<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >What next...?</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.57"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="GNU/Linux pre-installation checklist" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Linux pre-installation checklist" HREF="checklist.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >GNU/Linux pre-installation checklist</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="checklist.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" > </TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="INSTALL" >3. What next...?</A ></H1 ><P > <A NAME="AEN395" ></A ><TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="100%" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" CLASS="BLOCKQUOTE" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" VALIGN="TOP" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" VALIGN="TOP" ><P >Even the longest journey has to start with a small first-step.</P ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" VALIGN="TOP" > </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD COLSPAN="2" ALIGN="RIGHT" VALIGN="TOP" >--<SPAN CLASS="ATTRIBUTION" >Confucious</SPAN ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" > </TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > Now that you have taken the first step of filling up the checklist, you would like to prepare for the real installation. Here are a few tips, for starters: <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P > A very good installation guide is <A HREF="http://www.xmission.com/~howardm/install.html" TARGET="_top" >here.</A > You must visit this excellent site. It also gives tips to find answers for some of the questions asked in the pre-installation checklist (e.g. video cards, monitor, chipset, modem, ...etc.). </P ></LI ><LI ><P > The official Installation HOWTO is <A HREF="http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Installation-HOWTO/index.html" TARGET="_top" >here.</A > </P ></LI ></UL > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="checklist.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" > </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Linux pre-installation checklist</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" > </TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >