Slackware Linux Help
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First, a little help on help. Whenever you encounter a text viewer
like this during the installation, you can move around with these
commands:

PGDN/SPACE     - Move down one page
PGUP/'b'       - Move up one page
ENTER/DOWN/'j' - Move down one line
UP/'k'         - Move up one line
LEFT/'h'       - Scroll left
RIGHT/'l'      - Scroll right
'0'            - Move to beginning of line
HOME/'g'       - Move to beginning of file
END/'G'        - Move to end of file
'/'            - Forward search
'?'            - Backward search 
'n'            - Repeat last search (forward) 

RUNNING THE SETUP PROGRAM

Setup has quite a few options, which can be slightly confusing the
first time you look at the menu. It's not really that hard, though.

SOURCE    (select the source location for the Slackware Linux 
           packages)
          This option must be run before you can install any software
          to define where the new software will be installed from. 
          You can install from a hard drive partition, floppy disks,
          NFS, CD-ROM, or any part of the currently mounted
          filesystem.
TARGET    You can use this option to install packages to a different
          directory than '/'. Normally, you won't want to change this, 
          however, it can be useful for installing software into an 
          evaluation directory, or installing software into remote 
          machines via NFS.
DISK SETS - You must run this option before you can install software.
          The option is used to select which disk sets you wish to
          install. You should remove old software that you plan to
          upgrade with PKGTOOL before install newer versions. For 
          this reason, replacing the A series is not recommended. If
          you want to do this, you should install the A series to a
          temporary directory and make the conversion by hand.
INSTALL - Once you've set up your source and selected your disk sets,
          you use this option to begin installing the new software. 

I hope that these options will be mostly self-explanatory. Just read
the screen carefully as you install and you should do just fine.

OTHER SETUP OPTIONS

These are the "optional options" on setup:

KEYMAP: This option lets you remap your keyboard to one of the many
  keyboard mappings other than the default US-qwerty one. You will be
  given a list of keyboard maps to choose from, and an opportunity to
  test the new map. If you run CONFIGURE before exiting Setup, the
  selected map will be made the new default.

QUICK: This lets you select between two types of installation, QUICK
and VERBOSE. VERBOSE is recommended for beginners, since QUICK gives
a much shorter description of each package and expects you know what
you need. QUICK mode cannot be used with custom tagfiles, only the
normal ones. If you've automated your install process with custom
tagfiles, you should leave setup in VERBOSE mode.

MAKE TAGS: This lets you preselect the packages by creating custom
tagfiles on the first disk of a series. There's a little help 
file offered with this option, so if you're interested in it just
try it out. It's quite easy to customize your entire set of disks
with this option - especially handy if you plan to configure several
machines in a similar manner.

CONFIGURE (reconfigure your Linux system)

PKGTOOL: Run PKGTOOL to install, remove, or view the contents of packages.

EXIT: This leaves Slackware Linux setup.


Have fun installing and running Linux!

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Patrick Volkerding
volkerdi@ftp.cdrom.com
volkerdi@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu