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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 :-)
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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...)
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12*f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinGood luck...,
13*f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussinanyone wants to help programming this tool?,
14*f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussin
15*f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinFlorian La Roche
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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
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24*f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinWhat does "setup" do on my computer?
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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.
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36*f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinCreating a Linux-partition:
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38*f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinTo install this Linux distribution, you need to
39*f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussincreate an extra partition on your harddisk for
40*f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinLinux.
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42*f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinWhat is lilo and how should I install it?
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44*f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinRead the lilo-documentation for this...
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47*f4f33ea0SBaptiste Daroussin
48*f4f33ea0SBaptiste DaroussinFlorian La Roche
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