Return-Path: owner-linux-activists@joker.cs.hut.fi Received: from joker.cs.hut.fi (root@joker.cs.hut.fi [130.233.40.32]) by keos.Helsinki.FI (8.6.4/H45) with SMTP id MAA08084 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 1994 12:36:02 +0200 Received: from joker.cs.hut.fi by niksula.hut.fi id <64082-1>; Sat, 15 Jan 1994 12:29:49 +0200 From: "Linux Activists" To: "Linux-Activists" Reply-To: "Linux-Activists" X-Note1: Remember to put 'X-Mn-Key: DOC' to your mail body or header Subject: Linux-Activists - DOC Channel digest. 94-0-15-10:26 X-Mn-Key: DOC Sender: owner-linux-activists@joker.cs.hut.fi Message-Id: <94Jan15.122949eet.64082-1@niksula.hut.fi> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 12:29:18 +0200 Status: RO X-Status: Topics: Linux Installation and Getting Started v2.0 now available ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mdw@SunSite.unc.edu (Matt Welsh) Subject: Linux Installation and Getting Started v2.0 now available Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 05:16:22 +0200 The Linux Documentation Project proudly presents... Linux Installation and Getting Started by Matt Welsh v2.0, 14 January 1993 Linux Installation and Getting Started is a book for anyone wishing to dive into the Linux world. It covers what Linux is, how to get it, and how to install it on your machine. Also included is an introductory tutorial to using Linux for UNIX novices, and chapters on Linux system administration and advanced features of Linux, such as the X Window System, TCP/IP networking, and more. This is the second edition of this book. It has been greatly expanded. I have completely rewritten the first three chapters and updated the rest of the book to be up-to-date with recent changes in the system. The most important change is that the book is now a GENERAL guide for (theoretically) any distribution of Linux. It is no longer specific to SLS. Of course, the tradeoff for generality is that the installation instructions are not specific for any particular distribution. However, most (if not all) distributions currently have their own README's and installation instructions. Coupled with these distribution-specific instructions, ``Linux Installation and Getting Started'' makes a great installation and new-user guide for any release. This book is freely distributable under certain conditions (see below). This license allows anyone to print and distribute verbatim copies of the book. I encourage publishing companies and printing houses to do so. In particular, I encourage distributors of Linux software to use this book as an installation guide. (After all, that's why I wrote it!) If you don't find the instructions contained therein specific enough, you can provide your own short "installation supplement" to go along with the book. The book has been uploaded to sunsite.unc.edu in the directory /pub/Linux/docs/LDP/install-guide. Other sites, such as tsx-11, should mirror this soon. The files below ending in the .gz extension have been compressed with gzip. Gzip is available from many FTP sites, including prep.ai.mit.edu in /pub/gnu. The files without the .gz extension are plain, uncompressed files. Many readers were having trouble getting Gzip for MS-DOS and other platforms, so I am providing both gzipped and ungzipped versions of the files on the FTP sites. The gzipped files are identical to their non-gzipped counterparts. You only need to get one or the other, not both. The files are: install-guide-2.0.ps install-guide-2.0.ps.gz PostScript output, ready to print, 188 pages. Should print fine on US letter or A4 paper. You can also view this with Ghostview, although some readers have reported that Ghostview chokes on large documents generated by dvips. I haven't been able to test this. install-guide-2.0.dvi install-guide-2.0.dvi.gz .dvi (device independent) TeX output. 188 pages. You can view this with xdvi or convert to another with the various DVI tools if you wish. (For example, dvips will generate PostScript from this file, dvilj2p will produce HP LaserJet IIP output, etc. See the comp.text.tex FAQ for details.) install-guide-1.0.txt install-guide-1.0.txt.gz Plain ASCII output. This is made available mostly for previewing purposes---it is rather ugly. This is ASCII for the FIRST EDITION of the book (version 1.0), which is quite outdated. I DO NOT recommend reasing the plain ASCII if you can help it---the PostScript and .dvi versions look very nice in comparison. I haven't had time to generate ASCII for v2.0 yet---even with existing tools this is a very clumsy task. About 180 pages (66 lines per page). install-guide-2.0.tar.gz Complete LaTeX source, including formatting macros and style file. You only need this if you want to format the book from scratch. Otherwise you only need one of the above files. This is a gzipped UNIX tar file. I hope that this book helps people start using Linux. It is freely distributable by the terms listed below: Linux Installation and Getting Started may be reproduced and distributed in whole or in part, subject to the following conditions: Linux Installation and Getting Started is Copyright (c)1992-1994 by Matt Welsh, mdw@sunsite.unc.edu. 205 Gray St NE, Wilson, NC, 27893 USA. * The copyright notice above and this permission notice must be preserved complete on all complete or partial copies. * Any translation or derivative work of Linux Installation and Getting Started must be approved by the author in writing before distribution. * If you distribute Linux Installation and Getting Started in part, instructions for obtaining the complete version of this manual must be included, and a means for obtaining a complete version provided. * Small portions may be reproduced as illustrations for reviews or quotes in other works without this permission notice if proper citation is given. * The GNU General Public License referenced below may be reproduced under the conditions given within it. Exceptions to these rules may be granted for academic purposes: Write to Matt Welsh, at the above address, or email mdw@sunsite.unc.edu, and ask. These restrictions are here to protect us as authors, not to restrict you as educators and learners. In short, you don't need my permission to copy, print, or distribute the complete book, verbatim, but you do need my permission to translate the book or to produce a derivative work from it. Just get in touch with me if you have questions. All source code in Linux Installation and Getting Started is placed under the GNU General Public License, available via anonymous FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/COPYING. Please send me any comments or suggestions. I usually appreciate general comments, instead of cdiffs, because they allow me to rewrite the sections myself. Besides, if thirty people send me cdiffs on the same section, I can't use them all. :) Enjoy! mdw -- Matt Welsh, mdw@sunsite.unc.edu ------------------------------ End of DOC Digest ***************** ------- .