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Help on installation - Where do I begin.

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From: The Edge
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 00:00

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Well first of all backup your exisiting data on your hard disk...
Then you a program like fips to shrink a partition...
Once you get installtion setup using boot disk (one may come with your
distribution), you can run linux fdisk and set your partition...
I would recommend making at least to primary partitions 1 for root and
1 for swap for a very basic setup, I have set my hard drive to have 6 partitions allocated to Linux, however if you use Slackware or Redhat, the installtion
after that is pretty self explanatory, on Debian I found it to be more flexible
however a lot more difficult to install.

Depending on the distribution you may need to create boot/root disks ie:
this should be found with your distrution on how to create this... else check
out http://holmes.its.deakin.edu.au which will show you how to install Linux..
i
There is not much more I can say other than give it a go... take a look at some
HOWTO documents on your near sunsite mirror... sunsite home site is sunsite.unc.edu
Well I hope it is...

Cheers

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