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Copyright (c) 2007 by Miroslav "Misko" Skoric, YT7MPB.
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You are strongly recommended to take a backup of
your system before major installation and backups
at regular intervals.
In addition to the Lilo docs, there are a number
of mini-howto's that can be useful for your needs.
All of them are called ``Linux+foobar-OS'', for
some foobar-OS, they deal with coexistence of
Linux and other operating system(s). For example,
"NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO" by Bernd Reichert,
describes how to add an entry for Linux under existing
Windows NT Loader's menu. Next, you have
Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO written by myself,
covering how to add an entry for NT
under existing Linux Lilo menu (more detailed than here).
Also, "Multiboot-with-LILO" describes how the various
Windows flavors can be made to coexist with Linux.
This mini-HOWTO would be improved from time
to time. If you think that the HOWTO on your
Linux installation CD is some out-of-date, you
may check for newest release on the Internet. It
could be found within the main
Linux Documentation Project
homepage or this one:
Linux Documentation Project.
This version of mini-HOWTO can thanks to:
Cameron Spitzer (cls@truffula.sj.ca.us)
Alessandro Rubini (rubini@linux.it)
Tony Harris (tony@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu)
Marc Tanguy (mtanguy@ens.uvsq.fr)
Dragomir Kalaba, a local Linux 'guru'
Any comments or suggestions can be mailed to my
email address:
skoric at eunet dot yu
These are intended as the primary starting points to
get the background information as well as show you how to solve
a specific problem.
Some relevant HOWTOs are Bootdisk, Installation, SCSI and UMSDOS.
The main site for these is the
LDP archive
at Metalab (formerly known as Sunsite).
These are the smaller free text relatives to the HOWTOs.
Some relevant mini-HOWTOs are
Backup-With-MSDOS, Diskless, LILO, Large Disk,
Linux+DOS+Win95+OS2, Linux+OS2+DOS, Linux+Win95,
Linux+WindowsNT, Linux+NT-Loader, NFS-Root,
Win95+Win+Linux, ZIP Drive, FBB packet-radio BBS.
You can find these at the same place as the HOWTOs, usually in a sub directory
called mini. Note that these are scheduled to be converted into SGML and
become proper HOWTOs in the near future.
In most distributions of Linux there is a document directory installed,
have a look in the
/usr/doc directory.
where most packages store their main documentation and README files etc.
Also you will here find the HOWTO archive (
/usr/doc/HOWTO)
of ready formatted HOWTOs
and also the mini-HOWTO archive (
/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini)
of plain text documents.
Many of the configuration files mentioned earlier can be found in the
/etc
directory. In particular you will want to work with the
/etc/fstab
file that sets up the mounting of partitions
and possibly also
/etc/mdtab
file that is used for the md system to set up RAID.
The kernel source in
/usr/src/linux
is, of course, the ultimate documentation. In other
words, use the source, Luke.
It should also be pointed out that the kernel comes not only with
source code which is even commented (well, partially at least)
but also an informative
documentation directory.
If you are about to ask any questions about the kernel you should
read this first, it will save you and many others a lot of time
and possibly embarrassment.
Also have a look in your system log file (
/var/log/messages)
to see what is going on and in particular how the booting went if
too much scrolled off your screen. Using tail -f /var/log/messages
in a separate window or screen will give you a continuous update of what is
going on in your system.
You can also take advantage of the
/proc
file system that is a window into the inner workings of your system.
Use cat rather than more to view the files as they are
reported as being zero length. Reports are that less works well here.
There is a huge number of informative web pages out there and by their very
nature they change quickly so don't be too surprised if these links become
quickly outdated.
A good starting point is of course the
Linux Documentation Project
home page, or this one:
Linux Documentation Project, an information central for documentation, project
pages and much, much more.
Please let me know if you have any other leads that can be of interest.
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