Updated: Sep 1998.
Provides basic information about the Linux operating system,
including an explanation of Linux, a list of features, some
requirements, and some resources.
Updated: Sep 2004.
Aimed at all those who have been using VMS and now need or want to
switch to Linux.
4.1.3. Distributions
Linux From Scratch HOWTO
Describes the process of creating your own Linux system from scratch
from an already installed Linux distribution, using nothing but the
source code of software that we need.
Updated: Apr 2002.
Describes the installation of Linux on a headless Compaq
ProLiant server with a Compaq Remote Insight Lights-Out
Edition card without physical access to the system.
Updated: Dec 2005.
Describes why you should use jigdo (a tool for obtaining Debian ISOs),
a little bit about how it works and how you use it to get and update
Debian ISOs.
Updated: Jul 2006.
Covers some ways on how to install both Linux and Windows NT
on the same computer and how to boot either of them from
within LILO menu.
Updated: Jul 2002.
How to install a Gnu/Linux distribution on a computer without
Ethernet card, nor cdrom, but just a local floppy drive and a remote
nfs server attached by a Null-Modem parallel cable.
Updated: Mar 2003.
A compilation of all the possible boot time arguments that can be
passed to the Linux kernel at boot time. Includes all kernel and
device parameters.
Updated: Jun 2006.
Outlines the procedures for getting the current
PA-RISC/Linux development kernel to boot on your PA-RISC system.
It also explains the functions of PALO, the kernel loader
for PA/Linux.
Updated: Sep 2006.
Discusses how to make the Flash Drives Linux bootable.
Describes how to boot from such a drive, instead of from
the normal hard drive.
Updated: Nov 2000.
A brief description of what happens in a Linux system from the time
that you turn on the power, to the time that you log in and get a
bash prompt.
Updated: Jul 2006.
Lilo (LILO) is the most used Linux Loader for the x86 flavour of
Linux. This describes some typical Lilo installations. Intended
as a supplement to the Lilo User's Guide.
Updated: Feb 2004.
Describes Linux i386 boot code, serving as a study guide and
source commentary. In addition to C-like pseudocode source
commentary, it also presents keynotes of toolchains and specs
related to kernel development.
Updated: Sep 1997.
Describes the use of the Windows NT boot loader to start Linux.
This procedures have been tested with Windows NT 4.0 WS and
Linux 2.0.
Updated: Jan 2002.
How to use the GRUB bootloader to turn
your computer into a Windows + Linux dual boot machine, without
affecting your current Linux installation.
Updated: Nov 2000.
Describes the Alpha Linux Miniloader (also known as MILO), a program
for Alpha-based systems that can be used to initialize the machine
and load Linux.
Updated: Jun 2006.
Outlines the procedures for getting the current
PA-RISC/Linux development kernel to boot on your PA-RISC system.
It also explains the functions of PALO, the kernel loader
for PA/Linux.
Updated: Nov 2000.
Describes how to boot Linux/Alpha using the SRM console, which is
the console firmware also used to boot Compaq Tru64 Unix (also known
as Digital Unix and OSF/1) and OpenVMS.
Updated: Jun 2004.
Discusses the four basic approaches to parallel processing that are
available to Linux users: SMP Linux systems, clusters of networked
Linux systems, parallel execution using multimedia instructions
(i.e., MMX), and attached (parallel) processors hosted by a Linux
system.
Updated: Mar 2004.
Eplains how to create encrypted file systems using the
Cryptoloop functionality. Cryptoloop is part of the CryptoAPI in
the 2.6 Linux kernel series.
Updated: Nov 2004.
A method is described for encrypting a hard disk,
either in whole or in part, with the encryption key stored
on an external medium for increased security.
Updated: Mar 2005.
Describes the usage of SquashFS - a highly-compressed
file system for Linux, which is intended for use in tiny/embedded
Linux systems, as well as for read-only archiving and general
in-file system compression.
Updated: May 2002.
Describes how to install, configure, and maintain a hardware RAID built
around the 5070 SBUS host based RAID controller by Antares Microsystems.
Updated: May 2002.
Explains how to install Linux on an Intel
Pentium compatible computer with an ATA RAID Controller (onboard chip
or seperate card), single or multiple processors and at least two hard
disks.
Updated: Jul 2000.
This document only applies to the OLD raidtools, versions 0.50
and under. The workarounds and solutions addressed in this HOWTO
have largely been made obsolete by the vast improvment in the 0.90
raidtools and accompanying kernel patch to the 2.0.37, 2.2x and
2.3x series kernels. You may find the detailed descriptions
useful, particularly if you plan to run root raid or use initrd.
original description:
A cookbook for creating a root mounted raid filesystem and companion
fallback rescue system using linux initrd. Step-by-step instructions
for both raid1 and raid5 md0 devices.
Updated: Jun 2004.
How to use Software RAID under Linux. It addresses a specific
version of the Software RAID layer, namely the 0.90 RAID layer made
by Ingo Molnar and others. This is the RAID layer that will be
standard in Linux-2.4, and it is the version that is also used by
Linux-2.2 kernels shipped from some vendors. The 0.90 RAID support
is available as patches to Linux-2.0 and Linux-2.2, and is by many
considered far more stable that the older RAID support already in
those kernels.
Updated: Nov 1998.
How to use Software RAID under Linux. RAID stands for "Redundant
Array of Inexpensive Disks". For users of the Linux MD kernel
extension, the associated tools, and their use. This HOWTO addresses
an earlier implementation.
Updated: Jul 2005.
Demonstrates how to use command-line tools to configure your
Debian system for printing. It explains how to send documents from Linux
to Windows printers and how to share Linux printers with Windows PCs.
Updated: Nov 2003.
Creating and controlling terminal and xterm prompts is discussed,
including incorporating standard escape sequences to give username,
current working directory, time, etc.
Updated: Nov 1999.
RPM is the RPM Package Manager. It is an open packaging
system available for anyone to use. It allows users to take source
code for new software and package it into source and binary form such
that binaries can be easily installed and tracked and source can be
rebuilt easily. It also maintains a database of all packages and their
files that can be used for verifying packages and querying for
information about files and/or packages.
