Contents

• • CREDITS
  • Typography
    • Bold
    • Italic
    • The note Style
    • The screen Style
  
  
• Introduction
  • About the Author
  • A Short History of Debian
  • The Debian Development Team
  • What Makes Debian Different?
  • What is in this book?
  
  
• Package Management Tools
  • Introduction
  • dpkg
    • Introduction
    • Running dpkg
    • Options Recognized by dpkg
  • dselect
    • Introduction
    • Using dselect
    • Upgrading with dselect
  • apt-get
    • Introduction
    • Selecting Archives
    • Updating Packages Files
    • Installing Packages
    • Upgrading Packages
    • Removing packages
  
  
• Installation
  • Introduction
  • Quick Start
  • Before You Begin
    • Boot Media
    • Partitioning the Hard Drive
    • The Swap Partition
    • The root partitions
    • Networking Information Sources
    • Preliminary Networking Information
    • PPP Configuration Information
  • Stage One: The Base Installation
    • Task 1: Configure the Keyboard
    • Task 2: Partition the Hard Disk
    • Task 3: Swap Partition
    • Task 4: Initializing Linux Partitions
    • Task 5: Install Kernel and Modules
    • Task 6: Configuring Driver Modules
    • Task 7: Configure the Network
    • Task 8: Installing the Base System
    • Task 9: Configuring the Base System
    • Task 10: Creating a Bootable System
    • Task 11: Finish Stage One
  • Stage Two: Package Installation
    • General Configuration
    • PPP Configuration
    • Configuring Apt
    • System Configuration
    • The Debian Task Installer
    • X Configuration using anXious
    • Apt Package Installation
  
  
• Basic System Administration
  • Introduction
  • Managing many accounts
    • Adding a user
    • Removing a user
    • Managing passwords
  • Managing Root Access
    • su
    • sudo
  • File Protection by Owner
  • File Protection by Group
  • Mounting and Unmounting File Systems
  • Monitoring System Activity
    • Process Status
    • top CPU Processes
    • fuser: Who has it?
    • Who is logged on?
    • Where is the printer?
  • Finding knowledge
    • Additional info
  • Finding packages
    • Searching the file system
  • Building a Custom Kernel
    • Hardware
    • Building the Kernel
    • Non-Debian Kernel Construction
  • Debian Kernel Construction
  • Modules
    • Advantages
    • Disadvantage
  
  
• Appendix
  • Appendix 1: Common UNIX Commands
    • Introduction
    • chgrp
    • chmod
    • chown
    • cp
    • df
    • du
    • ls
    • mkdir
    • mv
    • rm
    • rmdir
  • Appendix 2: Text Editors
    • Introduction
    • ae
    • joe
    • vi
    • emacs
  • Appendix 3: The Loop Device
  • Appendix 4: Multiple OS Installation
  • Appendix 5: Building Packages Files
  • Appendix 6: Linux as a Server
  • Appendix 7: Arguments
    • SCSI device arguments
    • SCSI argument list
    • Hard Disk Arguments
    • Other CD-ROMS
    • Floppy Drive Arguments
    • Other Device Drivers
  • Appendix 8: What is Free Software
  • Appendix 9: GNU Free Documentation License
    • GNU Free Documentation License
  
  
• Index
• About this document ...