Linux Assembly HOWTO is available in several formats, choose the one that suits you best.
Actually you can:
- read it online
- download compressed html tarball and read it offline
- download compressed sgml source (DocBook DTD) and render it to whatever you want
You can get this HOWTO in other formats (like PDF, PostScript or plain text) from the LDP repository.
Just get all the HOWTOs (you need only the `LDP’ one), copy, for each format:
# cp LDP/h19* /wherever/documentation # cd /wherever/documentation;packages=’docbook docbook-dtd42′; \ for i in $packages; do (cd $i && zcat ../$i.gz >$i); done
This will produce all formats in ./<format>.
On Debian GNU/Linux you’ll also have to install docbook packages, but this will be handled automatically when you use dselect or aptitude programs.
For more info about DocBook installation check out http://www.debian.org .
The files are compressed using gzip program.
We’ll now present the HOWTO with screenshots, you can visit this page with any graphical browser or just ssh to your Linux machine and use lynx command with the -dump option:
# ipkg install xfonts-scalable # cd /usr/share/X11/fonts/truetype # wget http://linuxassembly.org/art.ttf # mkdir ttf # mv art.ttf ttf # ln -s ttf/art.ttf ./* -R && cp LDP/*html* ./ && cd .. && tar cfz linux-assembly-howto.tgz linux-assembly-howto/*
You need to have the X Window System installed on your machine.
You need also TrueType fonts support in your Linux installation, which can be obtained by installing xfonts-scalable package.
We’ll assume that you downloaded the linux-assembly-howto.tgz file in ~/Downloads directory and you uncompressed it in /usr/share/X11/fonts/truetype .
Here’s what you get when you use lynx command with the -dump option:
# cd # ls -lart total 968 drwxr-xr-x 11 root wheel 1024 Feb 16 00:55 LDP -rw-r–r– 1 jdike jdike 51644 Jun 7 2004 linux-assembly-howto.tgz -rw-r–r– 1 jdike jdike 493 Jan 28 2004 LDPLASTCHANGE -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1024 Feb 3 13:17 LICENSE -rw——- 1 jdike jdike 3088 Jul 29 2003 config.guess drwx—— 2 jdike jdike 512 Mar 12 22:09 fbset lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 5 Mar 15 19:50 howto -> ../../doc/HOWTO -rw——- 1 root bin 63872 Aug 21 2002 install.sub drwx—— 2 root wheel 2048 Jun 16 02:05 info drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 2048 Mar 10 14:19 install drwx—— 2 jdike jdike 1024 Mar 9 02:10 linux.png -rw——- 1 root wheel 9216 Jan 27 2004 microemacs.css drwx—— 2 root wheel 512 Nov 7 2003 nano -rw——- 1 root wheel 5468850 Apr 3 12:45 new2dir lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 4 May 30 22:59 sfd -> ../../doc/HOWTOs/Linux+IP+Tunneling+Over+SerialLine -rw——- 1 jdike jdike 8204 Jul 23 2002 spiped.html -rw——- 1 jdike jdike
