1. Introduction

1.1. Copyright Information

Copyright ╘ 2001, 2002 Charles Curley and distributed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) license, stated below. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

If you have any questions, please contact <linux-howto at metalab.unc.edu>.

1.2. Disclaimers

No liability for the contents of this documents can be accepted by the author, the Linux Documentation Project or anyone else. Use the concepts, examples and other content at your own risk. There may be errors and inaccuracies that may be damaging to your system. Proceed with caution, and although errors are unlikely, the author(s) take no responsibility for them.

All copyrights are held by their by their respective owners, unless specifically noted otherwise. Use of a term in this document should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark or service mark.

Naming of particular products or brands should not be seen as endorsements.

You are strongly recommended to take a backup of your system before major installation and backups at regular intervals.

In addition, you are strongly recommended to use a sacrificial experimental computer when mucking with the material, espcially the scripts, in this HOWTO.

1.3. New Versions

You can find this document at its home page or at the Linux Documentation Project homepage in many formats. Please comment to <ccurley at trib dot com>

• bzip2 compressed chunky (lots of small pages. Faster reading.) HTML.

• bzip2 compressed smooth (one monster page -- no chunks. Easier to search.) HTML.

• bzip2 compressed postscript (US letter format).

• bzip2 compressed PDF (US letter format).

• bzip2 compressed raw ASCII text.

• Use the source, Luke.

1.4. Credits

This document is derived from two articles originally published in Linux Journal. My thanks to Linux Journal for reverting the rights to those articles, thereby helping make this HOWTO possible.

Thanks to Joy Y Goodreau for excellent HOWTO editing.

1.5. Feedback

Feedback is most certainly welcome for this document. Without your corrections, suggestions and other input, this document wouldn't exist. Please send your additions, comments and criticisms to me at: <ccurley at trib.com>.

1.6. Translations

Not everyone speaks English. Volunteers are welcome.