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Some amount of grammar and spelling errors should be
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- [Jan 7, 2000] Linux Article
-- Kickstart
-
Your company just bought 30 new machines, and it’s
your job to install Linux on them. If you’re using Red Hat Linux, the
kickstart install process can save you a lot of time.
Kickstart automates the install process, so that it
becomes as simple as putting the floppy in, turning the machine on, and
coming back 15 minutes later. Kickstart is especially useful if you
have a number of machines with similar configurations. In the simplest
case, all you need is an up-to-date boot floppy, a kickstart config
file, and an installation CD-ROM. For trickier installs, you might also
need a DHCP or bootp server, an NFS server, and a DNS server.
A kickstart installation requires that you predefine
all necessary installation data in a kickstart config file. The
kickstart config file can be split into three parts — the preinstall,
the packages, and the post-install.
The preinstall section of the config file is used to
answer the questions that are usually asked before the install starts.
The options, which will be described below, are: lang, network, {nfs|cdrom|url|harddrive},
{device|noprobe}, keyboard, zerombr, clearpart, part, {install|upgrade},
mouse, timezone, {xconfig|skipx}, rootpw, auth, lilo. See “Configuration
Options” for a description of the preinstall section options.
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/KickStart-HOWTO.html
- [Jan 7, 2000] Linux You Can Install and Run In A DOS Partition: Good
Enough For Basic Use By Trevor Marshall
- [Jan 7, 2000] Running Linux In A DOS Partition By Trevor Marshall
- [June 17, 1999] EDN
Access--04.29.1999 Linux installation tips
- [May 21, 1999] The
Beginners Linux Guide @ ILUG
- Linux World Slicing
and dicing -- The basics of running a second OS with a partitioned
hard drive
- WindowsLinux
Dual Boot LG #38
- Adding a Second
IDE Hard Drive LG #38
- ichNET - Internet
computer help Network
- 32BitsOnline.com
- A GNULinux Scientific Workstation [Feature ArticlesReviewsSoftware]
- 32BitsOnline.com
- A GNULinux Scientific Workstation [Feature ArticlesReviewsSoftware]
- Linux Knowledge Base
-- an assortment of technical documents relating to Linux. There is a
searchable index and content includes HOWTO's, security advisories,
mailing lists and other items
- [November 27, 1998] Linux/etc
Using Linux in a multi-OS world part 1 of 2
- [November 17, 1998] Unix links
- [November 11, 1998] Woven Goods for Linux -- a nice
site, with a lot of info on WEB servers
In Russian
Nexus NDG
LINUX Page (in Russian)
Josh's Linux
Guide -- contains several useful essays
- Configuring
and Troubleshooting X
- Linux
Commands
- Installing
Software Packages
- Introduction
- Linux
Basics and Tips
- Modifying
Your Partitions and Help on LILO
- Using
'chmod'
- Using
RPM
Linux Installation and operation
TCP/IP
Communications
Crypto and security
Other notes
- Config HOWTO,
by Guido Gonzato <guido@ibogfs.cineca.it>. How to fine-tune and
customize your Linux system. Updated 10 April 1998.
- Path mini-HOWTO,
by Esa Turtiainen <etu@dna.fi>. How to use the PATH environment
variable. Updated 15 November 1997.
- Bash
Prompt HOWTO by Giles Orr <giles@interlog.com>. Creating and
controlling
terminal and xterm prompts. Updated 1 December 1998 .
- DOS/Win
to Linux HOWTO, by Guido Gonzato <guido@ibogfs.cineca.it>. How
to move from DOS/Windows to Linux. Updated 15 April 1998.
- xterm
Title mini-HOWTO, by Ric Lister <ric@giccs.georgetown.edu>. How
to put strings into the titlebar of an xterm. Updated 7 January 1998.
- Tips HOWTO,
by Paul Anderson <paul@geeky1.ebtech.net>. HOWTO on miscellaneous
tips and tricks for Linux. Updated June 1998.
- Clock mini-HOWTO,
by Ron Bean <rbean@execpc.com>. How to set and keep your clock on
time. Updated December 1996.
