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fox2mike 06/02/09 19:19:30 |
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Modified: xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.0 |
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hb-install-x86-medium.xml |
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Log: |
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changes for LiveCD |
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Revision Changes Path |
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1.3 +41 -52 xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.0/hb-install-x86-medium.xml |
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file : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.0/hb-install-x86-medium.xml?rev=1.3&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=gentoo |
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plain: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.0/hb-install-x86-medium.xml?rev=1.3&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=gentoo |
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diff : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.0/hb-install-x86-medium.xml.diff?r1=1.2&r2=1.3&cvsroot=gentoo |
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Index: hb-install-x86-medium.xml |
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RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.0/hb-install-x86-medium.xml,v |
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retrieving revision 1.2 |
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retrieving revision 1.3 |
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diff -u -r1.2 -r1.3 |
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--- hb-install-x86-medium.xml 3 Feb 2006 18:22:36 -0000 1.2 |
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+++ hb-install-x86-medium.xml 9 Feb 2006 19:19:30 -0000 1.3 |
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<!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license --> |
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<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 --> |
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-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.0/hb-install-x86-medium.xml,v 1.2 2006/02/03 18:22:36 fox2mike Exp $ --> |
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+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.0/hb-install-x86-medium.xml,v 1.3 2006/02/09 19:19:30 fox2mike Exp $ --> |
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<sections> |
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<!-- General description, propagated to other architectures as well --> |
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<!-- START --> |
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<section> |
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-<title>The Gentoo Universal Installation CD</title> |
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+<title>The Gentoo Linux Installer LiveCD</title> |
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<subsection> |
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<title>Introduction</title> |
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<body> |
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<p> |
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Gentoo Linux can be installed using a <e>stage3</e> tarball file. |
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Such a tarball is an archive that contains a minimal environment from |
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-which you can succesfully install Gentoo Linux onto your system. |
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+which you can successfully install Gentoo Linux onto your system. |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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</body> |
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</subsection> |
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<subsection> |
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-<title>Gentoo Universal Installation CD</title> |
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+<title>Gentoo Linux Installer LiveCD</title> |
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<body> |
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<p> |
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-An Installation CD is a bootable medium which contains a self-sustained Gentoo |
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+A LiveCD is a bootable medium which contains a self-sustained Gentoo |
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environment. It allows you to boot Linux from the CD. During the boot process |
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your hardware is detected and the appropriate drivers are loaded. The Gentoo |
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Installation CDs are maintained by Gentoo developers. |
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<ul> |
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<li> |
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- The Universal Installation CD contains everything you need to install |
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- Gentoo. It provides stage3 files for common architectures, source code |
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- for the extra applications you need to choose from and, of course, the |
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- installation instructions for your architecture. |
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+ The Installer LiveCD contains everything you need to install |
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+ Gentoo. It provides a graphical environment, a graphical as well as console |
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+ based installer which automatically carries out the installation for you, |
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+ source code for the extra applications you need to choose from, GRP |
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+ Packages and of course, the installation instructions for your architecture. |
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</li> |
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<li> |
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The Minimal Installation CD contains only a minimal environment that allows |
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</ul> |
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<p> |
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-Gentoo also provides a Package CD. This is not an Installation CD but an |
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-additional resource that you can exploit during the installation of your Gentoo |
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-system. It contains prebuilt packages (also known as the GRP set) that allow |
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-you to easily and quickly install additional applications (such as |
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-OpenOffice.org, KDE, GNOME, ...) immediately after the Gentoo installation and |
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-right before you update your Portage tree. |
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-</p> |
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- |
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-<p> |
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-The use of the Package CD is covered later in this document. |
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+The Gentoo Linux Installer LiveCD also provides an additional resource that you |
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+can exploit during the installation of your Gentoo system. It contains prebuilt |
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+packages (also known as the GRP set) that allow you to easily and quickly |
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+install additional applications (such as OpenOffice.org, GNOME, ...) |
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+immediately after the Gentoo installation and right before you update your |
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+Portage tree. |
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</p> |
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</body> |
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</section> |
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<!-- STOP --> |
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<section> |
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-<title>Download, Burn and Boot the Gentoo Universal Installation CD</title> |
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+<title>Download, Burn and Boot the Gentoo Linux Installer LiveCD</title> |
