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Working Centre Linux Project: Administrator's Guide
Paul "Failure" Nijjar
RCS Version
Contents
Introduction
How to read this manual
This documentation is broken!
Conventions and Terminology
Terminology
Conventions
Background Information
What is an operating system?
Is this software legal?
What is free software? What is open-source software?
What is Linux? What is GNU/Linux?
What is Debian?
What is the Working Centre Linux Project?
What is the design philosophy of the project?
Pre-installation tasks
Does the user really want Linux?
Get user configuration decisions
Get hardware information
Install a network card
Using the Installer
Booting with a floppy
Startup
Customization
Additional classes
X-server selections
Hostname
Automated install
Checking the installation process
Restoring a blank screen
Using the second virtual terminal
Reboot the system
Post-installation tasks
Log in
Configure X-Windows
Information you want
dpkg-reconfigure
Testing the configuration
Enable and configure GDM
Re-enable GDM
The AUTOLOGIN class
Configure GDM to log in an account automatically
Create user accounts
Reboot and test
Change the root password
Sensible passwords and security
Automatic password generation
Set up printers
Set up a sound card
Getting a working sound card
Setting up resources using isapnptools
Low level drivers: ALSA vs. OSS/Lite
Configuring ALSA drivers
Configuring OSS/Lite drivers
Installing sound programs
Set up a modem
Information you need
Fiddling with PnP BIOS settings
Setting modem jumpers
Using setserial
Using
isapnptools
(revisited)
Using
wvdialconf
to test modem detection
Setting up a dialer
Deal with the network card and configuration
Finishing up
The Installation Backend: FAI
FAI overview
FAI resources
FAI tips
FAI logfiles
Startup
BIOS and the boot loader
LILO
rcS_fai
Installation
FAI classes
Partitioning Hard Drives
Base package installation
Package installation
Configuration
Finishing up
The local Debian mirror
Maintaining the mirror
Using the mirror
APT and the mirror
fai.conf
base_woody.tgz
Other tasks
Local Package Customizations
Abiword
Gaim
Gnumeric
Opera
IceWM
GMC
Symbolic links
Local menu entries
adduser
configuration
WCLP In-house additions
Our feedback form
Offline help
NFS Configuration
Creating the UNIXLIKE package configuration file
Compiling the kernel
Package Management
apt-get
aptitude
synaptic
packages.debian.org
Installing the project from scratch
Hardware you need
Install the configuration files
Set up NFS
Set up a mirror
Set up FAI
fai.conf
make-fai-nfsroot
Finish up
Making FAI boot floppies
Our Project's SourceForge Account
URLs
Creating your user account
Using CVS
Our CVS layout
CVS Tips and Quirks
Bug Tracking
Releasing our software
Software notes
Additional software to try
Wishlist and Future Work
Support Improvements
Technical Wishlist
Common hardware configurations
Systems
AST Bravo LC 5100
Award BIOS 4.50G
Monitors
Network Cards
Finding network card information
Linksys LNE 100TX
NE 2000
Internet Service Providers
Gateway
Sympatico dialup
Resource usage tables
Serial ports
Typical IRQ allocations
Troubleshooting
Problems when starting the install
Neighbor table overflow
Kernel panic: could not mount root fs
Problems during configuration
None of the software on the system is right!
Sorry, the following packages failed to install:
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2004-04-13
