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3. Installation

From within the toplevel directory, issue these commands:

  1. su root
  2. ./configure
  3. make

    This creates copies of your /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf and places them in the Replacements subdirectory with a few modifications, explained below.

  4. make install

    Note that it will try to install copies of Bootdisk_Contents and Config.pl. If you have used a previous version of Yard, you may already have copies of these installed that you don't want overwritten. It will ask before overwriting any file; simply answer "no" in this case.

By default, the configure script will install files in the following directories:

  Perl programs:                     /sbin
  Replacement and extras dirs:       /etc/yard
  Yard configuration files:          /etc/yard
    (Config.pl and Bootdisk_contents)

These defaults are based on my interpretation of the Linux File System Standard (FSSTND). If you don't like these, change the three directory definitions at the beginning of the configure script.


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