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<H2><A NAME="s11">11.</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc11">Further Information</A></H2>
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<H2><A NAME="ss11.1">11.1</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc11.1">Copyright</A>
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<P>Copyright (c) 2000-2010 by Miroslav "Misko" Skoric, YT7MPB.</P>
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<P>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
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under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
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any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
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Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
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Texts. A copy of the license is available from
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http://www.fsf.org/licenses/fdl.html. </P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss11.2">11.2</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc11.2">Disclaimer</A>
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<P>Use the information in this document at your own
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risk. I disavow any potential liability of this
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document. Use of the concepts, examples, and/or
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other content of this document is entirely at
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your own risk.</P>
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<P>All copyrights are owned by their owners, unless
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specifically noted otherwise. Use of a term in
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this document should not be regarded as
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affecting the validity of any trademark or service
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mark.</P>
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<P>Naming of particular products or brands should not
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be seen as endorsements.</P>
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<P>You are strongly recommended to take a backup of
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your system before major installation and backups
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at regular intervals.</P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss11.3">11.3</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc11.3">News</A>
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</H2>
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<P>In addition to the Lilo docs, there are a number
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of mini-howto's that can be useful for your needs.
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All of them are called ``Linux+<EM>foobar-OS</EM>'', for
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some <EM>foobar-OS</EM>, they deal with coexistence of
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Linux and other operating system(s). For example,
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"NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO" by Bernd Reichert,
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describes how to add an entry for Linux under existing
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Windows NT Loader's menu. Next, you have
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<A HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html">Linux+WindowsNT</A> mini-HOWTO written by myself,
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covering how to add an entry for NT
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under existing Linux Lilo menu (more detailed than here).
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Also, "Multiboot-with-LILO" describes how the various
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Windows flavors can be made to coexist with Linux. </P>
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<P><EM>This mini-HOWTO would be improved from time
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to time. If you think that the HOWTO on your
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Linux installation CD is some out-of-date, you
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may check for newest release on the Internet. It
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could be found within the main
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<A HREF="http://www.tldp.org/">Linux Documentation Project</A> or some of its
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mirrors.</EM></P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss11.4">11.4</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc11.4">Credits</A>
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</H2>
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<P><EM>This version of mini-HOWTO can thanks to:</EM></P>
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<P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
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<PRE>
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Cameron Spitzer (cls@truffula.sj.ca.us)
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Alessandro Rubini (rubini@linux.it)
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Tony Harris (tony@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu)
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Marc Tanguy (mtanguy@ens.uvsq.fr)
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Dragomir Kalaba, a local Linux 'guru'
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</PRE>
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</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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</P>
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<P>Any comments or suggestions can be mailed to my
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email address:
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skoric at eunet dot rs</P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss11.5">11.5</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc11.5">HOWTO</A>
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</H2>
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<P>
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disk!information resources!HOWTOs
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These are intended as the primary starting points to
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get the background information as well as show you how to solve
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a specific problem.
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Some relevant HOWTOs are <CODE>Bootdisk</CODE>, <CODE>Installation</CODE>, <CODE>SCSI</CODE> and <CODE>UMSDOS</CODE>.
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The main site for these is the
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<A HREF="http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/">LDP archive</A>
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at Metalab (formerly known as Sunsite).</P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss11.6">11.6</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc11.6">Mini-HOWTO</A>
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</H2>
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disk!information resources!mini-HOWTOs
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These are the smaller free text relatives to the HOWTOs.
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Some relevant mini-HOWTOs are
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<CODE>Backup-With-MSDOS</CODE>, <CODE>Diskless</CODE>, <CODE>LILO</CODE>, <CODE>Large Disk</CODE>,
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<CODE>Linux+DOS+Win95+OS2</CODE>, <CODE>Linux+OS2+DOS</CODE>, <CODE>Linux+Win95</CODE>,
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<CODE>Linux+WindowsNT</CODE>, <CODE>Linux+NT-Loader</CODE>, <CODE>NFS-Root</CODE>,
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<CODE>Win95+Win+Linux</CODE>, <CODE>ZIP Drive</CODE>, <CODE>FBB packet-radio BBS</CODE>.
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You can find these at the same place as the HOWTOs, usually in a sub directory
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called <CODE>mini</CODE>. Note that these are scheduled to be converted into SGML and
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become proper HOWTOs in the near future.</P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss11.7">11.7</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc11.7">Local Resources</A>
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</H2>
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<P>
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disk!information resources!local
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In most distributions of Linux there is a document directory installed,
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have a look in the
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<A HREF="file:///usr/doc">/usr/doc</A> directory.
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where most packages store their main documentation and README files etc.
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Also you will here find the HOWTO archive (
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<A HREF="file:///usr/doc/HOWTO">/usr/doc/HOWTO</A>)
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of ready formatted HOWTOs
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and also the mini-HOWTO archive (
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<A HREF="file:///usr/doc/HOWTO/mini">/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini</A>)
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of plain text documents.</P>
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<P>Many of the configuration files mentioned earlier can be found in the
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<A HREF="file:///etc">/etc</A>
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directory. In particular you will want to work with the
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<A HREF="file:///etc/fstab">/etc/fstab</A>
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file that sets up the mounting of partitions
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and possibly also
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<A HREF="file:///etc/mdtab">/etc/mdtab</A>
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file that is used for the <CODE>md</CODE> system to set up RAID.</P>
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<P>The kernel source in
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<A HREF="file:///usr/src/linux">/usr/src/linux</A>
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is, of course, the ultimate documentation. In other
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words, <EM>use the source, Luke</EM>.
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It should also be pointed out that the kernel comes not only with
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source code which is even commented (well, partially at least)
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but also an informative
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<A HREF="file:///usr/src/linux/Documentation">documentation directory</A>.
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If you are about to ask any questions about the kernel you should
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read this first, it will save you and many others a lot of time
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and possibly embarrassment.</P>
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<P>Also have a look in your system log file (
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<A HREF="file:///var/log/messages">/var/log/messages</A>)
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to see what is going on and in particular how the booting went if
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too much scrolled off your screen. Using <CODE>tail -f /var/log/messages</CODE>
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in a separate window or screen will give you a continuous update of what is
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going on in your system.</P>
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<P>You can also take advantage of the
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<A HREF="file:///proc">/proc</A>
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file system that is a window into the inner workings of your system.
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Use <CODE>cat</CODE> rather than <CODE>more</CODE> to view the files as they are
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reported as being zero length. Reports are that <CODE>less</CODE> works well here.</P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss11.8">11.8</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc11.8">Web Pages</A>
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</H2>
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disk!information resources!WWW
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There is a huge number of informative web pages out there and by their very
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nature they change quickly so don't be too surprised if these links become
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quickly outdated.</P>
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<P>A good starting point is of course the
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<A HREF="http://www.linuxdoc.org/">Linux Documentation Project</A>
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home page, or this one:
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<A HREF="http://www.tldp.org/">Linux Documentation Project</A>, an information central for documentation, project
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pages and much, much more.</P>
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<P>Please let me know if you have any other leads that can be of interest.</P>
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