This document is probably not ideally suited for absolute UN*X beginners;
if you feel like you'd first better get an overview of what Linux or a
Unix-like operating system can give you before going through the torture
of installing and configuring Linux, you might want to read introductory
literature on this topic. If you have access to the Internet or BBSs with
Linux-specific stuff, look out for the LDP (Linux Documentation Project)
directory/board. Somewhere in there you will hopefully find a couple of
files like
-rw-rw-r-- 1 imurdock 233344 Jul 11 09:06 install-guide-2.1.1.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 imurdock 399384 Jul 11 09:06 install-guide-2.1.1.ps.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 imurdock 285738 Jul 11 09:06 install-guide-2.1.1.dvi.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 imurdock 6909 Jul 11 09:06 install-guide-2.1.1.README
This is the Linux Installation and Getting Started book. Although it
has been written for Linux/ix86 users, Linux/m68k people can find a lot of
helpful information in here, too.
Please note that you will probably need a Postscript-capable laser
printer to print out this book (unless, of course, you get the .dvi.gz
file and convert it to whatever format your printer understands; but
this will require an installed LaTeX system).
This is an english book, written by Matt Welsh and others. There is also a similar book in German, but I do not know anymore where I got the Postscript file for this from; anyway, it has been published by now:
Hetze, Sebastian; Mueller, Martin u. a.: Linux Anwenderhandbuch und Leitfaden für die Systemverwaltung 2. erweiterte und aktualisierte Auflage lunetIX Softfair 1993 ISBN 3-929764-01-6
This is the information about the second edition. There might already be another release out by now. Ask your local bookstore about that.
The second book is more targeted at the Unix beginner, while the
Installation Guide requires a little knowledge in Unix-environments.
Both, however, explain a lot of typical Unix subjects: The filesystem,
users, processes, administrative work and system configuration.
While in the PC Linux world a handful of different binary distributions
exist (SLS, Slackware, MCC Interim, Yggdrasil), the Linux/m68k port does
not yet offer something like that, except for what you can find on the
ftp site tsx-11.mit.edu (or its mirrors) under /pub/linux/680x0.
However, several people seem to have started (or planned) putting together
binary distributions, so this should soon change.
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