Credits and Legalese

The Linux Documentation Project is a loose team of writers, proofreaders, and editors who are working on a set of definitive Linux manuals. The overall coordinator of the project is Matt Welsh, aided by Lars Wirzenius and Michael K. Johnson.

This manual is but one in a set of several being distributed by the Linux Documentation Project, including a Linux User's Guide, System Administrator's Guide, and Kernel Hacker's Guide. These manuals are all available in source format and Postscript output for anonymous FTP from sunsite.unc.edu, in the directory /pub/Linux/docs/LDP.

We encourage anyone with a penchant for writing or editing to join us in improving Linux documentation. If you have Internet e-mail access, you can join the DOC channel of the Linux-Activists mailing list by sending mail to

linux-activists-request@niksula.hut.fi

with the line

X-Mn-Admin: join DOC

as the first line of the message body.

Feel free to get in touch with the author and coordinator of this manual if you have questions, postcards, money, or ideas. Matt Welsh can be reached via Internet e-mail at mdw@sunsite.unc.edu, and in real life at

205 Gray Street
Wilson, N.C. 27896
U.S.A.

UNIX is a trademark of X/Open.
Linux is not a trademark, and has no connection to UNIX or X/Open.
The X Window System is a trademark of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows are trademarks of Microsoft, Inc.

Copyright © 1992--1994 Matt Welsh
205 Gray Street NE, Wilson NC, 27893 USA
mdw@sunsite.unc.edu

Linux Installation and Getting Started may be reproduced and distributed, in whole or in part, subject to the following conditions:

1. The copyright notice above and this permission notice must be preserved complete on all complete or partial copies.

2. Any translation or derivative work of Linux Installation and Getting Started must be approved by the author in writing before distribution.

3. If you distribute Linux Installation and Getting Started in part, instructions for obtaining the complete version of this manual must be included, and a means for obtaining a complete version provided.

4. Small portions may be reproduced as illustrations for reviews or quotes in other works without this permission notice if proper citation is given.

5. The GNU General Public License referenced below may be reproduced under the conditions given within it.

6. Several sections of this document are held under separate copyright. When these sections are covered by a different copyright, the separate copyright is noted. If you distribute Linux Installation and Getting Started in part, and that part is, in whole, covered under a separate, noted copyright, the conditions of that copyright apply.

Exceptions to these rules may be granted for academic purposes: Write to Matt Welsh, at the above address, or email mdw@sunsite.unc.edu, and ask. These restrictions are here to protect us as authors, not to restrict you as educators and learners.

The author encourages distributors of Linux software in any medium to use the book as an installation and new user guide. Given the copyright above, you are free to print and distribute copies of this book with your software. You may either distribute this book free of charge, or for profit. If doing so, you may wish to include a short ``installation supplement'' for your release.

The author would like to know of any plans to publish and distribute this book commercially. In this way, we can ensure that you are kept up-to-date with new revisions. And, should a new version be right around the corner, you might wish to delay your publication of the book until it is available.

If you are distributing this book commercially, donations, royalties, and/or printed copies are greatly appreciated by the author. Contributing in this way shows your support for free software and the Linux Documentation Project.

All source code in Linux Installation and Getting Started is placed under the GNU General Public License. See Appendix E for a copy of the GNU ``GPL.''