The "HOWTOs" are documents which are often very elaborative relative to a given subject. For example, to engrave CDs under Linux, consult the "CD-Writing HOWTO". To set up a "firewall", consult the "firewall HOWTO".
The HOWTOs must first of all be installed (if they are not already). To do this, insert your CD, go to the directory Mandrake/RPMS/ and install the file ``howto-5.2-2.noarch.rpm" (the exact name depends on your current Mandrake version).
If you are in the shell, type rpm -i howto-5.2-2.noarch.rpm (attention: this package uses 40 MB once installed),
If you are under X-Window with kfm, click on the icon corresponding to the package ``howto''. This will launch "kpackage" and you will be able to install the HOWTOs.
You can also consult all these documents on you local hard disk in the directory /usr/doc/HOWTO/ in several formats: in text, in html (viewed with kfm or netscape), or dvi (viewed with "xdvi"). The directory /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/ contains "mini-HOWTOs".
The following is a list of available HOWTOs.
Access-HOWTO
Alpha-HOWTO
Assembly-HOWTO
Benchmarking-HOWTO
Boot-disk-HOWTO
BootPrompt-HOWTO
Bootdisk-HOWTO
Busmouse-HOWTO
CD-Writing-HOWTO
CDROM-HOWTO
Chinese-HOWTO
Commercial-HOWTO
Configuration-HOWTO
DNS-HOWTO
DOS-to-Linux-HOWTO
DOSEMU-HOWTO
DOStoLinux-HOWTO
Database-HOWTO
Distribution-HOWTO
ELF-HOWTO
Ethernet-HOWTO
Firewall-HOWTO
Ftape-HOWTO
GCC-HOWTO
Glibc2-HOWTO
HAM-HOWTO
Hardware-HOWTO
IPX-HOWTO
ISP-Hookup-HOWTO
Installation-HOWTO
Java-CGI-HOWTO
Java-HOWTO
Kernel-HOWTO
Keyboard-HOWTO
LinuxDoc-Emacs-Ispell-HOWTO
Liste-des-HOWTO
MGR-HOWTO
Mail-HOWTO
Modems-HOWTO
Module-HOWTO
NET-3-HOWTO
NFS-HOWTO
NIS-HOWTO
Net2-HOWTO
Networking-Overview-HOWTO
News-HOWTO
Oracle-HOWTO
PCI-HOWTO
PPP-FAQ
PPP-HOWTO
PostgreSQL-HOWTO
Printing-HOWTO
Printing-Usage-HOWTO
Reading-List-HOWTO
Root-RAID-HOWTO
SCSI-HOWTO
SCSI-Programming-HOWTO
SMB-HOWTO
SRM-HOWTO
Serial-HOWTO
Serial-Programming-HOWTO
Shadow-Password-HOWTO
Sound-HOWTO
Sound-Playing-HOWTO
TeTEX-HOWTO
Term-HOWTO
Tips-HOWTO
UMSDOS-HOWTO
UPS-HOWTO
UUCP-HOWTO
VAR-HOWTO
Video-HOWTO
Virtual-Services-HOWTO
Visual-Bell-HOWTO
WWW-HOWTO
WWW-mSQL-HOWTO
XFree86-HOWTO
3-Button-Mouse
Advocacy
Anon-ftp
BogoMips
Bridge+Firewall
Bzip2
CD-Writing
Cable-Modem
Clock
Colour-ls
Cyrus-IMAP
DHCPcd
DHCPd
DPT-Hardware-RAID
Dial-On-Demand
Diskless
Ext2fs-Undeletion
Fax-Server
Hard-disk-upgrade
IO-Port
IP-Alias
IP-Masquerade
IP-Subnetworking
ISP-Connectivity
Install-From-ZIP
Jaz
Jaz-Drive
Kerneld
LBX
LILO
Large-IDE
Leased-Line
Linux+FreeBSD
Linux+NT-Loader
Linux+Win95
MIDI+SB
Mail2News
Man-Page
Modules
Multi-Ethernet
NFS-Root
NFS-Root-Client
PPP-over-minicom
Postgres
Pre-Installation-Checklist
Proxy-ARP
Public-Web-Browser
Quota
RCS
RPM+Slackware
Remote-X-Apps
Sendmail+UUCP
Sig11
Slip+ProxyARP
Small-Memory
Soundblaster-AWE
StarOffice
Swap-Space
Term-Firewall
TkRat
Token-Ring
Update
Virtual-wu-ftpd
Visual-Bell
Win95+Win+Linux
Win95+Win3x+Linux
X-Terminal
XFree86-XInside
Xterm-Title
ZIP-Drive
ZIP-Install
ZipIomega