General Linux system installation hints

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1. Hardware compatibility basics
2. Determining a PC's hardware and chip set
3. Determining a PC's hardware via Debian
4. Determining a PC's hardware via other OSs
5. A Lilo myth
6. GRUB
7. Choice of boot floppies
8. Installation
9. Hosts and IP to use for LAN
10. User accounts
11. Creating filesystems
    1. Hard disk partition
    2. Mount filesystems
    3. Autofs mount
    4. NFS mount
12. DRAM memory guidelines
13. Swap space

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