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Students now should be able to pick up a used PC desktop system on eBay for around $100. You need at least 512M RAM but right now used system with 1G of RAM are very common. This is a good investment in your education.
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If you've only got one system and money is tight, another alternative would be to get another hard-drive and install it in your current system (in addition to your current hard-drive).
See Dual Boot
This chapter steps through the process of installing either Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora Core. Frequently, the installation is quite simple, especially if you have done a good job of planning. Sometimes you may run into a problem or have a special circumstance; this chapter gives you the tools to use in these cases.IN THIS CHAPTER
Booting the System: The boot: Prompt
The Anaconda Installer
Using Disk Druid to Partition the Disk
Setting Up a Dual-Boot System
The X Window System
system-config-display: Configuring the Display
More Information
Chapter 2 covered planning the installation: requirements, an upgrade versus a clean installation, classes of installations, planning the layout of the hard disk, how to obtain the files you need for the installation including how to download and burn ISO (CD) images, and collecting the information about the system you will need during installation. This chapter steps through the process of installing either Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora Core. Frequently, the installation is quite simple, especially if you have done a good job of planning. Sometimes you may run into a problem or have a special circumstance; this chapter gives you the tools to use in these cases.
Your company just bought 30 new machines, and it’s your job to install Linux on them. If you’re using Red Hat Linux, the kickstart install process can save you a lot of time.Kickstart automates the install process, so that it becomes as simple as putting the floppy in, turning the machine on, and coming back 15 minutes later. Kickstart is especially useful if you have a number of machines with similar configurations. In the simplest case, all you need is an up-to-date boot floppy, a kickstart config file, and an installation CD-ROM. For trickier installs, you might also need a DHCP or bootp server, an NFS server, and a DNS server.
A kickstart installation requires that you predefine all necessary installation data in a kickstart config file. The kickstart config file can be split into three parts — the preinstall, the packages, and the post-install.
The preinstall section of the config file is used to answer the questions that are usually asked before the install starts. The options, which will be described below, are: lang, network, {nfs|cdrom|url|harddrive}, {device|noprobe}, keyboard, zerombr, clearpart, part, {install|upgrade}, mouse, timezone, {xconfig|skipx}, rootpw, auth, lilo. See “Configuration Options” for a description of the preinstall section options.
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/KickStart-HOWTO.html
Josh's Linux Guide -- contains several useful essays
Setting Up Ethernet -- very good. The site Josh's Linux Guide contains other useful documents. Highly recommended.
Linux at CESDIS -- by Donald Becker
Ethernet HOWTO, by Paul Gortmaker <gpg109@rsphy1.anu.edu.au>. Information on Ethernet hardware compatibility for Linux. Updated 6 July 1998.
Kernel HOWTO, by Brian Ward <ward@blah.math.tu-graz.ac.at>. Upgrading and compiling the Linux kernel. Updated 26 May 1997.
See also:
Home Server with Linux - document that explains how to share a modem and printer with a Windows 95 machine
The following mini-HOWTOs are available:
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