Chapter 1. Structure of the document

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Overview
Contributions and Feedback
Changelog

Overview

The LEAF "Bering" user's guide is organized around practical problems (and hopefully solutions) encountered by many Bering users. Users contributions are encouraged and welcomed. They can be send to the authors either in plain ASCII form or - better - in Docbook XML format. XML source code are available to everyone and can be used as templates.

Basic prior knowledge of linux and of the LEAF Bering distro (or any other LEAF distributions like Dachstein or Oxygen) is assumed. In particular the reader is supposed to be able to perform the following tasks:

  • Add or remove a package to/from a LEAF distribution through editing of the floppy syslinux.cfg file and move it to (out of) the Bering floppy disk

  • Add or remove a Bering linux kernel module by moving it to (out of) /lib/modules or /boot/lib/modules directory

  • Adjust the parameters of a given package through the LEAF configuration menu and backup a package

The following reference is a prerequisite reading: