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# Installing Linux on ZIP disk using ppa ZIP Drive Mini-Howto

## John Wiggins, jwiggins@comp.uark.edu

v0.7, 26 January 1998

This document is only useful for those with the printer port version of a ZIP drive who wish to have either a portable or backup Linux system on a ZIP disk.

## 1. Disclaimer

## 2. Introduction

- 2.1 What's new
- 2.2 Conventions
- 2.3 Updates
- 2.4 References

## 3. Setting up the ZIP disk

- 3.1 Partitioning ZIP disk
- 3.2 Formatting and mounting the ZIP disk
- 3.3 Creating the boot disk

## 4. Red Hat 4.2 installation

- 4.1 Personal setup
- 4.2 Package installation
- 4.3 Problems after installation of packages

## 5. Slackware 2.2 installation

- 5.1 Requirements
- 5.2 Installation
- 5.3 What to install

## 6. Creating /etc/fstab

## 7. Debian 1.2 Installation

- 7.1 Requirements
- 7.2 Overview
- 7.3 Creating the modified Rescue disk
- 7.4 Install the base system on the ZIP drive.
- 7.5 Creating the boot disk
- 7.6 Reboot the system.
- 7.7 Configure the base system and complete the install process.
- 7.8 Installing the modules you built in step 7.3.2.

## 8. Afterthoughts

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