unix installation

What Unix do you want to install?
If you give some details, people will be able to help.
There are different types of Unix available in the market.
From your question, it seems like you don't really know much about Unix.
If you want to install on a home PC, you'd be best adviced to get your hands on a Linux distribution (in India you'll get a RedHat Linux in almost any big book store) and start installing it on your home PC.
Let me know if you want to do that.
I'm rather free at present and wouldn't mind spending some time helping.
;)

what flavor of unix you want to install? If you don't have a unix right now try download redhat linux they have step by step of how to install.

Hey..
installing UNIX is pretty easy. Once you have UNIX installed, you can do one of two things. If you're using Linux, try typing "startx." The graphics will pop up, and then you can click on "help" and find the troubleshooter. Or, if you have a text terminal, type "help help" to bring up the help topics.
Then you have to ask yourself, "What is the trouble ?" Is it that the computer doesn't recognize a device ? Like modem, printer, or hard drive, or "card" ? Those types are sometimespretty simple. Maybe the trouble is "a standard tool on the system isn't there." Like the text editor, like vi or emacs, or the man pages. In this case I would reinstall the system, and if the tool doesn't appear, return the package and get another one; it may be defective. It is always possible that a device on your computer may be defective, but not too likely from my experience....
Happy computing !!!

Typically, the installation media will contain a book that details the instructions for installing the operating system.

On Solaris on Unix computers, at the prom prompt, you can boot off the cdrom and it will in turn kick off the installion script.

For Linux systems, the CDROM is often accompanied by a boot floppy, or instructions on how to make a boot floppy from the cdrom on a PC. Once you have both, on the target machine, cycle power (boot) with the boot floppy in the floppy drive,this will chain to the install script on the cdrom.

The install script will ask a number of questions reguarding the install, and will customize the OS for your target platform and for the choices that you have made.

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