Appendix D. Administrivia
This manual was created for Sarge's debian-installer, based on the Woody installation manual for boot-floppies, which was based on earlier Debian installation manuals, and on the Progeny distribution manual which was released under GPL in 2003. It was subsequently modified for use in atomeOS.
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- 1.1. What is atomeOS?
- 1.2. What is Debian?
- 1.3. What is GNU/Linux?
- 1.4. Getting atomeOS
- 1.5. Getting the Newest Version of This Document
- 1.6. Organization of This Document
- 1.7. Your Documentation Help is Welcome
- 1.8. About Copyrights and Software Licenses
- 2.1. Supported Hardware
- 2.2. Devices Requiring Firmware
- 2.3. Purchasing Hardware Specifically for GNU/Linux
- 2.4. Installation Media
- 2.5. Memory and Disk Space Requirements
- 4.1. Shutting down the system
- 4.2. If You Are New to Unix
- 4.3. Orienting Yourself to atomeOS
- 4.4. Further Reading and Information
- 4.5. Setting Up Your System To Use E-Mail
- 4.6. Compiling a New Kernel
- 4.7. Recovering a Broken System
- B.1. Deciding on atomeOS Partitions and Sizes
- B.2. The Directory Tree
- B.3. Recommended Partitioning Scheme
- B.4. Device Names in Linux
- B.5. atomeOS Partitioning Programs