GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams
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Dell OptiPlex GX1p (Plymouth)

Installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r2 from CD-ROM 21 (September 2001) then immediately upgraded to unstable and installed packages from unstable as required.

Plymouth is a single boot machine with no NTFS partitions and a single 10GB hard disk:

        Partition 9.5GB as linux ext2 /dev/hda1
        Partition 500MB as linux swap /dev/hda2
        Write partition table

Subsections

• Plymouth Specifications
• Plymouth Install