Installing Blue / Linux for DOS / Windows

Michael Cahill (mjc@cs.usyd.edu.au)

version 1.0, 21 April 1997

Blue / Linux for DOS / Windows is a package that includes Blue and a basic Linux system. It is intended for installation on DOS or Windows PCs. This document is intended to allow someone with little or no knowledge of Linux to install the package.

1. Preliminaries

1.1 System Requirements
1.2 Information about your computer
1.3 The distribution files
1.4 What you will get when you are finished

2. Getting the files

2.1 Floppy Installation
2.2 CD-ROM Installation
2.3 Getting the files over the network

3. Booting Linux

4. Configuring Linux

4.1 Hardware configuration

5. Installing the X server

5.1 Choosing an X server
5.2 From a floppy disk
5.3 From hard disk (copied from network)
5.4 From CD-ROM

6. Creating a user account

7. Starting Blue

8. Turning it off

9. Completing the installation

10. Troubleshooting

10.1 Temporary files
10.2 X server hangs
10.3 Installing a new X server