Network card??”If you are doing an install of one of the distributions for which we provide
a scaled-down boot disk, you might need to have an Ethernet card installed to get
the software you need over the network. A dial-up connection won??™t work for network
installs. You don??™t have to be connected to the Internet necessarily to do a network
install. Some people will download the necessary software packages to a computer on
their LAN, and then use that as an install server.
Disk space??”You should have at least 3GB of disk space for the average GNOME or
KDE desktop, although installations can range (depending on which packages you choose
to install) from 600MB (for a minimal server with no GUI install) to 7GB (to install all
packages).
If you??™re not sure about your computer hardware, there are a few ways to check what you have. If
you are running Windows, the System Properties window can show you the processor you have,
as well as the amount of RAM that??™s installed. As an alternative, you can boot KNOPPIX and let it
detect and report to you the hardware you have. (See Chapter 5 for instructions on running the
lspci and dmseg commands in Linux to view information about your computer hardware.)
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Upgrading or Installing from Scratch
If you already have a version of the Linux you are installing on your computer, many Linux distributions
offer an upgrade option.
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