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NAME="OVERVIEW">5. Installation Overview</H1
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>It's wise to collect configuration information on your hardware
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before installing. Know the vendor and model number of each card
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in your machine; collect the IRQs and DMA channel numbers. You
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probably won't need this information -- but if it turns out you do,
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you'll need it very badly.</P
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>If you want to run a "dual-boot" system (Linux and DOS or Windows or
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both), rearrange (repartition) your disk to make room for Linux. If you're
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wise, you'll <EM
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>back up everything first!</EM
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NAME="EASYWAY">5.1. First Installation Steps: The Easy Way</H2
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>If you have an EIDE/ATAPI CDROM (normal these days), check your machine's
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BIOS settings to see if it has the capability to boot from CD-ROM. Most
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machines made after mid-1997 can do this.</P
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>If yours is among them, change the settings so that the CD-ROM is checked
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first. This is often in a 'BIOS FEATURES' submenu of the BIOS
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configuration menus.</P
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>Then insert the installation CD-ROM. Reboot. You're started.</P
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>If you have a SCSI CDROM you can often still boot from it, but it gets
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a little more motherboard/BIOS dependent. Those who know enough to
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spend the extra dollars on a SCSI CDROM drive probably know enough to
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figure it out.</P
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NAME="HARDWAY">5.2. First Installation Steps: The Hard Way</H2
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>Make installation floppies.</P
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>Boot an installation mini-Linux from the floppies in order
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to get access to the CD-ROM.</P
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NAME="CONTINUING">5.3. Continuing the Installation</H2
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>Prepare the Linux filesystems. (If you didn't edit the
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disk partition table earlier, you will at this stage.)</P
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>Install a basic production Linux from the
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CD-ROM.</P
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>Boot Linux from the hard drive.</P
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>(Optional) Install more packages from CD-ROM.</P
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NAME="BASICPARTS">5.4. Basic Parts of an Installation Kit</H2
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>Here are the basic parts of an installable distribution:</P
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>The README and FAQ files. These will usually be
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located in the top-level directory of your CD-ROM and be readable
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once the CD-ROM has been mounted under Linux. (Depending on how
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the CD-ROM was generated, they may even be visible under
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DOS/Windows.) It is a good idea to read these files as soon as you
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have access to them, to become aware of important updates or
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changes.</P
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>A number of
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bootdisk images (often in
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a subdirectory). If your CD-ROM is not bootable, one of these is the file
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that you will write to a floppy to create the boot disk. You'll select
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<EM
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>one</EM
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> of the above bootdisk images, depending on the
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type of hardware that you have in your system.</P
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>The issue here is that some hardware drivers conflict with each
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other in strange ways, and instead of attempting to debug hardware
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problems on your system it's easier to use a boot floppy image with
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only the drivers you need enabled. (This will have the nice side
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effect of making your kernel smaller.)</P
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>A rescue disk image. This is a disk containing a basic
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kernel and tools for disaster recovery in case something trashes
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the kernel or boot block of your hard disk.</P
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>RAWRITE.EXE. This is an MS-DOS program that will write
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the contents of a file (such as a bootdisk image) directly
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to a floppy, without regard to format.</P
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>You only need RAWRITE.EXE if you plan to create your boot and
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root floppies from an MS-DOS system. If you have access to a UNIX
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workstation with a floppy drive instead, you can create the
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floppies from there, using the `dd' command, or possibly a
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vendor-provided build script. See the man page for dd(1) and ask
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your local UNIX gurus for assistance. There's a dd example later
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in this document.</P
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>The CD-ROM itself. The purpose of the boot disk is to get
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your machine ready to load the root or installation disks, which in
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turn are just devices for preparing your hard disk and copying
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portions of the CD-ROM to it. If your CD-ROM is bootable, you can boot
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it and skip right to preparing your disk.</P
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