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PKlinux v.2.0 (mini) 
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Wed Jun 13 15:30:00 PKT 2001

Documentation by Abdul Basit
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Contact: basit@basit.yi.org
         basit@rehan.com


Why PKlinux(mini) ?
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PKlinux(mini) is a very small linux distribution intended for following
purposes :- 

 - As a emergency repair disk for your actual linux/dos as it offer
   many more things beside just a boot/root diskette .
 - For new users who want to try linux/unix in general before
   putting it heavily on their systems(making partitions etc) .
 - The default kernel can mount read/write many filesystems such 
   as NTFS,ext2fs,sco,ufs,cdromfs(with ISO joilet extensions),reiserfs etc
   and that can be used for various purposes according to your needs.

 - It is based on 2.4.5 kernel .
 - Wide range of general/GNU utilities are included and default shell is bash
   2.05 .
 - It supports ppp dialup connections .... and you can ftp/telnet to some
   host also.
 - It supports netfilter 1.2.2 firewall.
 - A default iptables.sh is included that will masquerade connections
 - More hardware is supported ..
 - Check http://www2.linuxpakistan.net/pklinux/pk2-hw.txt for hardware
   supports.

How can I login in PKLinux?
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After extracting the files from the pkmini.zip file into some folder ,
run start.bat .. 
2 user accounts comes up with default distribution 
Username = root   , password = No password 
Username = pklinux, password = pklinux+88

Hey Its based on RAMDISK , Can i make my data persistant?
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Ya , the distibution zip files comesup with pkfs.dat 
This is a raw loopback device file , which can used for putting your data
in some safe position , what you have to do after you 'r login is

mount -t /dev/hdax /mnt

where x = 1 ---> 9 , Replace x so that it corresponds to your DOS partition
where you have put the pkmini.img/pkfs.dat file .

then do 

mount -o loop /mnt/foldername/pkfs.dat /pkdata

where foldername is the directory name that contains your pklinux
distribution files.

now whatever you do in /pkdata will not be lost on reboot.
you have 2.1 MB space to write something in /pkdata


What the hell is this nonsense? 
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If you scream like this , you might be a unix guru or extermely new unix
user. so what can i do for you? nah! :-)

Who is maintainer ?
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Me? no ? why ?
Oh yes i'm the only stupid guy who has much free time to do stupid things
(may be easy) ........ anyway! Maintainer is basit
and this distribution is basically derived from RedHat 6.1 library files
except that i've stripped all local/debug symbols from everything to make
them small .. 

Bye ........... 
Allah Hafiz
Wed Jun 13 15:30:00 PKT 2001