The Wakes Book

Wakes GNU/Linux 0.1

Guillaume Kielwasser

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Revision History
Revision 0.109 Sept 2008G. Kielwasser
Creation of this document
Revision 0.219 Oct 2009G. Kielwasser
First usefull documentation
Revision 0.306 Aug 2010G. Kielwasser
Main contribution
Revision 0.425 Nov 2010G. Kielwasser
Added License, modified book info

About this document

Understanding this document assume a certain knowledge of UNIX administration. It can serve as reminder of infrequently used admin commands, but not as novice guidance for beginners.


Table of Contents

I. Developer's Reference Manual
1. The Linux Kernel
1. Configuration
2. Compilation
3. Installation
2. Initramfs
1. Using the initial RAM disk (initrd)
2. Compressed cpio images
3. ISO Managment
1. ISO Content
1.1. isolinux
1.2. depot
2. ISO Creation
2.1. Full ISO creation
2.2. Slim ISO creation:
4. Wakes installer
1. Installer call
2. Install process description
5. Package manager
1. Files and directories
2. Create a package
6. Xorg build
II. Installation Guide
7. Download
8. CDROM Install
9. Post installation
III. Administrator's Guide
10. Grub
11. LVM
12. Qemu
1. Network settings
2. Running Qemu to test a new kernel
3. Running VM as deamon with VNC
4. Running VMs with TAP network
5. Running Qemu with ncurses library
6. Ultimate Qemu script with VIRTIO
7. Kernel configuration
13. Java
14. Silc server
15. MySQL
16. X11
1. xterm
2. screenshot
17. FVWM
A. GNU Free Documentation License