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author | Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> | 2005-10-07 19:51:38 +0000 |
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committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> | 2005-10-07 19:51:38 +0000 |
commit | 1ea73eea5ecc6a8ed901316049259aee737ee554 (patch) | |
tree | 03a077f0b1b1548f3c806bd1c5795964fba0fb52 /ca/administrivia/administrivia.xml | |
download | installation-guide-1ea73eea5ecc6a8ed901316049259aee737ee554.zip |
move manual to top-level directory, split out of debian-installer package
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diff --git a/ca/administrivia/administrivia.xml b/ca/administrivia/administrivia.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..611b58af0 --- /dev/null +++ b/ca/administrivia/administrivia.xml @@ -0,0 +1,155 @@ +<!-- retain these comments for translator revision tracking --> +<!-- original version: 29689 untranslated --> + +<appendix id="administrivia"> + <title>Administrivia</title> + + + <sect1 id="about"> + <title>About This Document</title> + +<para> + +This manual was created for Sarge's debian-installer, based on +the Woody installation manual for boot-floppies, which was based +on earlier Debian installation manuals, and on the Progeny +distribution manual which was released under GPL in 2003. + +</para><para> + +This document is written in DocBook XML. Output formats are generated +by various programs using information from the +<classname>docbook-xml</classname> and +<classname>docbook-xsl</classname> packages. + +</para><para> + +In order to increase the maintainability of this document, we use +a number of XML features, such as entities and profiling attributes. +These play a role akin to variables and conditionals in programming +languages. The XML source to this document contains information for +each different architecture — profiling attributes are used to +isolate certain bits of text as architecture-specific. + +<!-- +</para><para> + +Translators can uncomment this paragraph and add an acknowledgement +to the people responsible for the translation of the manual. +Translation teams are advised to just mention the coordinator and maybe +major contributors and thank everybody else in a phrase like "all +translators and reviewers from the translation team for <your language> +at <your l10n mailinglist>". + +(Note: support for this for translations using PO files will be added + soon.) +--> + +</para> + </sect1> + + <sect1 id="contributing"> + <title>Contributing to This Document</title> + +<para> + +If you have problems or suggestions regarding this document, you +should probably submit them as a bug report against the package +<classname>debian-installer-manual</classname>. See the +<classname>reportbug</classname> package or read the online +documentation of the <ulink url="&url-bts;">Debian Bug +Tracking System</ulink>. It would be nice if you could check the +<ulink url="&url-bts;debian-installer-manual">open bugs against +debian-installer-manual</ulink> to see whether your problem has +already been reported. If so, you can supply additional corroboration +or helpful information to +<email><replaceable>XXXX</replaceable>@bugs.debian.org</email>, +where <replaceable>XXXX</replaceable> is the number for the +already-reported bug. + +</para><para> + +Better yet, get a copy of the DocBook source for this document, and +produce patches against it. The DocBook source can be found at the +<ulink url="&url-d-i-websvn;">debian-installer WebSVN</ulink>. If +you're not familiar with DocBook, don't worry: +there is a simple cheatsheet in the manuals directory that will get +you started. It's like html, but oriented towards the meaning of +the text rather than the presentation. Patches submitted to the +debian-boot mailing list (see below) are welcomed. +For instructions on how to check out the sources via SVN, see +<ulink url="&url-d-i-readme;">README</ulink> +from the source root directory. + +</para><para> + +Please do <emphasis>not</emphasis> contact the authors of this +document directly. There is also a discussion list for &d-i;, which +includes discussions of this manual. The mailing list is +<email>debian-boot@lists.debian.org</email>. Instructions for +subscribing to this list can be found at the <ulink +url="&url-debian-lists-subscribe;">Debian Mailing +List Subscription</ulink> page; or you can browse the <ulink +url="&url-debian-list-archives;">Debian Mailing List Archives</ulink> +online. + +</para> + + </sect1> + + <sect1 id="contributors"> + <title>Major Contributions</title> + +<para> + +This document was originally written by Bruce Perens, Sven Rudolph, Igor +Grobman, James Treacy, and Adam Di Carlo. Sebastian Ley wrote the +Installation Howto. +Many, many Debian users and developers contributed to this document. +Particular note must be made of Michael Schmitz (m68k support), Frank +Neumann (original author of the <ulink +url="&url-m68k-old-amiga-install;">Amiga install manual</ulink>), +Arto Astala, Eric Delaunay/Ben Collins (SPARC information), Tapio +Lehtonen, and Stéphane Bortzmeyer for numerous edits and text. +We have to thank Pascal Le Bail for useful information about booting +from USB memory sticks. Miroslav Kuře has documented a lot of the new +functionality in Sarge's debian-installer. + +</para><para> + +Extremely helpful text and information was found in Jim Mintha's HOWTO +for network booting (no URL available), the <ulink +url="&url-debian-faq;">Debian FAQ</ulink>, the <ulink +url="&url-m68k-faq;">Linux/m68k FAQ</ulink>, the <ulink +url="&url-sparc-linux-faq;">Linux for SPARC Processors +FAQ</ulink>, the <ulink +url="&url-alpha-faq;">Linux/Alpha +FAQ</ulink>, amongst others. The maintainers of these freely +available and rich sources of information must be recognized. + +</para><para> + +The section on chrooted installations in this manual +(<xref linkend="linux-upgrade"/>) was derived in part from +documents copyright Karsten M. Self. + +</para><para arch="i386"> + +The section on installations over plip in this manual +(<xref linkend="plip"/>) was based on the +<ulink url="&url-plip-install-howto;">PLIP-Install-HOWTO</ulink> +by Gilles Lamiral. + +</para> + </sect1> + + <sect1 id="trademarks"> + <title>Trademark Acknowledgement</title> +<para> + +All trademarks are property of their respective trademark owners. + +</para> + </sect1> +</appendix> + |