Re: Install doc ready for testing ;-)
This looks great, igor! :)
Here's a patch for lots of spell checks and 'linux' -> 'Linux',
'debian' -> 'Debian' fixes.
--- install.html.old Sun Apr 19 13:03:40 1998
+++ install.html Sun Apr 19 13:15:54 1998
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
because Debian is based on <I>free software</I>. </P>
<P>Free software doesn't mean that it doesn't have a copyright, and it
-doesn't mean that the CD you buy containing this software is distributed
+doesn't mean that the CD you buy containing this software is distributed
at no charge, it simply means that the licenses of individual programs
do not require you to pay for the privilege of copying the programs. There
are other sorts of restrictions on how you copy the software, which you
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@
<P>Your motherboard probably provides <I>shadow RAM</I>. You may see settings
for "Video BIOS Shadow", "C800-CBFF Shadow", etc. <B>Disable</B>
-all shadow RAM. Shadow RAM is used to accellerate access to the ROMs on
+all shadow RAM. Shadow RAM is used to accelerate access to the ROMs on
your motherboard and on some of the controller cards. Linux avoids using
these ROMs once it has booted because it provides its own faster 32-bit
software in place of the 16-bit programs in the ROMs. Disabling the shadow
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
control of the turbo switch (or software control of CPU speed), do so and
lock the system in high-speed mode. We have one report that on a particular
system, while Linux is
-auto-probing (looking for hardware devices) it can accidentaly touch the
+auto-probing (looking for hardware devices) it can accidentally touch the
software control for the turbo switch.
<h3>Over-Clocking your CPU</h3>
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@
bad RAM (or other hardware problems that change data unpredictably)
because it builds huge data structures that it traverses repeatedly.
An error in these data structures will cause it to execute an illegal
-instruction or access a non-existant address. The symptom of this will be
+instruction or access a non-existent address. The symptom of this will be
gcc dying from an unexpected signal.
<p>
The very best motherboards support parity RAM and will actually tell you if
@@ -307,13 +307,13 @@
<P>A disturbing trend is the proliferation of <I>Windows</I> modems and
printers. In some cases these are specially designed to be operated by
the Microsoft Windows operating system and bear the legend <i>WinModem</i>
-or <I>Made expecially
+or <I>Made especially
for Windows-based computers</I>. This is generally done by removing the
embedded processors of the hardware and shifting the work they do over
to a Windows driver that is run by your computer's main CPU. This strategy
makes the hardware less expensive, but the savings are often <I>not</I>
passed on to the user and this hardware may even be more expensive than
-equivalent devices that retain their embedded intellegence.</P>
+equivalent devices that retain their embedded intelligence.</P>
<P>You should avoid Windows-specific hardware for two reasons. The first
is that the manufacturers do not generally make the resources available
@@ -356,16 +356,16 @@
<H2>Methods for Installing Debian</H2>
<P>
-You can install debian from the followin mediums: floppies, hard disk, or a
+You can install Debian from the following mediums: floppies, hard disk, or a
CD. You can also mix those 3 methods for different parts of installation as
will be discussed below.
<P>
-The installaion disks are divided into 3 parts. The rescue disk, the
-driver disk, and the base system. You will be prompted for each one of
+The installation disks are divided into 3 parts: the Rescue Disk, the
+Driver Disk, and the Base system. You will be prompted for each one of
them separately. Therefore, you can place each one of them on a different
medium if you wish. Below you will find a description of the most common
-methods of installing debian. Keep in mind that if need be, you can
+methods of installing Debian. Keep in mind that if need be, you can
always put every distinct part of bootdisks on a separate medium.
Note that the base system is available in 2 forms: floppy disk images for
direct writing to a floppy, and in a tar archive for other forms of
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@
<P>
Below is an annotated list of files you will find in disks-i386 directory.
-You do not need to downoad them all, but only those you will need for your
+You do not need to download them all, but only those you will need for your
particular form of installation. See below for detailed installation
instructions. All disk images are available in a form suitable for using
in a 1.44MB and older 1.2MB floppy drives separately. The images for
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@
<DT> resc1440.bin, resc1200.bin: the rescue disk image
-<DD> This is the rescue disk image. It is used for inital setup, and also
+<DD> This is the rescue disk image. It is used for initial setup, and also
in emergencies when you system doesn't boot for some reason in the future.
Therefore it is recommended you write the disk image to the floppy even if
you are not using floppies for installation.
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@
the base system.
<DD> These files contain the base system which will be installed on your
-linux partition during the installation process. This is the bare minimum
+Linux partition during the installation process. This is the bare minimum
necessary for you to be able to install the rest of the packages. The
base2_0.tgz file is for installation from non-floppy media.
@@ -436,19 +436,19 @@
should not copy images to the floppy, but instead use this utility to
rawrite them.
-<DT> loadlin.exe : linux boot loader for DOS.
+<DT> loadlin.exe : Linux boot loader for DOS.
<DD> You will need this boot loader if you are installing from a DOS partition
or from a CD.
-<DT> install.bat : DOS batch file for starting debian installation from
+<DT> install.bat : DOS batch file for starting Debian installation from
DOS.
<DD> This batch file is used in installations from hard disk or CD.
<DT> linux : the kernel image
-<DD> This is the linux kernel image to be used for hard disk and CD
+<DD> This is the Linux kernel image to be used for hard disk and CD
installations.
<DT> X11_release_note.txt : notes for X users who have a non-US keyboard.
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@
<OL>
-<LI> Get the following files from your nearest debian ftp mirror and put them
+<LI> Get the following files from your nearest Debian ftp mirror and put them
into a directory on your DOS partition: resc1440.bin, drv1440.bin,
base2_0.tgz, root.bin, linux, install.bat and loadlin.exe.