- Update mini-HOWTO,
by Stein Gjoen <sgjoen@nyx.net>. How to stay updated about Linux
development. Updated 3 February 1998.
- Upgrade
mini-HOWTO, by Greg Louis <glouis@dynamicro.on.ca>. How to
upgrade your Linux distribution. Updated 6 June 1996.
- Kernel HOWTO,
by Brian Ward <ward@blah.math.tu-graz.ac.at>. Upgrading and
compiling the Linux kernel. Updated 26 May 1997.
- RPM HOWTO,
by Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>. How to use the Red Hat Package
Manager (.rpm). Updated 8 April 1997.
- Hard
Disk Upgrade mini-HOWTO, by Yves Bellefeuille <yan@ottawa.com>.
How to copy a Linux system from one hard disk to another. Updated 31
January 1998.
- RPM+Slackware
mini-HOWTO, by Dave Whitinger <dave@whitinger.net>. How to
install the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) under Slackware. Updated 13
April 1998.
-
Ethernet
Setting
Up Ethernet -- very good. The site Josh's Linux Guide
contains other useful documents. Highly recommended.
Linux at CESDIS -- by Donald Becker
Ethernet HOWTO,
by Paul Gortmaker <gpg109@rsphy1.anu.edu.au>. Information on Ethernet
hardware compatibility for Linux. Updated 6 July 1998.
Linux NET-3-HOWTO
IP
Masquerading mini-HOWTO
Kernel HOWTO,
by Brian Ward <ward@blah.math.tu-graz.ac.at>. Upgrading and compiling the
Linux kernel. Updated 26 May 1997.
| Three rules for successful repartitioning
Rule 1. Make a full backup of the disk or at least the most
important files
Better to have a full backup and not need it than not have a backup and
find you needed it. Please remember that files destroyed during
repartitioning are very difficult to recover -- backup time is really
tiny in comparison with efforts you will need in case something go
wrong...
Rule 2. Read the instructions
Partitioning isn't a crucial operation and errors are very costly. Do
not try to do intuitively. Even if you've done it before, it pays to
review the documentation. And if you've never done it before, or do it
rarely, read those instructions closely.
Rule 3. Follow the instructions! Do not
improvise during repartitioning |
- WindowsLinux
Dual Boot LG #38
- Linux
Partition HOWTO
-
- Partition
mini-HOWTO, by Kristian Koehntopp <kris@koehntopp.de>. How
to choose disk partitions. Updated 3 November 1997.
- Automount
mini-HOWTO, by Don <don@sabotage.org>. This file describes
the autofs automounter, how to configure it, and points out some
problems to avoid. Updated 7 September 1998.
- Multi-Disk
HOWTO, by Stein Gjoen <sgjoen@nyx.net>. How to setup
multiple hard disk drives. Updated 3 February 1998.
- Hard
Disk Upgrade mini-HOWTO, by Yves Bellefeuille <yan@ottawa.com>.
How to copy a Linux system from one hard disk to another. Updated 31
January 1998.
- Large
Disk mini-HOWTO, by Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>. How to
use disks with > 1024 cylinders. Updated 18 May 1998.
- Small
Memory mini-HOWTO, by Todd Burgess <tburgess@uoguelph.ca>.
How to run Linux on a system with a small amount of memory. Update
29 October 1997.
- ZIP
Drive mini-HOWTO, by Kyle Dansie <dansie@ibm.net>.
Provides a quick reference quide on setting up and using the Iomega
ZIP drive with Linux. Updated 26 August 1998.
- VAIO
mini-HOWTO, by Hideki Saito <hideki@chatlink.com>. This
document explains installation of Linux on Sony VAIO computers.
Updated 16 September 1998.
The Linux Documentation Project have
some documents that give in depth description of swap space issues.
The Multi Disk HOWTO which
is very much about tuning in general. It is way to big to quote here so I'
rather suggest the interested readers look at the following chapters listed
below (straight from the Multi Disk HOWTO homepage):
Note that the swap partiotn limit in old kernels depends on the architecture
of the processor, namely if it is a 32- or 64-bits processor.
