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>GNU/Linux Post-Installation Checklist: Defying Murphy's Laws</TH
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>2. Post-Installation Steps</A
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>To enjoy your new Linux installation forever without any worries, it is
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important to take a few simple precautions. You must do these as soon
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as you complete installing Linux on your machine for the first time.</P
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>Create a
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TARGET="_top"
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>boot
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diskette</A
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> and a <EM
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>rescue diskette</EM
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Utilities for creating these diskettes are available along with
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your Linux distribution.</P
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>If you are the paranoid type (like me), you
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can make two copies of each of these diskettes. Diskettes are
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notorious for failing when they are most needed.</P
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><EM
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>Test out your boot diskette</EM
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Make sure you can boot into Linux using the boot diskette. Remember
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Murphy's Laws may strike at you just when you least expect.</P
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>Checkout thoroughly your new system. Try all major packages.</P
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>Try out the X windows system, and the desktop, and
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the windows manager, if you have installed these.</P
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>Try out the connection to your LAN, and to the Internet.</P
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>Create at least one "non-root" account, for
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testing and debugging your installation. Perform ALL the above
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checkouts once again, using the non-root account you created.</P
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>Join a local Linux Users Group (LUG). You must
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HREF="http://www.linuxlinks.com/UserGroups/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>find out if there is a LUG close by</A
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>. If there is none, start an
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informal LUG yourself, in your neighbourhood, your campus, your city,
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or your town.</P
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>Join one or more
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HREF="http://oslab.snu.ac.kr/~djshin/linux/mail-list/index.shtml"
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TARGET="_top"
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>mailing
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lists for Linux</A
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> updates and news. There are literally hundreds of
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them.</P
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> Register yourself and your machine in the worldwide
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HREF="http://counter.li.org/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Linux Users Counter</A
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>.</P
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>And finally...</EM
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>Download the
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>Section 3</A
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> and run it. Make a safe copy (on a removable
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medium) of the directory: <TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/root/postinfo</TT
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> which
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the script will create. You may also like to make a printout of the
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summary report <TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/root/postinfo/summary</TT
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> created by
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the shell script.</P
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>You must run this shell script: as soon as you have
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installed Linux for the first time, and after every major revision or
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upgrade to your Linux system. You can also set up the script as a
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cron job, so that it runs itself periodically and automatically. This
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will avoid you a lost of hassles later, in case something gets messed
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up later.</P
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