Chapter 1 : Legal Notice

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The following people contributed to the making of this manual:

• Camille Bégnis
• Sébastien Blondeel
• Benjamin Drieu
• Francis Galiègue

Table of contents

Chapter 1 : Legal Notice

Chapter 2 : Typing Conventions

• 1. Snippets and the like
• 1.1. An example of a snippet
• 1.2. An example of a literal excerpt
• 1.3. An example of the syntax of a command
• 1.4. An example of user input
• 1.5. An example of computer output
• 2. Special fonts
• 3. Miscellaneous
• 4. Tools used in the making of this manual

Chapter 3 : Introduction

• 1. Welcome!
• 2. We need you!

Chapter 4 : Before setup

• 1. Configuring your BIOS
• 2. Creating a bootdisk
• 2.1. Under Windows
• 2.2. Under Linux
• 3. Supported hardware
• 3.1. What's not supported
• 3.2. Collecting information on your hardware

Chapter 5 : Using Lnx4Win

• 1. Preparing for installation
• 2. Start of installation
• 3. And now...

Chapter 6 : Disks and partitions

• 1. Structure of a hard disk
• 2. Extended partitions
• 3. Examples
• 4. Naming conventions
• 4.1. Under Windows
• 4.2. Under Linux

Chapter 7 : Installation with DrakX

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Installation class
• 3. Configuring SCSI
• 4. Installation or Upgrade
• 5. Configuring the Keyboard
• 6. Selecting the mount points
• 7. Clock configuration
• 8. Configuring a Printer
• 8.1. Configuring the access mode
• 8.2. Configuring the print filter
• 9. Administrator password
• 10. Adding a user
• 11. Boot disk
• 12. Installing LILO
• 13. Configuring X
• 14. It's finished!

Chapter 8 : After installation

• 1. Connecting up to the system
• 2. Modems
• 3. Configuring a sound card
• 4. Configuring a ZIP drive using a parallel port
• 4.1. Configuring the hardware
• 4.2. Adding an icon to the KDE desktop
• 4.3. Using the framebuffer

Chapter 9 : The end

Footnotes