Ask
SlashdotAsk Slashdot Linux and Swap Optimization
by MikeBabcock on Friday July 09, @12:52AM EDT (#79)
(User
Info) http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~pgp/
If you have 128M of ram, for now, create two 64M (or 128M
if you can spare the space, but I wouldn't) swap partitions on two different
drives. If you have only one drive, make it a 128M partition near the
beginning ...
Partitions:
/boot
SWAP
... others ...
... this way your kernel files are always in the first 1024 cylinders but
your swap is at the fastest part of older disks (newer disks use scattering
to make all reads and writes the same speed).
If you use two disks, and assuming the load on both is about the same, set
the priorities to be equal in /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults,pri=1 0 0
/dev/hdc2 swap swap defaults,pri=1 0 0
This way the Linux kernel automatically uses both partitions simultaneously
for faster reads and writes. If your hard drive isn't doing anything else,
you'll get twice the speed out of this.
Again, with 128M of ram, you only need 128M of swap, even for most mid-level
server apps. If you want to run Slashdot on your PC, you might need more :)
...
... leave some unpartitioned space in the middle of your drive to add swap to
later if you need to ... (or to quickly partition and back up data to if
another partition craps out).
- Michael
Jim Frost
There's been a lot of talk about the old limits and why
they were there and whatnot. Here's a little technical background as well as
my own rules-of-thumb on size and location.
The old "2x" rule of thumb was always silly. What was important was
that it was *at least* 1x. Why? Not because the kernel dumped core into the
swap (which was true, but almost nobody really cared to grope through the
dump so it was usually immaterial), but because every page of physical memory
had a shadow page in swap. This was an important performance optimization.
First, realize that in most cases UNIX systems had only about half as much
RAM as would be needed to hold everything running in RAM (even ignoring
cache). 100% overcommit was *normal*; you just couldn't afford enough memory.
On such systems swap performance could make or break a system.
BSD systems (and others) would start writing pages to swap long before memory
space was exhausted, but keep the pages in memory as well. If the system
suddenly needed more RAM to satisfy a request, any pages already written to
disk could be grabbed immediately since they could be restored from swap
later if necessary. If the application decided it needed the page before that
happened, it was still there. Thus you could seriously overcommit memory
without having much impact on performance.
Lots of people get worried about the performance impact of the (possibly)
unnecessary page writes. I've never understood that; the way these systems
work is you go tell the controller to do the write, then you go back to doing
what you were doing and it'll let you know when it's done. Thus unless you're
maxing out your controller/disk there is almost no penalty for doing it --
and it's a huge, huge win when you need RAM fast.
Some systems (notably Windows 95) don't start writing pages until they need
more RAM. Doing this makes application performance synchronous with swap
performance in overcommit situations -- and as we all know, that's going to
suck royally. The upside to this approach is that the performance of the
machine is maximized when everything *does* fit -- you're not doing any extra
work -- and disk footprint of the system is minimized (a big deal when disks
were a really big part of the cost of the whole system).
Assuming that what people here have been saying is true, that Linux swap
space is additive, then my guess is that it uses a pool system such that it
sets a low-water mark on free pages such that it starts shadowing pages when
the low-water mark is exceeded. This management system goes under the
assumption that there's some number of pages you might need immediately, but
that's smaller than the total available page pool. That was usually true even
in the old BSD days and is most definitely true today (what with everybody's
desktop having 64MB or more, what luxury).
Anyway this approach provides the best of both worlds: if you have enough
memory to keep the free page pool below the low-water limit then you don't do
any extra work, but if you're running in a tight or overcommit mode you
usually have a bunch of pages that you can steal fast if you need them. But
beware the situation where total VM use exceeds real memory plus swap minus
free page pool size -- you'll start swapping synchronously as the ability of
the system to shadow pages disappears.
My rule of thumb, now as always, is to set swap such that the total VM space
is roughly twice what I think I'll ever need in day-to-day operations, but at
least as large as RAM.
Why that big? Because sometimes you blow right through your typical VM usage
and it's better to have the machine respond slowly than to have things fail.
Now that disk is cheap there's not much reason not to just pick a pretty big
number.
