Installation instructions
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The installation is done in 3 steps:

   Stage1: Creation of a 'static' directory to contain
           only the minimal tools required to build our
           minimal Linux system, using only static linking.
   Stage2: This will build a minimal Linux system, which is
           bootable and configured for network operations.
   Stage3: This adds all the tools and programs to build a
           complete Linux system. This means X support for
           workstations, and web and mail servers support
           when installing for a server.

This is the directory structure you must have to begin with:

sources/
|--packages
\--scripts

The "packages" directory must contain all the source code packages, with
the ".tar.bz2" extensions, as well as all the patches.

You can create the directory structure by using these commands:

     mkdir -p sources/packages
     mv hvlinux sources/scripts

To begin the installation, enter the "sources/scripts" directory. You
must first create a file called 'sysinfos' in this directory,
containing informations about your hardware, network  settings and
installation type among other things.
You can use the following two files as templates:
   Server installation:      use the sample file 'sysinfos.server'
   Workstation installation: use the sample file 'sysinfos.workstn'

Next, enter each of the stages directories starting with 'stage1',  and
read the INSTALL file for how to start the installation for that stage.

Hugo Villeneuve
hugo@hugovil.com