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Installing Linux for poets

Jorn Barger November 2002

minimum storage: 300Mb? 80Mb?
recommended: 2 Gb

4Mb RAM

Walkthrus: LDP-howto, LinuxFromScratch (LFS), Debian 3.0

LFS's compressed sourcefiles are 100MB

tools: [overview]

Slackware: pkgtool

Red Hat: RPM (Redhat Package Manager) [how-to]

backup

cards

interrupts

IRQ and DMA channel numbers

partitioning

speed

growth

security (log-file attack on /var directory)

convenience

navigation

keyboard

drives

name, assign, initialise

LILO

Grub

cfdisk

boot partition

swap partition

root partition

system files

moves kernel (vmlinuz) to /boot

compiling how-to gcc howto

drivers

cd

network

network

how-to

hostname

ip-address

archive path

/instmnt

bootable?

LILO

rebooting

LILO

timezone

password

slimming

PCMCIA

modem

how-to

packages

Apt, Tasksel, Dselect

Synaptic

X

mouse

PS/2, USB, Serial

screen

vertical and horizontal scan frequencies

resolution, color depth

video card

framebuffer

how-to

keyboard

rules, layout

mouseport

window manager

font howto


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