<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="LinuxDoc-Tools 0.9.21"> <TITLE>LILO mini-HOWTO: Further Information</TITLE> <LINK HREF="LILO-12.html" REL=next> <LINK HREF="LILO-10.html" REL=previous> <LINK HREF="LILO.html#toc11" REL=contents> </HEAD> <BODY> <A HREF="LILO-12.html">Next</A> <A HREF="LILO-10.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc11">Contents</A> <HR> <H2><A NAME="s11">11.</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc11">Further Information</A></H2> <H2><A NAME="ss11.1">11.1</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc11.1">Copyright</A> </H2> <P>Copyright (c) 2008 by Miroslav "Misko" Skoric, YT7MPB.</P> <P>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is available from http://www.fsf.org/licenses/fdl.html. </P> <H2><A NAME="ss11.2">11.2</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc11.2">Disclaimer</A> </H2> <P>Use the information in this document at your own risk. I disavow any potential liability of this document. Use of the concepts, examples, and/or other content of this document is entirely at your own risk.</P> <P>All copyrights are owned by their owners, unless specifically noted otherwise. Use of a term in this document should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark or service mark.</P> <P>Naming of particular products or brands should not be seen as endorsements.</P> <P>You are strongly recommended to take a backup of your system before major installation and backups at regular intervals.</P> <H2><A NAME="ss11.3">11.3</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc11.3">News</A> </H2> <P>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+<EM>foobar-OS</EM>'', for some <EM>foobar-OS</EM>, 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 <A HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html">Linux+WindowsNT</A> 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. </P> <P><EM>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 <A HREF="http://www.linuxdoc.org/">Linux Documentation Project</A> homepage or this one: <A HREF="http://www.tldp.org/">Linux Documentation Project</A>.</EM></P> <H2><A NAME="ss11.4">11.4</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc11.4">Credits</A> </H2> <P><EM>This version of mini-HOWTO can thanks to:</EM></P> <P> <BLOCKQUOTE><CODE> <PRE> 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' </PRE> </CODE></BLOCKQUOTE> </P> <P>Any comments or suggestions can be mailed to my email address: skoric at eunet dot yu</P> <H2><A NAME="ss11.5">11.5</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc11.5">HOWTO</A> </H2> <P> <!-- disk!information resources!HOWTOs --> 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 <CODE>Bootdisk</CODE>, <CODE>Installation</CODE>, <CODE>SCSI</CODE> and <CODE>UMSDOS</CODE>. The main site for these is the <A HREF="http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/">LDP archive</A> at Metalab (formerly known as Sunsite).</P> <H2><A NAME="ss11.6">11.6</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc11.6">Mini-HOWTO</A> </H2> <P> <!-- disk!information resources!mini-HOWTOs --> These are the smaller free text relatives to the HOWTOs. Some relevant mini-HOWTOs are <CODE>Backup-With-MSDOS</CODE>, <CODE>Diskless</CODE>, <CODE>LILO</CODE>, <CODE>Large Disk</CODE>, <CODE>Linux+DOS+Win95+OS2</CODE>, <CODE>Linux+OS2+DOS</CODE>, <CODE>Linux+Win95</CODE>, <CODE>Linux+WindowsNT</CODE>, <CODE>Linux+NT-Loader</CODE>, <CODE>NFS-Root</CODE>, <CODE>Win95+Win+Linux</CODE>, <CODE>ZIP Drive</CODE>, <CODE>FBB packet-radio BBS</CODE>. You can find these at the same place as the HOWTOs, usually in a sub directory called <CODE>mini</CODE>. Note that these are scheduled to be converted into SGML and become proper HOWTOs in the near future.</P> <H2><A NAME="ss11.7">11.7</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc11.7">Local Resources</A> </H2> <P> <!-- disk!information resources!local --> In most distributions of Linux there is a document directory installed, have a look in the <A HREF="file:///usr/doc">/usr/doc</A> directory. where most packages store their main documentation and README files etc. Also you will here find the HOWTO archive ( <A HREF="file:///usr/doc/HOWTO">/usr/doc/HOWTO</A>) of ready formatted HOWTOs and also the mini-HOWTO archive ( <A HREF="file:///usr/doc/HOWTO/mini">/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini</A>) of plain text documents.</P> <P>Many of the configuration files mentioned earlier can be found in the <A HREF="file:///etc">/etc</A> directory. In particular you will want to work with the <A HREF="file:///etc/fstab">/etc/fstab</A> file that sets up the mounting of partitions and possibly also <A HREF="file:///etc/mdtab">/etc/mdtab</A> file that is used for the <CODE>md</CODE> system to set up RAID.</P> <P>The kernel source in <A HREF="file:///usr/src/linux">/usr/src/linux</A> is, of course, the ultimate documentation. In other words, <EM>use the source, Luke</EM>. 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 <A HREF="file:///usr/src/linux/Documentation">documentation directory</A>. 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.</P> <P>Also have a look in your system log file ( <A HREF="file:///var/log/messages">/var/log/messages</A>) to see what is going on and in particular how the booting went if too much scrolled off your screen. Using <CODE>tail -f /var/log/messages</CODE> in a separate window or screen will give you a continuous update of what is going on in your system.</P> <P>You can also take advantage of the <A HREF="file:///proc">/proc</A> file system that is a window into the inner workings of your system. Use <CODE>cat</CODE> rather than <CODE>more</CODE> to view the files as they are reported as being zero length. Reports are that <CODE>less</CODE> works well here.</P> <H2><A NAME="ss11.8">11.8</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc11.8">Web Pages</A> </H2> <P> <!-- disk!information resources!WWW --> <!-- disk!information resources!web pages --> 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.</P> <P>A good starting point is of course the <A HREF="http://www.linuxdoc.org/">Linux Documentation Project</A> home page, or this one: <A HREF="http://www.tldp.org/">Linux Documentation Project</A>, an information central for documentation, project pages and much, much more.</P> <P>Please let me know if you have any other leads that can be of interest.</P> <HR> <A HREF="LILO-12.html">Next</A> <A HREF="LILO-10.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc11">Contents</A> </BODY> </HTML>