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>Introduction</H1
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>You just received this PA-RISC box you bought online, or maybe you
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got it from your company scrapyard. Anyway, here comes the question of the
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operating system you are going to use. The PA/Linux project consists in porting
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Linux to the PA-RISC architecture, and we hope that if you decide to use it on
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your box, this HOWTO will help you in the process of setting it up.</P
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>In addition to porting the Linux kernel, the development team is working
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on porting the Debian project to PA-RISC. In fact, by the time we wrote this
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document, over 97% of the package pool is available for the stable
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Debian release (3.1, aka <EM
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>Sarge</EM
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>) on hppa (see
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>the buildd stats</A
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for detailed data). Some Debian developers and users reported that the
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port was one of the easiest to install, as it feels like installing an
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i386 system.</P
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>For more information about the PA-RISC/Linux porting project,
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please see <A
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HREF="http://www.parisc-linux.org/"
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>http://www.parisc-linux.org/</A
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>, or a mirror site like
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>http://www.fr.parisc-linux.org/</A
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>.
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This site deals with kernel development and improvement. For user-space
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troubles, please refer to
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>Debian hppa port pages</A
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>.</P
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>In a few words, this HOWTO is aimed at anyone looking for some
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help and information about using Linux on a PA-RISC system. No particular prior
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knowledge is necessary but bases about how Debian packages work, and general
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background about Linux can be helpful.</P
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>It is also worth mentioning that some sections of the present document
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aren't Linux-centric, and may be of use to people dealing with other OSes,
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such as BSDs or even HP-UX.</P
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>After listing supported hardware, this HOWTO explains some commands
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of the Boot Console Handler (<SPAN
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>BCH</SPAN
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>) available at boot time. Then, the
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features of the PA/Linux kernel loader are introduced in another chapter,
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and finally many ways to get your system up and running are detailed.
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At the end, the text goes deep in the kernel compilation and configuration,
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as well as a few appendices giving some extra hints.</P
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