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+<!-- retain these comments for translator revision tracking -->
+<!-- $Id$ -->
+
+<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 &mdash; 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>
+