Welcome to the June Edition of the InfoMagic Linux Developer's Resource CD-ROM These discs are published every two months (or so) and include snapshots of the TSX-11.MIT.EDU and Sunsite.UNC.EDU linux archives. As with the April edition we have included the complete gnu archive from prep.ai.mit.edu so as to be in full compliance with the GNU public license, a copy of which is provided in the gnu directory. We have also unpacked a number of things since the double disc set provides us lots more room. See the RoadMap at the end of this file. These discs are mastered in ISO-9660 format with Rock Ridge extensions to preserve the long mixed case filenames and deeply nested directory structure. Every directory includes a file "YMTRANS.TBL" which lists the ISO-9660 compliant alias and the original filename. The sources in the YM_UTILS directory can be used to either copy or create symbolic links on systems that do not support the Rock Ridge extensions. Beginning with this release we have included a completely unpacked ready to run "live filesystem". This was created by unpacking everything in the current Slackware distribution. It is located below the directory "live" on Disc 2. To use this you can either create links to the directories on the CD or simply copy things down to your hard disk. Patrick (the creator of Slackware) does not recommend running from an installation such as this, but we have provided it to address the overwhelming demand of our users. See notes below about Slackware 2.0 from which this filesystem was created. Some large packages common to tsx-11 & sunsite have been merged and put into top level directories. This includes the kernel distributions and XFree86. Other packages common to both Sunsite and TSX-11 have been eliminated from the TSX directories. The HowTo docs have been pulled out and put into a directory directly off the root of disc 2. The HowTo material is also provided in the form of a Microsoft Multimedia Viewer title (along with the Viewer software) for browsing/searching under Microsoft Windows. The Viewer supports both hypertext access to all the HowTo's and full-text search. You may search for single words or phrases and find all occurances in any of the documents. It will present a list of topics in which your search phrase was found as well as highlighting the text in each topic. We have provided a setup program for the Viewer software and HowTo docs, they may also be run directly from the CD. From the Program Manager of Windows, select "File/Run" and type in the following command: X:\viewer\mviewer2 HowTo.MVB where "X" is the letter corresponding to your CD-ROM. If you prefer you may also run the setup program found in the same directory which will copy all the necessary files to your harddisk and create a program manager group for the HowTo's. All of the distributions can be found off the root of disc1 in the directory "distributions", except Slackware. Included distributions and their versions are shown below. SLS 1.0.5 with modified boot images (see below) TAMU 1.0-A JE Latest version from May & June MCC 1.0+ debian 0.91 Beta The SLS boot images (a1.3 & a1.5) have been modified to accomodate the directory organization of this CD and can be used to install directly from the CD, assuming your hardware is supported. SLACKWARE 2.0 Notes: This release contains a significant update to Slackware. It is release 2.0 just announced by Patrick. This release is in its own directory off the root of disc1 because Patrick didn't have time to modify the menus to accomodate another layout. Please start by referring to the installation notes in the directory "slakinst" off the root of disc1. The distribution itself is in "slakware". The sources that correspond to this release are on disc2 in the directory "slacksrc". Contributed software is in "slakcont" on disc2. Notes for NewComers In the howto subdirectory of the second disc there are a series of HOWTO documents that provide detailed instructions on how to configure and install nearly every aspect of Linux. Please refer to these before starting if you have never done it before ! There is some additional material in the guide directory of disc 1. These documents are in UNIX(tm) format which means they do not end in CRLF, only LF and will therefore not print on most DOS systems. You will need to view them with an editor or word processor (or use the included Multimedia Viewer software) The easiest distribution to use seems to be Slackware. Please refer to the material in slakinst for help in getting started. The tools used to create the bootable floppies, for all the distributions, are in the directory "dos_util". This directory also contains a number of partition manipulation utilities including one called "fips" that can be used to resize DOS partitions without damaging them. Please read the file "fips09.doc" before using it. All of the Slackware kernel images are unzipped and ready to use. You will need to use the RAWRITE program in \dos_util to copy it to a floppy. The boot images are found in the slakinst/boot12 and slakinst/boot144 diretories. The root disks are found in slakinst/root12 and slakinst/root144. Additional Information The file "ls_ltr" contains the output of the command "ls -ltR" from the root of the discs. The file "00_find" contains the result of the command "find . -type f -print" also from the root. The utree package is provided to "browse" the filesystems on the CD's. A prebuilt executable is in the root of each disc along with the required startup files. The startup file ".utree" in the root should be copied to your home directory before running. The qtree script should be used to invoke utree. A utree.usage file is provided that contains useful information about using utree. qtree is a shell script that can be run from either bash or csh, but only from the login shell. If you are running it from another shell you must export (or setenv) manually the UTLIB and invoke utree as shown in the qtree script. InfoMagic is pleased to provide as much technical support as we can. Please do not hesitate to either email, FAX, or phone us with any questions on installation, hardware compatibility, or any other problem. If we don't know the answer we will try to find it for you ! email: support@InfoMagic.com Tel: 609-683-8760 FAX: 609-683-5502 For support in the UK and Europe, you may contact: Lasermoon, Ltd. 2a Beaconsfield Toad Fareham, Hants, England. PO16 0QB Tel: +44 (0) 329 826444 Fax: +44 (0) 329 825936 Email: ian@lasermoon.co.uk In addition to Linux support, Lasermoon are experts in all manner of Unix, Novell, and DOS systems and software. RoadMap ~~~~~~~ disc1/distributions Root of all included distributions disc1/dos_util Utilities for creating boot floppies, etc. disc1/guide Install Guide in text and postscript disc1/sunsite Archive from sunsite.unc.edu disc1/viewer Microsoft Multimedia Viewer and HowTo Docs. disc1/slakware Slackware 2.0 distribution disc1/slakinst Installation notes and boot images for Slackware 2.0 disc2/X11 XFree86 distributions disc2/gnu GNU sources from prep.ai.mit.edu disc2/tsx Archive from tsx-11.mit.edu disc2/live Completely unpacked binaries from Slackware 2.0 Distribution disc2/howto HowTo documents in various formats disc2/docs Other documents from Sunsite docs directory disc2/slakcont Contributed software for Slackware 2.0 distribution disc2/slacksrc Sources for the Slackware 2.0 distribution (Compressed). In addition each disc contains the following in the root directory: utree and associated files, see utree.usage for info. find_00 The result of the command "find . -type f -print" from the root of the discs. ls_ltr The result of the command "ls -ltR" also from the root. lsm.out A reformatted version of the Linux Software Map showing approximate locations of files on the two discs. Refer to find_00 for more accurate information. The following people have provided help and advice in the preparation of these CD's: Jan Janssen (janssen@sci.kun.nl) Fred van Kempen (waltje@aris.com) Mark Horton (mah@ka4ybr.atl.ga.us)