1f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinAt the moment, only installation from a harddisk 2f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussinis supported. All commands are shown to you on 3f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussinthe screen before executing. This is just to make 4f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussinsure that nothing bad is done to your harddisk :-) 5f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussin 6f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinYou can also select to install from a premounted dir. 7f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinThen the "tar/base" directory must be mounted on 8f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussin"/install", so that all tar-packages from the basic 9f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussinstuff are in "/install/*.tgz". (So you could be able 10f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussinto install via NFS...) 11f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussin 12f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinGood luck..., 13f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussinanyone wants to help programming this tool?, 14f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussin 15f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinFlorian La Roche 16f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussin 17f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinContents: 18f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussin========= 19f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussin- overview about what "setup" does. 20f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussin- creating a Linux-partition before starting "setup" 21f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussin- about lilo 22f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussin- how to use "setup", what keys are supported 23f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussin 24f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinWhat does "setup" do on my computer? 25f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussin==================================== 26f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinSetup will ask you for a partition on your harddisk, 27f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussinwhere you would like to have Linux installed. 28f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinYou can then choose to install this distribution from 29f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussinyour local harddisk or via network (NFS). 30f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussinsetup will install a very basic system. 31f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinAt the end, you can install lilo, the Linux Loader. 32f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinRebooting your computer with this little linux system 33*a96ef450SBaptiste Daroussinand then running the setup-program on it, will give 34f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussinthe possibility to install more packages. 35f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussin 36f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinCreating a Linux-partition: 37f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussin=========================== 38f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinTo install this Linux distribution, you need to 39f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussincreate an extra partition on your harddisk for 40f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinLinux. 41f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussin 42f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinWhat is lilo and how should I install it? 43f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussin========================================= 44f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinRead the lilo-documentation for this... 45f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussin 46f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussin 47f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussin 48f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinFlorian La Roche 49f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussin 50