As for why make it as large as RAM, well, call it superstition. Quite a
number of VM systems on the market today (most particularly Windows NT)
perform quite poorly if you don't have at least as much swap as RAM, and some
even limit available RAM to the size of swap if you do that (as BSD used to
do). Since I don't always have the time (or sometimes even the documentation)
to figure out which ones use which policy I just pick a number large enough
that it can't ever be a problem.
Now, about swap location. Ideally you have a whole disk dedicated to swap,
but these days disks are so large that you couldn't realistically make use of
a whole disk (or even a tenth of one) for swap unless you're working with
some really serious datasets.
So pretty much everyone splits up their disk.
So far in replies I've heard recommendations for putting the swap at the low
cylinders, middle, and high. There are two things you trade off in position
-- data transfer rate and head movement.
If you put the swap at the outside or inside of the disk you're going to be
moving the heads a long way any time you need to swap a page, assuming that
one or another filesystems on the disk is in regular use (typically the
case). On the outside, however, you may get some of that back because data
transfer rates are the highest. Putting it on the inside (low cylinder
numbers) is idiotic -- they have the slowest transfer rates *and* you usually
have to move the heads a lot. Modern disks are so fast that this isn't really
much of a problem, but it's so easy to avoid that there's no reason to do it.
I suggest putting it somewhere in the middle, preferably between your two
most active partitions. Since the swap partition is usually relatively small
compared to filesystems you don't make seek time that much longer between
filesystems, and you ensure that you're pretty close to the swap partition
all the time.
Lastly, we've heard comments that claiming both that swapping to a file is
slower than swapping to a partition, and that that's not true. It *is* true.
Large files (eg a swap file) will be fragmented somewhat, forcing additional
disk/head movement in some cases, and you'll also have to deal with metadata
describing where on the disk the file blocks are. This eats up both in-system
filesystem cache and causes additional disk activity while you load metadata
that's not in the cache.
Swapping to a file is something I'd do in an emergency or if you need more
swap and can't justify repartitioning or adding a new disk. If you can plan
ahead of time you should avoid it, it will always be somewhat slower,
although realistically speaking with today's systems you might not be able to
tell.
(I feel like an old fogey. You wouldn't believe how cool I think it is that I
can have pretty much as much memory and disk as I want. Why, when I was a
young hacker, we had to swap our programs to paper using a pencil....)
- BackSpace and Delete
Configuration for Linux (VT, xterm, bash, tcsh, netscape and more)
- Bash
Prompt HOWTO by Giles Orr <giles@interlog.com>. Creating and
controlling
terminal and xterm prompts. Updated 1 December 1998 .
- The
Linux keyboard and console HOWTO Delete and Backspace
- Keyboard
and Console HOWTO, by Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>. Information
about the Linux keyboard, console and non-ASCII characters. Updated 25
February 1998.
- Text-Terminal
HOWTO, by David S. Lawyer <bf347@lafn.org>. This document
explains what text terminals are, how they work, how to install and
configure them. Updated November 1998.
- 3
Button Mouse mini-HOWTO, by Geoff Short <geoff@kipper.york.ac.uk>.
How to configure your mouse to use 3 buttons. Updated 31 May 1998.
See also:
Home
Server with Linux - document that explains how to share a modem and printer
with a Windows 95 machine
- NET-3 HOWTO,
by Terry Dawson <terry@perf.no.itg.telecom.com.au>. Howto configure
TCP/IP networking under Linux. Updated August 1998.
- Networking
Overview HOWTO, by Daniel López Ridruejo <ridruejo@esi.us.es>.
The purpose of this document is to give an overview of the networking
capabilities of the Linux Operating System providing pointers for further
information and implementation details. Updated 10 July 1998.
- Ethernet
HOWTO, by Paul Gortmaker <gpg109@rsphy1.anu.edu.au>. Information
on Ethernet hardware compatibility for Linux. Updated 6 July 1998.
- ISP
Hookup HOWTO, by Egil Kvaleberg <egil@kvaleberg.no>. Basic
introduction to hooking up to an ISP. Updated 5 March 1998.
- ISP
Connectivity mini-HOWTO, by Michael Strates <mstrates@croftj.net>.
