Welcome to Voltalinux 1.0 (Genova) it is the power of a Slackware GNU/Linux and a true ports system, pkgsrc, from NetBSD. Short info about installation, you need about 400 free Megs, those info are also on the CD, file INTALL.TXT: By te0x 1) boot from CDROM 2) select a kernel, most times bare.i (the default) will work 3) partition your disk(s) with fdisk, (WARNING backup your data BEFORE they are gone !!!!!), one swap and one root at least 4) format your partitions, for instance mkreiserfs /dev/hda2 and mkswap /dev/hda1 5) mount your new partition(s) under /voltalinux (mount /dev/hda2 /voltalinux) 6) mount your CDROM device under /cdrom (mount /dev/hdc /cdrom) 7) cd to /voltalinux and tar xvzfp /cdrom/voltalinux/voltalinux_X_base.tar.gz add also voltalinux_X_devel.tar.gz (and run /cdrom/doinst_devel.sh after) to develope you packages and voltalinux_X_net.tar.gz for additional network tools. 8) if you need it, you can choose a right kernel for you from /cdrom/kernes/ and put it, with the unzipped System.map, to /boot (the default is bare.i, named vmlinuz) 9) chroot . /bin/bash 10) edit /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf to suit your setup (there are 2 files to be modified in /etc/) 11) run lilo -v 12) reboot after reboot and login with empy password set a root password with # passwd then configure many other things like network, time, services, etc. /etc/fstab sample: /dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /etc/lilo.conf sample: # LILO configuration file # # Start LILO global section boot = /dev/hda prompt default=voltalinux timeout = 100 vga = normal # Linux bootable partition config ends image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/hda2 label = voltalinux read-only Author: Matteo Garofano info@sicurezzarete.it