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4.1 Find out if Linux supports your hardware. Go to SuSE's web site at the
following address and check out their hardware database http//:www.suse.com
this contains a database for many devices and their current state of
support in Linux. A RedHat specific list can be found at http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=hcl.
For Mandrake specific try http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3.
For Lindows check http://www.lindows.com/lindows_hwsw_compatibility.php.
For video cards you might want to look at http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.
For scanners go to http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html.
There is also a hardware compatibility HowTo located at the Linux
Documentation Project
4.2 Find out about installation issues. Usually the doc directory on your
installation CD will have many documents on installation and setup. Also
be sure to check the manufacturers web site, and any distribution
specific newsgroups 4.3 Install without making a boot disk first. Most distribution CDs are bootable, providing your computer system supports booting from CD. Change the BIOS settings (usually you enter the BIOS by pressing the Del key during boot up). Change the boot sequence so that the CD-ROM is listed first. Save and reboot. 4.4 Make a boot disk within Windows. Use rawrite. It's in the dosutils directory of your CD. For the most part images are in the images directory (how convenient). Read the README file or INSTALL file for more information. 4.5 Make a boot disk within Linux. Open up a terminal cd to the
images directory and type dd if=xxxx.img of=/dev/fd0 where xxxx is the
name of the image.
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