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NAME="AEN2">The Linux Installation HOWTO</H1
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NAME="AEN4"
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>Eric Steven Raymond</A
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> Thyrsus Enterprises</A
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> esr@thyrsus.com<br>
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>Copyright © 2000 by Eric S. Raymond</P
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>Revision History</B
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>2002-07-06</TD
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>New translations.</TD
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>Minor corrections.</TD
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>This document describes how to obtain and install Linux software.
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It is the first document which a new Linux user should read to get
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>Table of Contents</B
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>1. <A
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HREF="introduction.html"
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>Introduction</A
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>1.1. <A
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>Purpose of this document</A
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>1.2. <A
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HREF="introduction.html#TRANSLATIONS"
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>Translations</A
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>1.3. <A
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HREF="introduction.html#SOURCES"
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>Other sources of information</A
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>1.4. <A
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HREF="introduction.html#NEWVERSIONS"
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>New versions of this document</A
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>1.5. <A
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HREF="introduction.html#FEEDBACK"
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>Feedback and Corrections</A
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>2. <A
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>Recent Changes</A
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>3. <A
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>The Easiest Option: Buy, Don't Build</A
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>4. <A
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>Before You Begin</A
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>Hardware requirements</A
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>Space requirements and coexistence</A
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>Time requirements</A
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>Choosing a Linux distribution</A
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>5. <A
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>Installation Overview</A
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>First Installation Steps: The Easy Way</A
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>First Installation Steps: The Hard Way</A
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>Continuing the Installation</A
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>Basic Parts of an Installation Kit</A
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>Installation In Detail</A
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>Getting prepared for installation</A
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>Repartitioning your DOS/Windows drives</A
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>Creating partitions for Linux</A
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>Booting the installation disk</A
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>Installing software packages</A
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>After package installations</A
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>After Your First Boot</A
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>Beginning System Administratration</A
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