Linux Incomplete manual (i)

Introduction to Linux

In August 1991, in Chihu-Finland, a young man named Linus Torvalds released a Unix-like operating system and named it Linux, and put it on the largest FTP site in Finland, so far, a miracle appeared! Since Linux from the outset is a GPL-compliant free software, with good openness, its concise function, open structure, quickly aroused people, especially the university students and researchers attention. They have taken it as the object of study and research, began to carry out in-depth analysis and transformation, take its essence, go to its cedar, and constantly add new features for it. Plus the popularity of the internet, in just a few years, Linux quickly grow up, become a huge user, stable performance, full-featured operating system!

Let me first introduce the major distributions of Linux this year:

Version name	Internet sites	Characteristics
RedHat	Http://www.redhat.com	The package structure based on RPM is simple to install and easy to use.
Slackware	Http://slackware.com	Based on the TGZ package structure, the installation, use of complex, but powerful, recommended as the server's operating system.
Debian	http://www.debian.org	Based on the Deb package structure, the collection of software is very complete.
OpenLinux	Http://www.caldera.com	The RPM-based package structure also comes with a demo version of some commercial software.
Turbolinux	Http://www.turbolinux.com	Han-Chinese more complete, with strong configuration management functions.
Cosixlinux	http://www.cosixlinux.com.cn	With a lot of Unix charm, but the bad thing is that the hardware driver is very old.
Happylinux	http://www.happylinux.com.cn	A well-known domestic computer company-Lenovo's Linux products, Han turned into a very good, simple installation.

Here I would like to say, that is the recent emergence of a large number of domestic companies to do the Linux version, generally these editions are good, especially worth introducing is Lenovo's Happylinux, this version of the interface in the installation is simply Windows standard interface, is worth a use. There is now a Linux version called Winlinux2000, this software is a combination of Linux and Windows, and his installation is like installing a normal Windows program, such as running, just click on the Windows Desktop icon can be , is a Linux under Windows. If you just want to try Linux, you can try this stuff. In the "Computer newspaper supporting CD" 2000 second issue.

Linux Installation article

OK, now that you've chosen a Linux version, it's time to start installing. Then you need to back up your important information just in case. You need to have these software ready before you install them, although not without them, but I suggest you use them to help you install, which will save you a lot of effort.

They are: Pqmagic5.0, PowerQuest Bootmagic. The previous software is a hard disk partition magician, with him you can think how to divide the points. The latter is a multiple-system boot program, with which you can easily manage your Windows and Linux boot work. As for the specific use of these two software, please refer to the relevant articles of the computer newspaper.

As for the preparation of hard disk space, in general, if you want to enjoy the full performance of Linux, it should be at least 1.5G of hard disk space for Linux as the primary partition. Linux also needs a swap partition that acts as the win386.swp of Windows, primarily for virtual memory. The size of this swap partition depends on the size of each person's memory, in general, if there is 32m memory, it is recommended that the swap partition is 64m, if there are 64m of memory, the swap partition has sixty or seventy trillion on it, if your memory is greater than 64m, it is not recommended that you use more than 100m hard disk space for swap partitions, Unless you're a professional graphic worker. As long as the average user, take out a 100m hard disk as a swap partition on it.

Because a system consumes more than 100m of hard disk for virtual memory, then that system where there are any performance can be said, may have no response capability! In addition to the installation of their own graphics card, monitor, sound card and other things such as information collection, installation may be used.

The various Linux distributions now support CD-ROM booting directly, so go to your machine's CMOS settings and set the CDROM at the front of the boot sequence to view your motherboard manual to change the boot sequence. If you are using a CDROM that supports the SCSI interface for CD boot, you can also boot with SCSI. You may need to set up the SCSI controller first.

All right, everything's ready, now, I'm going to install the happylinux, and the rest of the versions are similar. By the way, since Linux is not installed as a "Cancel" button for Windows installation, if you encounter an unresolved problem during installation, you can only Quot;ctrl+alt+del to restart the computer to exit the installation.

After starting from CD-ROM, you will enter a Chinese "Welcome to install Happylinux" interface. Pressing the "enter" key will begin the Happylinux installation process. Pressing the ' Delete ' key will enter the Happylinux uninstall process.

installation process

The Happylinux installation process is composed of a concise and convenient Chinese dialog box interface, with online Help, which helps users to install one step at a time. The whole process is divided into three phases: the first phase of installation, the second stage of installation and the system configuration phase.