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You can't go to a shop and buy Crux off the shelf, not where I live anyway, so you'll have to download it from the Web. Fortunately, it only takes about a third of a CD so if you have a fairly decent Internet connection, which you'll need anyway if you're planning on using this system, you're ready to roll. Maintaining a Crux system, or any kind of Linux system for that matter, relies heavily on an Internet connection[3]. You'll have to download most if not all of your software. A slow telephone line will not do at all, except when you're really patient and don't pay per tick.
The Crux community, and foremost Crux's founder Per Liden, have produced a nice handbook. The first thing you'll do is downloading and, if possible, printing it. That will give you something to read while you download, check and burn the CD image. Reading it before you start is necessary because you'll have to think ahead on a few occasions. When your Armada is the only computer available to you during installation, you'll be glad that you read it and Googled up everything that wasn't clear from the manual.
At a certain point during the installation you're going to have to configure and compile your kernel. The kernel configuration is stored in a file called /usr/src/linux-w.x.y.z./.config where w.x.y.z. is the version number of the kernel. You can download my .config at the section called “Files”. Put it on a USB stick or floppy, you'll need it later on.
[3] Actually, when I started using Crux I didn't have an Internet connection myself. I downloaded stuff at my work onto a 1.4 GB USB stick and compiled and installed everything at home. If you do this, make sure you also download all dependencies.