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Installing Linux on ZIP disk using ppa ZIP Drive Mini-Howto

John Wiggins, jwiggins@comp.uark.edu

v0.7, 26 January 1998

This document is only useful for those with the printer port version of a ZIP drive who wish to have either a portable or backup Linux system on a ZIP disk.

1. Disclaimer

2. Introduction

2.1 What's new
2.2 Conventions
2.3 Updates
2.4 References

3. Setting up the ZIP disk

3.1 Partitioning ZIP disk
3.2 Formatting and mounting the ZIP disk
3.3 Creating the boot disk

4. Red Hat 4.2 installation

4.1 Personal setup
4.2 Package installation
4.3 Problems after installation of packages

5. Slackware 2.2 installation

5.1 Requirements
5.2 Installation
5.3 What to install

6. Creating /etc/fstab

7. Debian 1.2 Installation

7.1 Requirements
7.2 Overview
7.3 Creating the modified Rescue disk
7.4 Install the base system on the ZIP drive.
7.5 Creating the boot disk
7.6 Reboot the system.
7.7 Configure the base system and complete the install process.
7.8 Installing the modules you built in step 7.3.2.

8. Afterthoughts

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