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<subsection> |
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-<title>Downloading and Burning the Installation CD</title> |
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+<title>Downloading and Burning the Installer LiveCD</title> |
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<body> |
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<p> |
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-You can download the Universal Installation CDs (and, if you want to, the |
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-Packages CD as well) from one of our <uri |
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-link="/main/en/mirrors.xml">mirrors</uri>. The Installation CDs are located in |
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-the <path>releases/x86/2006.0/installcd</path> directory; |
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-the Package CDs are located in the <path>releases/x86/2006.0/packagecd</path> |
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-directory. |
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-</p> |
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-<p> |
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-i686, athlon-xp, pentium3 and pentium4 Package CDs are available via |
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-<uri link="http://tracker.netdomination.org">BitTorrent</uri>. |
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+You can download the Installer LiveCDs from one of our <uri |
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+link="/main/en/mirrors.xml">mirrors</uri>. They are located in |
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+the <path>releases/x86/2006.0/livecd</path> directory. |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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-Inside those directories you'll find ISO-files. Those are full CD images which |
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+Inside that directory you'll find an ISO-file. That is a full CD image which |
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you can write on a CD-R. |
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</p> |
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</body> |
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</subsection> |
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<subsection> |
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-<title>Booting the Universal Installation CD</title> |
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+<title>Booting the Installer LiveCD</title> |
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<body> |
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<impo> |
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</impo> |
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<p> |
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-Once you have burned your installation CD, it is time to boot it. |
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-Remove all CDs from your CD drives, reboot your system and enter the BIOS. |
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-This is usually done by hitting DEL, F1 or ESC, depending on your BIOS. Inside |
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-the BIOS, change the boot order so that the CD-ROM is tried before the hard |
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-disk. This is often found under "CMOS Setup". If you don't do this, your system |
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-will just reboot from the hard disk, ignoring the CD-ROM. |
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+Once you have burned your LiveCD, it is time to boot it. Remove all CDs from |
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+your CD drives, reboot your system and enter the BIOS. This is usually done by |
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+hitting DEL, F1 or ESC, depending on your BIOS. Inside the BIOS, change the |
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+boot order so that the CD-ROM is tried before the hard disk. This is often found |
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+under "CMOS Setup". If you don't do this, your system will just reboot from the |
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+hard disk, ignoring the CD-ROM. |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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-Now place the installation CD in the CD-ROM drive and reboot. You |
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-should see a boot prompt. At this screen, you can hit Enter to begin the |
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-boot process with the default boot options, or boot the Installation CD with |
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-custom boot options by specifying a kernel followed by boot options and then |
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-hitting Enter. |
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+Now place the LiveCD in the CD-ROM drive and reboot. You should see a boot |
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+prompt. At this screen, you can hit Enter to begin the boot process with the |
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+default boot options, or boot the LiveCD with custom boot options by specifying |
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+a kernel followed by boot options and then hitting Enter. |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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-Specifying a kernel? Yes, we provide several kernels on our Installation CDs. |
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+Specifying a kernel? Yes, we provide several kernels on our LiveCD. |
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The default one is <c>gentoo</c>. Other kernels are for specific hardware needs |
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and the <c>-nofb</c> variants which disable framebuffer. |
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</p> |
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installing Gentoo on a system with a non-US keyboard, make sure you |
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immediately press Alt-F1 to switch to verbose mode and follow the prompt. If no |
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selection is made in 10 seconds the default (US keyboard) will be accepted and |
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-the boot process will continue. Once the boot process completes, you will be |
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-automatically logged in to the "Live" Gentoo Linux as |
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-"root", the super user. You should have a root ("#") prompt |
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-on the current console and can also switch to other consoles by pressing Alt-F2, |
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-Alt-F3 and Alt-F4. Get back to the one you started on by pressing Alt-F1. |
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+the boot process will continue. Once the boot process completes, Gnome will start |
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+up and you will be automatically logged in to the "Live" Gentoo Linux as |
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+"gentoo" in graphical mode. You will be logged in as "root", the superuser on |
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+the other consoles and should have a root ("#") prompt there. You can switch to |
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+those consoles by pressing Alt-F2, Alt-F3, Alt-F4 Alt-F5, Alt-F6. Get back to |
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+the graphical desktop you started on by pressing Alt-F7. |
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</p> |
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</body> |
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<body> |
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<p> |
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-When the Installation CD boots, it tries to detect all your hardware devices and |
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+When the LiveCD boots, it tries to detect all your hardware devices and |
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loads the appropriate kernel modules to support your hardware. In the |
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vast majority of cases, it does a very good job. However, in some cases, it |
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may not auto-load the kernel modules you need. If the PCI auto-detection |
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