Welcome to the October Edition of the InfoMagic Linux Developer's Resource CD-ROM 3 October 1994 First we would like to thank everyone for their patience and understanding during our move from New Jersey to Arizona. We are essentially back in full operation and beginning with this release will get back to our 2-month update cycle. This release would not have been possible without the tremendous help of Mark Horton and Randy Jarrett. Highlights of the current release: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kernel sources up to version 1.1.51, though we recommend only using as high as 1.1.50, and will not provide extensive support for 1.1.51 installations. XFree86 3.1 as just released by the XFree86 group. XFree86 2.1 and XFree86 2.1.1 are also included. DOOM for Linux. InfoMagic provided Linux CD's to ID Software to assist in the port and this is the reward ! You will find it in disc1/sunsite/games/x11/action/doom. Linus's kernel archive from funet.fi A demo of FlagShip, an DBase compiler for Linux, like Clipper under DOS. This was made available by Mark Bolzern. A live image of a full Slackware 2.0.1 installation that may be used to run directly from the CD via symbolic links. Sources for the Slackware 2.0 distribution. General Information about the Linux Developer's Resource ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 previous editions 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. See the RoadMap at the end of this file for the layout of the 2-CDs. 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. 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 1. 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 occurrences 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, select "File/Run" from the program manager and run X:\viewer\setup.exe (where X is your CD-ROM drive letter). The viewer 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. All of the distributions can be found off the root of disc 1 in the directory "distributions". Included distributions and their versions are shown below. Slackware 2.0.1 SLS 1.0.5 TAMU 1.0-A JE Latest version from May & June MCC 1.0+ Debian 0.91 Beta SLACKWARE 2.0.1 Notes: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This release is a minor update to Slackware 2.0. The kernel versions are unchanged from 2.0. Later kernels can be built from the sources and patch files provided in the "funet" directory. Slackware is found below the "distributions" directory. The installation sets are in the directory "slackware" to match the InfoMagic menu option in the CD-ROM installation. The Boot & Root disks are in the directory "slakinst" to make them easier to find under DOS (where long file names are not allowed :-). Please refer to the installation notes in the "slakware" directory before proceeding. Contributed software is in the directory "distributions/slackware/contrib" on disc 1 and sources for the 2.0 release are in the "slacksrc" directory on disc 2. Refer to the RoadMap below for the disc location of these directories. Notes for NewComers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In the "howto" subdirectory of disc 1, 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 the "distributions/slakinst" directory on disc 1 for help in getting started. The tools used to create the bootable floppies, for all the distributions, are in the directory "dos_util" on disc 1. 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. You will need to use the GZIP program with the -D switch to uncompress the boot and root images, and then use the RAWRITE program to copy them to a DOS formatted floppy. The boot images are found in the \distribu\slakinst\boot12 and \distribu\slakinst\boot144 diretories. The root disks are found in \distribu\slakinst\root12 and \distribu\slakinst\root144. GZIP & RAWRITE are provided in the "dos_util" directory off the root of disc 1. Note: The directory names shown above are DOS format. The actual file name which will show up in Linux is "distributions/slakinst/..." Additional Information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The file "00_find" contains the result of the command: "find . -type f -print" from the root of both discs. 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 file named "utree.usage" is provided which 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. Technical Support ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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: 602-526-9852 (Tech Support) 602-526-9565 (Orders) 800-800-6613 (Within the US and Canada) FAX: 602-526-9573 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: info@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/howto HowTo documents in text format disc1/sunsite Archive from sunsite.unc.edu disc1/viewer Microsoft Multimedia Viewer and HowTo Docs. disc2/x11 XFree86 distributions including XF386-3.1 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/morehowto HowTo documents in other formats disc2/slacksrc Sources for the Slackware 2.0 distribution (Compressed). disc2/funet Linus's Kernel source archive including a tar file with sources at v1.1.50 disc2/flagship Demo of FlagShip, a dBase compiler for Linux. 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. The following people have provided help and advice in the preparation of these CD's: Randy Jarrett (RSJ@Radio.org) Mark Horton (mah@ka4ybr.atl.ga.us) Fred van Kempen (waltje@infomagic.com) Jan Janssen (janssen@sci.kun.nl)