How to get mail and news over a dialup connection. Updated 6 November
1997.
- DNS HOWTO,
by Nicolai Langfeldt <janl@math.uio.no>. How to set up DNS. Updated
12 November 1998.
- DHCP mini-HOWTO,
by Vladimir Vuksan <vuksan@veus.hr>. How to setup a DHCP Server and
Client. Updated 14 November 1998.
- Firewall
HOWTO, by Mark Grennan <markg@netplus.net>. How to set up a
firewall using Linux. Updated 8 November 1996.
- IPCHAINS
HOWTO, by Paul Russell <Paul.Russell@rustcorp.com.au>. Install
and configure the enhanced IP firewalling chains software. Updated 27
October 1998.
- IPX HOWTO,
by Terry Dawson <terry@perf.no.itg.telecom.com.au>. How to install
and configure IPX networking. Updated 06 May 1998.
- Intranet
Server HOWTO, by Pramod Karnad <karnad@indiamail.com>. How to
setup a Linux Intranet server. Updated 7 August 1997.
- Mail HOWTO,
by Guylhem Aznar <guylhem@danmark.linux.eu.org>. Information on
electronic mail servers and clients. Updated January 1998.
- Multicast
HOWTO, by Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@dit.upm.es>. This
HOWTO tries to cover most aspects related to multicast over TCP/IP
networks. Updated 20 March 1998.
- NFS HOWTO,
by Nicolai Langfeldt <janl@math.uio.no>. How to set up NFS clients
and servers. Updated 3 November 1997.
- NIS HOWTO,
by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@vt.uni-paderborn.de>. Information on using
NIS/YP on Linux systems. Updated 12 June 1998.
- PPP HOWTO,
by Robert Hart <hartr@interweft.com.au>. Information on using PPP
networking with Linux. Updated 31 March 1997.
- SMB HOWTO,
by David Wood <dwood@plugged.net.au>. How to use the Session Message
Block (SMB) protocol with Linux. Updated 10 August 1996.
- UUCP HOWTO,
by Guylhem Aznar <guylhem@danmark.linux.eu.org>. Information on UUCP
software for Linux. Updated 6 February 1998.
- Bridge mini-HOWTO,
by Chris Cole <cole@lynkmedia.com>. How to setup an ethernet bridge.
Updated 7 September 1998.
- Bridge+Firewall
mini-HOWTO, by Peter Breuer <ptb@it.uc3m.es>. How to setup and
ethernet bridge and firewall. Updated 19 December 1997.
- IP Alias
mini-HOWTO, by Harish Pillay <h.pillay@ieee.org>. How to use IP
aliasing. Updated 13 January 1997.
- IP
Masquerade mini-HOWTO, by Ambrose Au <ambrose@writeme.com>. How
to use IP masquerading. Updated 10 November 1997.
- IP
Subnetworking mini-HOWTO, by Robert Hart <hartr@interweft.com.au>.
Why and how to subnetwork an IP network. Updated 31 March 1997.
How-TOs
- Pre-installation
Checklist mini-HOWTO, by S. Parthasarathy <algolog@hd1.vsnl.net.in>.
Pre-installation checklist and questionnaire. Updated 29 August 1998.
- Partition
mini-HOWTO, by Kristian Koehntopp <kris@koehntopp.de>. How to
choose disk partitions. Updated 3 November 1997.
- Installation
HOWTO, by Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>. How to obtain
and install Linux. Updated 20 November 1998.
- Kernel HOWTO,
by Brian Ward <ward@blah.math.tu-graz.ac.at>. Upgrading and
compiling the Linux kernel. Updated 26 May 1997.
- BootPrompt
HOWTO, by Paul Gortmaker <gpg109@rsphy1.anu.edu.au>. List of
boot time arguments and overview of booting software. Updated 1 February
1998.
- Bootdisk
HOWTO, by Tom Fawcett <fawcett@croftj.net>. How to create a
boot/root maintenance disk for Linux. Updated 1 February 1998.
- KickStart
HOWTO, by Martin Hamilton <martinh@gnu.org>. Briefly describes
how to use the RedHat Linux KickStart system to rapidly install large
numbers of identical Linux boxes. Updated 28 September 1998.
