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Procedure

This section briefly explains the installation procedure of JE. Please refer to ``The Guide'' for more information.

The custom installer called ``ezinst'' is in the JE disk set of JE. Use ``pkgtool'' of Slackware or ``sysinstall'' of SLS in your system to install ezinst itself.

(1) Prepare floppy disks of JE. Each disk set of JE should fit in a High Density floppy disk, 5`` or 3.5'' 2HD. Note that this step is not necessary if you install JE from HDD or CD-ROM, or via NFS.

(2) Install JE1 using pkgtool of Slackware or sysinstall of SLS as:

# pkgtool or, # sysinstall -doprompt -series JE

Read the manpage of the installer if you don't want to install JE1 from floppies.

The JE1 disk contains the following packages:

ezinst: Easy installer for JE konbin: KON to display Kanji on console konfnt: Fonts for kon (the same as those for Minix/V) libc: Linux standard shared libraries [Optional] libx: XFree86 shared libraries (English version) [Optional]

Software in JE is compiled to use the standard shared libraries of SHARED_VERSION and XF86 shared libraries of XF_SHARED_VERSION, both of which are defined in A-3. So, you need to install these, ONLY if you use older ones. ``kon'' is necessary if you don't have any software which display Japanese and is supported by the curses, because ``ezinst'' speaks Japanese. You might be able to use ``-e'' option to use it with English messages, though this option is in its beta stage.

(3) Run your Japanese terminal software, such as ``kon'' for console:

# kon

You may use ``kterm'' if you already have one. Also, if your machine is J3100SX made by Toshiba Japan, you may use Kanji-term for J3100 as well as kon with j3100 option:

# kon j3100sx

(4) Start ``ezinst''.

If you install JE from floppy disks:

# ezinst -fd /dev/fd0

To install from HDD, say from ``/dos/JE'':

# ezinst -hd /dos/JE

To install from ``install/JE'' directory of CD-ROM:

# ezinst -cd install/JE

To install via NFS from /linux/JE directory of a server Roy:

# ezinst -nfs Roy:/linux/JE

The installer uses ``/mnt'' as a temporary mount point of the floppy disks or CD-ROM. Thus, you need to ``umount /mnt'' if you already have something mounted on it, unless you install JE via NFS or from HDD.

(5) Follow the instructions by ezinst to go on. Note that the next version of ezinst will be modified significantly to simplify the installation procedure.



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Ross Biro
Mon May 22 13:15:19 PDT 1995