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