- Multi-Disk
HOWTO, by Stein Gjoen <sgjoen@nyx.net>. How to setup multiple
hard disk drives. Updated 3 February 1998.
- Linux+DOS+Win95+OS2
mini-HOWTO, by Mike Harlan <r3mdh@raex.com>. How to use Linux
and DOS and OS/2 and Win95 together. Updated 11 November 1997.
- Install
From ZIP mini-HOWTO, by Kevin Snively <k.snively@seaslug.org>.
How to install Linux from a parallel port ZIP drive. Updated 29 April
1998.
- Loadlin+Win95
mini-HOWTO, by Chris Fischer <protek@brigadoon.com>. How to use
Linux and Windows95 together, using loadlin. Updated 9 November 1998.
- LILO mini-HOWTO,
by Alessandro Rubini <rubini@linux.it>. Examples of typical LILO
installations. Updated 16 August 1998.
- Large
Disk mini-HOWTO, by Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>. How to use
disks with > 1024 cylinders. Updated 18 May 1998.
- Linux+NT-Loader
mini-HOWTO, by Bernd Reichert <reichert@dial.eunet.ch>. How to
use Linux and the Windows NT boot loader together. Updated 2 September
1997.
- Linux+Win95
mini-HOWTO, by Jonathan Katz <jkatz@in.net>. How to use Linux
and Windows95 together. Updated 26 October 1996.
- Multiboot
using LILO mini-HOWTO, by Renzo Zanelli <rzanelli@southeast.net>.
Howto multiboot between Windows 95, Windows NT, and Linux. Updated 26
March 1998.
- Kerneld
mini-HOWTO, by Henrik Storner <storner@osiris.ping.dk>. How to
use 'kerneld' (dynamic module loading). Updated 19 July 1997.
- ZIP
Install mini-HOWTO, by John Wiggins <jwiggins@comp.uark.edu>.
How to install Linux onto a ZIP drive. Updated 26 January 1998.
- ZIP Drive
mini-HOWTO, by Kyle Dansie <dansie@ibm.net>. Provides a quick
reference quide on setting up and using the Iomega ZIP drive with Linux.
Updated 26 August 1998.
- CDROM HOWTO,
by Jeff Tranter <jeff_tranter@pobox.com>. Information on CDROM drive
compatibility for Linux. Updated 23 January 1998.
- Ethernet
HOWTO, by Paul Gortmaker <gpg109@rsphy1.anu.edu.au>. Information
on Ethernet hardware compatibility for Linux. Updated 6 July 1998.
- ZIP Drive
mini-HOWTO, by Kyle Dansie <dansie@ibm.net>. Provides a quick
reference quide on setting up and using the Iomega ZIP drive with Linux.
Updated 26 August 1998.
- Serial HOWTO,
by David Lawyer <bf347@lafn.org>. How on use serial devices (modems,
terminals) with Linux. Updated July 1998.
- Busmouse
HOWTO, by Chris Bagwell <cbagwell@sprynet.com>. Information on
bus mouse compatibility with Linux. Updated 15 June 1998.
- Hardware
Compatibility HOWTO, by Patrick Reijnen <antispam.patrickr@antispam.bart.nl>.
A list of hardware known to work with Linux. Updated 30 July 1998.
- PCI HOWTO,
by Michael Will <Michael.Will@student.uni-tuebingen.de>. Information
on PCI-architecture compatibility with Linux. Updated 30 March 1997.
- CD
Writing HOWTO, by Winfried Trümper <winni@xpilot.org>. How to
write CDs. Updated 16 December 1997.
- PCMCIA HOWTO,
by Dave Hinds <dhinds@allegro.stanford.edu>. How to install and use
PCMCIA Card Services. Updated 13 August 1998.
- Optical
Disk HOWTO, by Skip Rye <Skip_Rye@faneuil.com>. How to use
optical disk drives with Linux. Updated 1 September 1998.
- Plug
and Play HOWTO, by David Lawyer <bf347@lafn.org>. How to get
your Linux system to support Plug-and-Play. Updated November 1998.
