10to install via NFS...)
11
12Good luck...,
13anyone wants to help programming this tool?,
14
15Florian La Roche
16
17Contents:
18=========
19- overview about what "setup" does.
20- creating a Linux-partition before starting "setup"
21- about lilo
22- how to use "setup", what keys are supported
23
24What does "setup" do on my computer?
25====================================
26Setup will ask you for a partition on your harddisk,
27where you would like to have Linux installed.
28You can then choose to install this distribution from
29your local harddisk or via network (NFS).
30setup will install a very basic system.
31At the end, you can install lilo, the Linux Loader.
32Rebooting your computer with this little linux system
33and then running the setup-program on it, will give
34the possibility to install more packages.
35
36Creating a Linux-partition:
37===========================
38To install this Linux distribution, you need to
39create an extra partition on your harddisk for
40Linux.
41
42What is lilo and how should I install it?
43=========================================
44Read the lilo-documentation for this...
45
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47
48Florian La Roche
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