Notes on this book

Linux Installation and Getting Started is an installation and new-user guide to the Linux system. Linux is a free clone of the UNIX operating system developed for 80386 and 80486 machines. This book describes how to obtain and install Linux on your system, as well as how to start using it. Information on configuration of X-Windows, basic system administration, and much more is included.

This HTML version of the book was provided by Per Abrahamsen, abraham@research.att.com, and was generated using latex2html. As such, there are several technical glitches in the book---for example, Mosaic users will notice that anything which latex2html doesn't understand appears as the Moasic logo in the text. Please excuse these various problems; in the future I'll be producing a real HTML version (from SGML source) which should be much improved.

This book is available in various formats, such as PostScript, .dvi, LaTeX source, and plain ASCII from sunsite.unc.edu in the directory /pub/Linux/docs/LDP/install-guide. There are also several publishing companies distributing printed and bound copies of the book; see the README file there for details.

For your convenience, a link to that very FTP site is here. The full README file for this book is here.

If you have any questions about this book, please feel free to contact the author at mdw@sunsite.unc.edu.

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