Corel Linux x86 ver 1.0 Released on November 15, 1999 The contents of this CD-ROM are Copyright (C) 1999 Corel Corporation and others. Please see the individual copyright notices in each source package for specific license terms. Table of Contents ================= A. Directory Structure of CD-ROM B. Installing Corel LINUX C. Creating a Boot Diskette D. How to access a rescue disc E. Configuring Sound in Corel Linux Deluxe Version F. Configuring Sound in Corel LINUX Standard Version G. Configuring Sound in Corel LINUX Open Circulation Version H. Manually Editing Host Files I. Image Viewer and Screen Grab not included A. Directory Structure of CD-ROM -------------------------------- The Directory structure is as follows. Boot - Boot catalogue and boot diskette image Dists - Distribution directory structure Live - Setup directory Rr_moved Tools - DOS, and rescue tools Autorun.exe - Windows Autorun file Autorun.ico Autorun.inf Bb.bat - Used by Autorun to format floppies Readme.txt - This file B. Installing Corel Linux ------------------------- Corel Linux ver 1.0 must be installed from a CDROM. If you downloaded the Corel LINUX Open Circulation ISO disc image, you must burn it to a CD to be able to install it. The Corel LINUX CD is bootable. If your computer supports bootable CD's, put the CD in the drive, and restart the system to begin Corel Install Express. Check the documentation for your system to see if your computer's BIOS supports this feature. If your computer can not boot from CD, you need to start Corel Install Express from a boot floppy. If you have Corel LINUX Standard or Deluxe, a boot floppy is provided in the box. If you downloaded Corel LINUX or received it from a different source, you need to make a boot floppy diskette. See the following instructions on Creating a Boot Diskette. C. Creating a Boot Diskette --------------------------- Corel Linux does not support booting from 5.25" floppy diskettes so you must have a 3.5" floppy drive as your A: drive. Creating a boot floppy diskette from Windows 1. Insert the Corel Linux CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive. 2. The Corel Linux Autorun should start. If it does not start automatically, double click "My Computer" on your desktop or in Windows Explorer and click on the CD-ROM drive. Double click Autorun.exe. 3. On the splash screen, click the Next button. 4. Select Floppy diskette and click the Next button. 5. Click the Create Floppy button. 6. Insert a formatted floppy disk into the floppy drive and click OK. 7. The Boot floppy creation process is finished when the dialog disappears. 8. Close all Windows applications and click the Restart button to reboot your machine from the new boot floppy. Note: if the boot floppy creation process fails, format the floppy first in Windows Explorer. Creating a boot floppy diskette on a Linux machine 1. Login as root. 2. Mount your CD-ROM by typing the following at a command prompt: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom 3. Insert a blank floppy diskette into the floppy drive. 4. Type: dd if=/mnt/cdrom/boot/boot1440.img of=/dev/fd0 and press enter. D. How to access a rescue disc ------------------------------ If you are having difficulties with your system and you are a knowledgeable Linux user, you can use the Corel LINUX CD as a rescue disk. 1. Place the CD in the CDROM drive (and the boot diskette if necessary). 2. Reboot your system. 3. When the first splash screen appears, press and hold the Shift key for about a second, then let go. 4. Select Rescue Console and press Enter. E. Configuring Sound in Corel Linux Deluxe Version -------------------------------------------------- After you install Corel LINUX, you can configure the 4Front Technologies OSS sound drivers. Click Application Starter, Applications, Multimedia, OSS Configuration and follow the directions in the OSS Configuration utility. F. Configuring Sound in Corel LINUX Standard Version ---------------------------------------------------- After you install Corel LINUX, you can configure the standard sound drivers. 1. Click Application Starter, Run. 2. Enable Run in terminal window. 3. Type sndconfig and click OK. 4. Follow the directions provided by the sndconfig utility. 5. If your sound card is an ISA bus card, you need to shut down and reboot your system. G. Configuring Sound in Corel LINUX Open Circulation Version ------------------------------------------------------------ Follow the directions for the Corel LINUX Standard version. H. Manually Editing the hosts File ---------------------------------- You can manually edit the hosts file (/etc/hosts) to include host names and the corresponding machine IP addresses. This allows a system, connected to a network that does not have a DNS server, to resolve host names to the appropriate IP address. However, modifying the TCP/IP settings in the Network TCP/IP configuration panel in the Control Center comments out or removes any manually entered host names. If you need to modify the TCP/IP settings, make a copy of the original host file so that you can copy the entries into the new file that is created after you use the TCP/IP configuration in the Control Center. I. Image Viewer and Screen Grab not included -------------------------------------------- The Corel LINUX User Guide discusses two applications which are not included with Corel LINUX: Image Viewer and Screen Grab. Use Corel Update to check the Corel LINUX FTP site to install these applications.