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34 lines
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This is the utilities disk for installing the MCC (Manchester Computing
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Centre) interim version of Linux. To set up your hard disk:
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Use fdisk to create a primary partition for Linux. The format of the
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command is 'fdisk [device]'; the default device is /dev/hda, and others
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are /dev/hdb, /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, etc. You may also wish
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to set up other partitions for Linux, and/or a partition of at least
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5 megabytes for swap space. Give the command V (verify) before
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writing your partition table.
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AFTER USING FDISK, REBOOT AND REMOUNT THIS DISK ON /mnt.
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Use mkfs and mkswap to initialise the partitions you created above.
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If you do not remember their blocksize, use fdisk with the command p
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to display it (and then q to exit). mkfs and mkswap have this syntax:
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mkxxx [-c] /dev/hdxxx nnnnn
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where [-c] optionally checks the partition, hdxxx is the partition's
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device as reported by fdisk, and nnnnn is the partition's size in blocks
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as reported by fdisk.
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Alternatively, you may be updating an older version of Linux. In that
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case, only the commands and files contained in this disk will be replaced.
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The installation procedure saves old configuration files from /etc, /root,
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and /home/user.
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Use the command 'swapon /dev/hdxxx' to activate swap space made by mkswap.
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Mount the new root partition on /root. Mount any other partitions relative
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to this; for example, fir you want a partition to become /usr/src on the
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installed system, you should mount it on /root/usr/src. When all partitions
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are mounted, type 'install_root'.
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