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Linux Mandrake 5.3 (Festen)
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The contents of this CD-ROM are Copyright (C) 1999 Mandrakesoft S.A.
and others. Please see the individual copyright notices in each source
package for distribution terms. The distribution terms of the tools
copyrighted by Mandrakesoft and Red Hat Software are as noted in the
file COPYING.
Mandrake and its logo are trademarks of Mandrakesoft S.A.
Red Hat, RPM, and glint are trademarks of Red Hat Software, Inc.
============================================================================
DIRECTORY ORGANIZATION
This directory is organized as follows:
|----> Mandrake
|----> RPMS -- binary packages
|----> base -- small filesystem setup archives
|----> instimage -- image used for graphical installs
|----> images -- boot and ramdisk images
|----> dosutils -- installation utilities for DOS
|----> doc -- various FAQs and HOWTOs
|----> misc -- source files, install trees
|----> apps -- various applications
|----> COPYING -- copyright information
|----> README -- this file
|----> RPM-PGP-KEY-MANDRAKE -- PGP signature for packages from Mandrake
|----> RPM-PGP-KEY -- PGP signature for packages from Red Hat
If you are mirroring to a partition or an NFS volume, you'll need to
get everything under Mandrake/, as well as the disk images from images
that you need for your system.
============================================================================
INSTALLING
If you are installing this release via ftp, off of a hard drive, or
through a PCMCIA card, you need both a boot disk and a supplemental
disk. If you are installing via NFS or CDROM without using a PCMCIA
adapter you only need a boot disk. If you did not receive floppy
disks with this product, the images for these disks are in the images
directory. Either the rawrite program in the dosutils directory or 'dd'
under any Unix like system can be used to transfer the image to physical
floppies. Once the diskettes are made, insert the boot disk and boot
your machine.
How to create boot disks:
-------------------------
LINUX: Assuming you have already mounted the CD-ROM and are in the
root directory of the CD. This also assumes that you have
a floppy drive at /dev/fd0 (A: under DOS). You may want to read
the man page for dd(1).
cd images
dd < boot.img > /dev/fd0
dd < supp.img > /dev/fd0
DOS: Assuming your CD-ROM drive is located at D: and your 3.5 in.
floppy drive is located at A: follow the instructions below.
Please read the rawrite3.doc file in the dosutils directory.
D:\>cd DOSUTILS
D:\DOSUTILS>rawrite
Enter the disk image source filename: d:\images\boot.img
Enter target diskette drive: a:\
Please insert a formatted diskette into drive A: and press -ENTER- :
D:\DOSUTILS>rawrite
Enter the disk image source filename: d:\images\supp.img
Enter target diskette drive: a:\
Please insert a formatted diskette into drive A: and press -ENTER- :
============================================================================
SOURCES
All the Linux-Mandrake specific packages come with their sources in the
the source-CD (PowerPack Edition).
Please use FTP servers for sources.
In the case where you don't have Internet access, Linux-Mandrake can send
you a sources archive for very little charge.
============================================================================
SUPPORT
For those that have web access, see http://www.linux-mandrake.com/support/
In particular, access to our mailing lists can be found at:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ml/
If you don't have web access you can still subscribe to the main mailing
list. To subscribe, send mail to newbie@linux-mandrake.com with
subscribe newbie
in the body of the message.
============================================================================
LINUX MANDRAKE MANUAL
If you did not receive documentation with this product, you can order the
manual from Mandrakesoft.
Mandrakesoft can be reached at:
WWW: http://www.linux-mandrake.com
FTP: ftp://ftp.linux-mandrake.com