This is the utilities disk for installing the MCC (Manchester Computing Centre) interim version of Linux. To set up your hard disk: Use fdisk to create a primary partition for Linux. The format of the command is 'fdisk [device]'; the default device is /dev/hda, and others are /dev/hdb, /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, etc. You may also wish to set up other partitions for Linux, and/or a partition of at least 5 megabytes for swap space. Give the command V (verify) before writing your partition table. AFTER USING FDISK, REBOOT AND REMOUNT THIS DISK ON /mnt. Use mkfs and mkswap to initialise the partitions you created above. If you do not remember their blocksize, use fdisk with the command p to display it (and then q to exit). mkfs and mkswap have this syntax: mkxxx [-c] /dev/hdxxx nnnnn where [-c] optionally checks the partition, hdxxx is the partition's device as reported by fdisk, and nnnnn is the partition's size in blocks as reported by fdisk. Alternatively, you may be updating an older version of Linux. In that case, only the commands and files contained in this disk will be replaced. The installation procedure saves old configuration files from /etc, /root, and /home/user. Use the command 'swapon /dev/hdxxx' to activate swap space made by mkswap. Mount the new root partition on /root. Mount any other partitions relative to this; for example, fir you want a partition to become /usr/src on the installed system, you should mount it on /root/usr/src. When all partitions are mounted, type 'install_root'.