- Sound HOWTO,
by Jeff Tranter <jeff_tranter@pobox.com>. Sound hardware and
software for the Linux operating system. Updated 23 January 1998.
- Cable
Modem mini-HOWTO, by Vladimir Vuksan <vuksan@veus.hr>. How to
use a cable modem with a cable ISP. Updated 10 October 1998.
- UPS HOWTO,
by Harvey J. Stein <abel@netvision.net.il>. Information on using a
UPS power supply with Linux. Updated 18 November 1997.
- XFree86
HOWTO, by Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>. How to
obtain, install, and configure XFree86 3.2 (X11R6). Updated 27 October
1998.
- XFree86
Video Timings HOWTO, by Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>.
How to compose a mode line for XFree86. Updated 20 February 1998.
- X Big
Cursor mini-HOWTO, by Joerg Schneider <schneid@ira.uka.de>. How
to use enlarged cursors with XWindows. Updated 11 August 1997.
- XFree86-XInside
mini-HOWTO, by Marco Melgazzi <marco@techie.com>. How to convert
XFree86 to XInside modelines. Updated September 1997.
- Here are some useful programs for debugging:
- SuperProbe -- attempts to determine your video hardware
- Xconfigurator -- creates /etc/X11/XF86Config
- xf86config -- another program to create XF86Config
Other Useful mini-HOWTOs
The following mini-HOWTOs are available:
- Apache
SSL PHP/FI frontpage mini-HOWTO, by Marcus Faure <marcus@faure.de>.
Build a multipurpose webserver. Updated July 1998.
- Battery
Powered mini-HOWTO, by Hanno Mueller <hanno@lava.de>. How to
reduce a Linux system's power consumption. Updated 21 December 1997.
- Bzip2 mini-HOWTO,
by David Fetter <dfetter@best.com>. How to use the new bzip2
compression program. Updated 29 June 1998.
- Colour ls
mini-HOWTO, by Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@dit.ou.dk>. How to
set up the colours with 'ls'. Updated 7 August 1997.
- Cyrus
IMAP mini-HOWTO, by Kevin Mitchell <kevin@iserv.net>. How to
install the Cyrus IMAP server. Updated 21 January 1998.
- DPT
Hardware RAID mini-HOWTO, by Ram Samudrala <me@ram.org>. How to
configure hardware RAID. Updated 15 December 1997.
- Diald mini-HOWTO,
by Harish Pillay <h.pillay@ieee.org>. How to use 'diald' to dial an
ISP. Updated 3 June 1996.
- Diskless
mini-HOWTO, by Robert Nemkin <buci@math.klte.hu>. How to set up
a diskless Linux box. Updated 12 September 1996.
- Firewall
Piercing mini-HOWTO, by François-René Rideau <rideau@ens.fr>.
Using ppp over telnet transparently through an Internet firewall. Updated
22 August 1998.
- LBX mini-HOWTO,
by Paul D. Smith <psmith@baynetworks.com>. How to use Low-Bandwidth
X (LBX). Updated 11 December 1997.
- Leased
Line mini-HOWTO, by Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.webster.nl>.
How to setup leased line modems. Updated July 1998.
- Linux+FreeBSD
mini-HOWTO, by Niels Kristian Bech Jensen <nkbj@image.dk> How to
use Linux and FreeBSD together. Updated 18 June 1998.
- Mail
Queue mini-HOWTO, by Leif Erlingsson <leif@lege.com>. How to
queue remote mail and deliver local mail. Updated 3 September 1997.
- Mail2News
mini-HOWTO, by Robert Hart <iweft@ipax.com.au>. How to set up a
mail to news gateway. Updated 4 November 1996.
- Modules
mini-HOWTO, by Riley H. Williams <rhw@bigfoot.com>. How to setup
and configure kernel modules. Updated 14 November 1997.
- NCD X
Terminal mini-HOWTO, by Ian Hodge <ihodge@nortel.ca>. Describes
how to connect an NCD X terminal to a UNIX host. Updated 3 April 1998.
- NFS-Root
mini-HOWTO, by Andreas Kostyrka <andreas@ag.or.at>. How to set
up diskless Linux machines. Updated 8 August 1997.
