Installation of JDS is explained at length in Appendix F. Sun also provides complete installation instructions on the Documentation CD that comes with JDS.
You can try out all the features of JDS, without actually installing it on your system. A demo version is provided on the JDS Demonstration CD, included with this book. Simply insert the CD into your CD-ROM drive, power off (shut down) your computer, and restart it.
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Make sure you can boot from the CD-ROM drive if you wish to install JDS from either the full installation package or the demonstration CD. See Appendix F if you have trouble.
The JDS Demonstration CD takes about three minutes to start up on a system with an 800 MHz processor. When you are running JDS from the CD, you cannot save documents or settings, or do anything else that affects your hard disk. However, you can try out all the applications and configuration tools. If you reboot with the CD, all your settings will revert to what you started with. When you reboot your computer without the CD, you will be back in your old operating system as if nothing happened.
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