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Proposed announcement etc, 4.th revision
This I hope is the final version and I hope you will bear with me
for this thread.
Updates have been mainly cosmetic, a sign we are close enough
to submit.
The announcement will be sent out as soon as I get green light
here. I feel the web site has the right functional layout to
welcome the masses who no doubt will soon decend upon it.
Is there any news on hit counters? Not necessarily displayed
on the front page but as statistics elsewhere perhaps?
The intro.ldp should also be ready for inclusion in man pages
collections, any comments from the present manpage maintainer?
The sample man page stub for the Multi Disk HOWTO would
probably belong to the package with HOWTOs. Also I hope we
can recruit a script programmer to do the post install
fixup of the correct paths.
Good news: I am now in contact with Freshmeat and people
unsing the services there and will return with more
information later.
When the announcement is out the LWN article will be submitted.
An updated LWN entry will be coming soon.
Rather than posting the raw and messy roff page I
will just give the links:
intro.ldp http://www.nyx.net/~sgjoen/intro.ldp
intro.txt http://www.nyx.net/~sgjoen/intro.txt (with formatting!)
disk.ldp http://www.nyx.net/~sgjoen/disk.ldp
disk.txt http://www.nyx.net/~sgjoen/disk.txt (with formatting!)
If someone wished to put this on the LDP site it might be a
good idea to process with man2html to retain the formatting.
Unfortunately it is missing from my machine, otherwise I would
have done it already.
==(Announcement)===
After some restructuring of the Linux Documentation Project (LDP)
we feel ready to serve the Linux community from the new home:
http://www.LinuxDoc.org/
The LDP has collected and produced numerous documents such as
- guides
- HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs
- FAQs
- man pages
and more.
All in all the LDP endeavors to produce and provide a one-stop source of
information relating to the various aspects of Linux. There is now
a search engine on the front page to help you quickly and efficiently
locate the documents you need. If you have a question, chances are you
will find what you need here.
These documents are produced for you, the end users. That means if there
is anything in the documents you find unclear, ambiguous or incorrect
you should not hesitate in contacting the author. While the workload of
the authors in general may be high and they cannot be expected to answer
specific problems you may have on your machine, generally authors are
only happy to receive feedback on the documents.
Likewise, if you feel you have something to contribute or you wish to try
your hands as an LDP author you are welcome to contact the LDP coordinator
with your inputs (see the HOWTO-HOWTO). Remember that new documents are
produced all the time so it is important to contact the LDP before you
start writing in order to eliminate the possibility of duplicate work.
Remember that you do not have to be on-line to read the HOWTOs, in many
cases these documents are installed with your Linux distribution and can
be found at
file:///usr/doc/HOWTO /usr/doc/HOWTO/
===(intro.txt)===
LDP Introduction(ldp) LDP Introduction(ldp)
NAME
LDP - Intro to the Linux Documentation Project, with help,
guides and documents
SYNOPSIS
The Linux Documentation Project (LDP) provides a variety
of free documentation resources including guides, FAQs,
HOWTOs, and man-pages to the Linux community.
AUTHORS
The various documents in the LDP archives are maintained
by individual authors, and are listed in the beginning of
each HOWTO. If you have any questions or inputs to a docu-
ment we encourage you to contact the authors directly.
WEB PAGES
The LDP now has its own dedicated web site as do many of
the various translations projects which are linked from
the main LDP web site at http://www.LinuxDoc.org/
MAILING LISTS
LDP has a number of mailing lists, mostly of use for
authors:
<ldp-announce@lists.LinuxDoc.org>
Announcements from the LDP project
<ldp-discuss@lists.LinuxDoc.org>
General discussion on the LDP project
To join these lists send a mail with a body of "subscribe"
to <ldp-announce-request@lists.LinuxDoc.org> or <ldp-dis-
cuss-request@lists.LinuxDoc.org> respectively. These mail-
ing lists are also archived at the LinuxDoc site.
FILES
Most distributions include the HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs in
the installation
/usr/doc/ (most documentation is here)
/usr/doc/HOWTO/ (HOWTO files)
/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/ (mini-HOWTO files)
SEE ALSO
man(1), info(1)
info pages as read with emacs(1) or info(1).
LDP February 6, 2000 1
===(disk.txt)===
Multi Disk HOWTO(ldp) Multi Disk HOWTO(ldp)
NAME
Multi Disk HOWTO - Multi disk design, partitioning, for-
matting, tuning and maintenance
ABSTRACT
This document describes how best to use multiple disks and
partitions for a Linux system. Although some of this text
is Linux specific the general approach outlined here can
be applied to many other multi tasking operating systems.
LOCATION
The Multi Disk HOWTO is located at /usr/doc/HOWTO/
FILES
Most distributions include the HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs in
the installation
/dev/ (device files)
/etc/fstab (mount list)
/etc/mdtab (old style RAID table)
/etc/raidtab (new style RAID table)
RELATED HOWTOS
Tips, Partition, Partition Rescue, Large-Disk, LILO, Soft-
ware-RAID, Upgrade
SEE ALSO
fdisk(8), cfdisk(8), sfdisk(8), fips(8), mkfs(8),
mke2fs(8), tune2fs(8), dumpe2fs(8), fsck(8), fsck.ext2(8)
or e2fsck(8), mount(8), umount(8), df(1), du(1),
intro(ldp)
LDP February 6, 2000 1
===(end)===
Regards,
Stein Gjoen
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