- NFS-Root-Client
mini-HOWTO, by Ofer Maor <ofer@hadar.co.il>. How to set up
diskless Linux machines using NFS. Updated 1 July 1997.
- Netrom-Node
mini-HOWTO, by Karl Larsen <k5di@yahoo.com>. How to setup the
ax25-utilities package for Amateur Radio such making Netrom Nodes. Updated
19 October 1998.
- Netscape+Proxy
mini-HOWTO, by Sarma Seetamraju <sarma@usa.net>. How to set up a
proxy server for Netscape. Updated 15 August 1997.
- Netstation
mini-HOWTO, by Kris Buytaert <Kris.Buytaert@advalvas.be>. How to
hook up a IBM Netstation to your local network using a Linux box as
server. Updated 22 February 1998.
- News
Leafsite mini-HOWTO, by Florian Kuehnert <sutok@gmx.de>. How to
set up a leaf news site. Updated 4 January 1998.
- Offline
Mailing mini-HOWTO, by Gunther Voet <freaker@tuc.ml.org>. How to
set up email addresses without a dedicated Internet connection. Updated 4
June 1998.
- PLIP mini-HOWTO,
by Andrea Controzzi <controzz@cli.di.unipi.it>. How to set up PLIP
(Parallel Line Interface Protocol). Updated 12 March 1998.
- Proxy
ARP Subnet mini-HOWTO, by Bob Edwards <bob@faceng.anu.edu.au>.
How to use proxy ARP with subnetting. Updated August 1997.
- Public
Web Browser mini-HOWTO, by Donald B. Marti Jr. <dmarti@best.com>.
How to set up a guest account to use a WWW browser. Updated 5 January
1998.
- Qmail+MH
mini-HOWTO, by Christopher Richardson <rdn@tara.n.eunet.de>. How
to install qmail and MH. Updated 5 March 1998.
- Quota mini-HOWTO,
by Albert M.C. Tam <bertie@scn.org>. How to set up disk quotas.
Updated 8 August 1997.
- RedHat CD
mini-HOWTO, by Morten Kjeldgaard <mok@imsb.au.dk> Peter von der
Ahé <pahe+rhcd@daimi.au.dk>. How to make your own CDs from the Red
Hat Linux distribution equivalent to the ones commercially available from
Red Hat. Updated 9 September 1998.
- Remote
Boot mini-HOWTO, by Marc Vuilleumier Stückelberg <Marc.VuilleumierStuckelberg@cui.unige.ch>.
How to set up a server-based boot selector. Updated June 1998.
- Remote
X Apps mini-HOWTO, by Vincent Zweije <zweije@xs4all.nl>. How to
run remote X applications. Updated 14 July 1998.
- SLIP-PPP
Emulator mini-HOWTO, by Irish <irish@eskimo.com>. How to use
SLIP-PPP emulators with Linux. Updated 7 August 1997.
- Sendmail
Address Rewrite mini-HOWTO, by Thomas Roessler <roessler@guug.de>.
Set up sendmail's configuration file for the home user's dial-up access.
Updated 6 May 1998.
- Sendmail+UUCP
mini-HOWTO, by Jamal Hadi Salim <jamal@glcom.com>. How to use
sendmail and UUCP together. Updated August 1998.
- Software
Building mini-HOWTO, by Mendel Leo Cooper <thegrendel@theriver.com>.
How to build software packages. Updated 6 July 1998.
- Software
RAID mini-HOWTO, by Linas Vepstas <linas@fc.net>. How to
configure software RAID. Updated 21 November 1998.
- Soundblaster
AWE mini-HOWTO, by Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>.
How to install the Soundblaster AWE 32/64. Updated 11 January 1998.
- TkRat mini-HOWTO,
by Dave Whitinger <dave@whitinger.net>. How to install and use the
TkRat mail program. Updated 2 February 1998.
Cyrillication
- slackl.cargolink.cnt.ru
-- collection of russian documentation
- Cyrillic
HOWTO, by Alexander L. Belikoff <abel@bfr.co.il>. How to
configure Linux for use with the Cyrillic characterset. Updated 23 January
1998.
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