@@ -499,8 +499,8 @@
<H3> Installing from a CD </H3>
<P>
-You are very likely to be installing from an official debian CD. Booting
-a debian CD is as easy as putting the CD in the drive, and booting off the
+You are very likely to be installing from an official Debian CD. Booting
+a Debian CD is as easy as putting the CD in the drive, and booting off the
CD if your BIOS supports it. In the case that your computer does not
support bootable CDs, you should boot into DOS, and execute boot.bat file
which is located in the \boot directory on your CD.
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@
<H3>Writing from a Linux or Unix System</H3>
-<P>Some systems attempt to automaticaly mount a floppy disk when you
+<P>Some systems attempt to automatically mount a floppy disk when you
place it in the drive. You might have to disable this feature before the
workstation will allow you to write a floppy in <I>raw mode</I>. Unfortunately,
I don't know the command necessary to do this for your particular workstation.
@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@
being prompted for the root floppy. If you boot from a 1.2MB floppy
drive, you have to use a ramdisk boot method, and you will need the
Root Disk. If you have any hardware devices that aren't made
-accessable from Linux correctly when Linux boots, you may find a
+accessible from Linux correctly when Linux boots, you may find a
parameter to add to the boot command line in the screens you see by
pressing F4 and F5. If you add any parameters to the boot command
line, be sure to type the boot method (the default is <B>linux</B>)
@@ -695,7 +695,7 @@
for a while. This happens when it is waiting for a device to respond, and
that device is not present on your system. If you find the time it takes
to boot the system unacceptably long, you can create a <I>custom kernel</I>
-once you've installed your system without all of the drivers for non-existant
+once you've installed your system without all of the drivers for non-existent
devices.</P>
<p>
@@ -867,7 +867,7 @@
disk partitioning process, or you haven't made one of the menu choices
dealing with your swap partition. </P>
-<P>You can initialize a Linux Disk partition, or alternatedly you can mount
+<P>You can initialize a Linux Disk partition, or alternatively you can mount
a previously-initialized one. </P>
<P>These floppies will not upgrade an old system without removing the files
@@ -917,9 +917,9 @@
<P> There is a menu selection for PCMCIA device drivers, but you need not
use it . Once your system is installed, you can install the <B>pcmcia-cs</B>
-package. This detects PCMCIA cards automaticaly, and configures the
+package. This detects PCMCIA cards automatically, and configures the
ones it finds. It also copes with hot-plugging the cards while the system
-is booted - they will all be configured as they are plugged in, and de-confugured
+is booted - they will all be configured as they are plugged in, and de-configured
when you unplug them.</P>
<H3>Configure the Network</H3>
@@ -1006,7 +1006,7 @@
be asked to install a master boot record. If you aren't using a boot manager
(and this is probably the case if you don't know what a boot manager is),
answer <B>yes</B> to this question. The next question will be whether you
-want to boot Linux automaticaly from the hard disk when you turn on your
+want to boot Linux automatically from the hard disk when you turn on your
system. This sets Linux to be the <I>bootable partition</I> - the one that
will be loaded from the hard disk. If you answer <B>no</B> to this question,
you can set the bootable partition later using the DOS <B>fdisk</B> program,
@@ -1048,7 +1048,7 @@
a personal login as well, and that's the one you should use to send and
receive e-mail and perform most of your work - not root. The reason to
avoid using root's privileges is that you might be tricked into running
-a <I>trojan-horse</I> program - that is a program that takes advantage
+a <I>Trojan-horse</I> program - that is a program that takes advantage
of your super-user power to compromise the security of your system behind
your back. Any good book on Unix system administration will cover this
topic in more detail - consider reading one if it's new to you. The good
@@ -1093,18 +1093,20 @@
to the network, you can safely skip this section.
<P>
-The base system includes ppp package. This package allows you to connect
-to your ISP using ppp. Below are some basic instructions for setting up
-your ppp connection. You may also need to consult
-/usr/doc/ppp/README.debian file, and/or install the pppconfig package
+The base system includes ppp package. This package allows you to
+connect to your ISP using ppp. Below are some basic instructions for
+setting up your ppp connection. You may also need to consult
+/usr/doc/ppp/README.debian.gz file (to read files with a .gz ending,
+simply run 'zless filename.gz', like 'zless
+/usr/doc/ppp/README.debian.gz'), and/or install the pppconfig package
which comes with Debian, but is not part of the base system.
<P>
Edit /etc/ppp/peers/provider and replace '/dev/modem' with '/dev/ttyS#' where
-# stands for the number of your COM port. Please remember that in linux, the
-count starts from 0, so COM1 is /dev/ttyS0 under linux. Next step is to edit
+# stands for the number of your COM port. Please remember that in Linux, the
+count starts from 0, so COM1 is /dev/ttyS0 under Linux. Next step is to edit
/etc/chatscripts/provider and insert your provider's phone number, your
-username and password. Please do not delete the '/q' that precedes the
+username and password. Please do not delete the '\q' that precedes the
password. It hides the password from appearing in your log files.
<P>
@@ -1132,7 +1134,7 @@
<h2>Technical Information on the Boot Floppies</h2>
<h3>Source Code</h3>
The "boot-floppies" package contains all of the source code for the
-installaton floppies.
+installation floppies.
<h3>The Rescue Floppy</h3>
The Rescue Floppy is an MS-DOS filesystem, and you should be able to access
it from a DOS or Windows system or anything else that can mount DOS disks.
@@ -1182,4 +1184,5 @@
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