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Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Copyright 1
About the author 1
Aknowledgements 1
Audience 1
Organization 2
Web resources 2
Installation 4
What this chapter covers 4
Which distribution is good for you 5
How to find a Linux CD-ROM at low cost 6
Multiple operating systems 7
Installing with no CD-ROM drive or modem 8
Swap and memory 9
More swap with a swap file 10
Kernel size and modules 11
The boot prompt 12
Wrong memory size found 13
Master boot record and LILO 14
LILO can't find a kernel on a big drive 15
X Window configuration options 16
Allowing users to mount drives 17
Allowing users to run root programs 18
Linux and NT booting 19
Annoying boot messages 20
Programs on CD-ROM 21
International console 22
Multiple kernels choices 23
Default file permissions 24
Default boot mode 25
More information from usenet 26
Bytes per inodes 27
LILO and boot problems 28
Making CD-ROM images 29
FTP access restrictions 30
Hardware 32
What this chapter covers 32
Detecting 2 ethernet cards 33
Everything on sound cards 34
Non-PostScript printers 35
Use Windows special keys in Linux 36
Added processors 37
Detecting an ISA device 38
Find hardware information 39
Blinking leds on the keyboard 40
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Reading a foreign file system 41
Can't mount root fs 42
Linux on a 286? 43
Linux without a hard drive 44
Shutdown and power off 45
LPD started but no device found 46
Read files from FAT32 drives 47
TV on Linux 48
Device drivers 49
Mouse problems 50
International keyboards 51
Software 53
What this chapter covers 53
Background image in X Window 54
Customize Netscape Communicator 55
POP3 in Pine 56
Multiple accounts in Pine 57
Running Java programs 58
Virtual hosts in Apache 59
Libc versus Glibc 60
Aliases with Qmail 61
Samba with Microsoft Windows 62
KDE drag and drop icons 63
Find files 64
asm or linux include files not found 65
ICQ on Linux 66
Reading foreign documents 67
Scanning with Linux 68
Real audio and video 69
Emulation 70
Shared library not found 71
Hard to erase files 72
Files permissions 73
Changing file permissions 74
An international background 75
Powerful file transfer system 76
Editing in text editors 77
Documentation and manual 78
Networking 80
What this chapter covers 80
Easy PPP dialup 81
Internet for your LAN 82
Domains to search in 83
Display IP rather than hostname 84
Is my modem a winmodem? 85
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Sharing files from a Windows system 86
Sorry but this host is not in my list 87
Access to various networks 88
Accessing remote file systems 89
Secure Web server 90
Secure alternative to telnet 91
Speed problems on a PPP connection 92
Names and name servers 93
Who owns this port 94
Network printers 95
Development 97
What this chapter covers 97
Graphical messages to the world 98
Code reuse 99
Makefile don't equal C 100
Parsing the command line in BASH 101
Don't grep grep 102
Move a text into upper case letters 103
Using PASCAL on Linux 104
Segmentation fault 105
Who is online? 106
Graphical toolkits 107
IDE and visual interfaces 108
Free software and copyleft 109
Talking to the terminal 110
Internet technologies 111
Library types 112