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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

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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.

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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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