The Wakes Book

Wakes GNU/Linux 1.0

Guillaume Kielwasser

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Revision History
Revision 0.109 Sept 2008G. Kielwasser
Initial dump
Revision 0.219 Oct 2009G. Kielwasser
Initial write
Revision 0.306 Aug 2010G. Kielwasser
Main contribution
Revision 0.406 Aug 2012G. Kielwasser
Fit installation of gnuwakes 0.2 build number 025
Revision 0.509 Aug 2013G. Kielwasser
Added documentation on how to create the initramfs; Added details on the kernel configuration; Modified installation guide to fir build number 42
Revision 0.627 May 2014G. Kielwasser
Updated to fit Wakes version 0.3
Revision 0.722 June 2014G. Kielwasser
Updated to fit Wakes version 0.4
Revision 0.802 August 2015G. Kielwasser
Updated to fit Wakes version 1.0. This is an alpha revision.
Revision 0.923 September 2015G. Kielwasser
Removed images, fixed manual partition procedure.

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. Build the programs
2. Build the Linux kernel
3. Initramfs
4. ISO Managment
5. Wakes installer
6. Package manager
II. Installation Guide
7. Download
8. Installation
9. Post installation
III. Administrator's Guide
10. Grub
11. LVM
12. Console
13. OpenSSH SSH daemon
14. Qemu
15. Java
16. Silc server
17. MySQL
18. X11
19. FVWM
20. Tuning
IV. Software Compilaton
21. build
A. GNU Free Documentation License