Installing Corel Linux

Download a Corel Linux CD image from http://linux.corel.com, and burn it to a CD.

Since many older computers don't support booting from CD-ROM (possibly because the BIOS or the CD-ROM drive itself don't support the option) it's often useful to create a boot floppy to install Corel Linux.

There are three ways to create a Corel Linux boot floppy, equally useful in different situations:

• If you have Windows running on a computer, just pop in the CD and it will start the install program automatically. (If it doesn't start automatically double click autorun.exe) This installer has a few options, one of which is to create a boot floppy.
• If you have DOS running, or more likely if you started the computer with a Windows boot disk, just run the "bootflop.bat" program in the "tools" directory on the Corel Linux CD-ROM.
• Finally if all you've got is Linux there is a fairly simple procedure for making a bootdisk explained in the file README.TXT on the CD-ROM.

To begin the installation start the computer with the CD and boot floppy. There are four simple configurations you can choose from, but I would recommend selecting the advanced install option and installing everything - it's not complicated and doesn't require much disk space by today's standards. If you install everything now, then you won't have to add as many components later.

After installing use the Control Center to configure your Network settings such as TCP/IP and Windows File Sharing.