mini HOWTO's
The following mini-HOWTOs are available:

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3 Button Mouse mini-HOWTO, by Geoff Short <geoff@kipper.york.ac.uk>. How to configure your mouse to use 3 buttons. Updated 31 May 1998. ADSM Backup mini-HOWTO, by Thomas Koenig <Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de>. How to install and use the ADSM backup program. Updated 15 January 1997. Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop (ADSL) mini-HOWTO, by David Fannin <dfannin@dnai.com>. Addresses the ordering, installation and configuration. Updated 10 April 1999. AI-Alife mini-HOWTO, by John A. Eikenberry <jae@ai.uga.edu>. Information about AI software for Linux. Updated 13 January 1998. Advocacy mini-HOWTO, by Paul L. Rogers <Paul.L.Rogers@li.org>. Suggestions on how to advocate the use of Linux. Updated 7 May 1998. Alsa Sound mini-HOWTO, by Valentijn Sessink. Describes the installation of the Alsa sound drivers for Linux. Updated 18 May 1999. Apache SSL PHP/FI frontpage mini-HOWTO, by Marcus Faure <marcus@faure.de>. Build a multipurpose webserver. Updated July 1998. Automount mini-HOWTO, by Don <don@sabotage.org>. This file describes the autofs automounter, how to configure it, and points out some problems to avoid. Updated 17 April 1999. Backup with MSDOS mini-HOWTO, by Christopher Neufeld <neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca>. How to backup Linux machines with MSDOS. Updated 5 August 1997. Battery Powered mini-HOWTO, by Hanno Mueller <hanno@lava.de>. How to reduce a Linux system's power consumption. Updated 21 December 1997. Boca mini-HOWTO, by David H Dennis <david@freelink.net>. How to install a Boca 16-port serial card (Boca 2016). Updated 1 August 1997. BogoMips mini-HOWTO, by Wim C.A. van Dorst <baron@clifton.hobby.nl>. Information about BogoMips. Updated 8 February 1999. Bridge mini-HOWTO, by Chris Cole <cole@lynkmedia.com>. How to setup an ethernet bridge. Updated 7 September 1998. Bridge+Firewall mini-HOWTO, by Peter Breuer <ptb@it.uc3m.es>. How to setup and ethernet bridge and firewall. Updated 19 December 1997. Bzip2 mini-HOWTO, by David Fetter <dfetter@best.com>. How to use the new bzip2 compression program. Updated 29 June 1998. Cable Modem mini-HOWTO, by Vladimir Vuksan <vuksan@veus.hr>. How to use a cable modem with a cable ISP. Updated 9 June 1999. Cipe+Masquerading mini-HOWTO, by Anthony Ciaravalo <acj@home.com>. How to setup a Virtual Private Network between your LAN and other LAN's using cipe through linux masquerading firewall machines. Updated 28 October 1998. Clock mini-HOWTO, by Ron Bean <rbean@execpc.com>. How to set and keep your clock on time. Updated December 1996. Coffee mini-HOWTO, by Georgatos Photis <gef@ceid.upatras.gr>. Thoughts about making coffee with Linux (humorous). Updated 15 January 1998. Colour ls mini-HOWTO, by Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@dit.ou.dk>. How to set up the colours with 'ls'. Updated 7 August 1997. Cyrus IMAP mini-HOWTO, by Kevin Mitchell <kevin@iserv.net>. How to install the Cyrus IMAP server. Updated 21 January 1998. DHCP mini-HOWTO, by Vladimir Vuksan <vuksan@veus.hr>. How to setup a DHCP Server and Client. Updated 11 June 1999. DPT Hardware RAID mini-HOWTO, by Ram Samudrala <me@ram.org>. How to configure hardware RAID. Updated 9 April 1999. Diald mini-HOWTO, by Harish Pillay <h.pillay@ieee.org>. How to use 'diald' to dial an ISP. Updated 3 June 1996. Ext2fs Undeletion mini-HOWTO, by Aaron Crane <aaronc@pobox.com>. How to retrieve deleted files from an ext2 filesystem. Updated 2 February 1999. Fax Server mini-HOWTO, by Erez Strauss <erez@newplaces.com>. How to setup a fax server. Update 8 November 1997. Firewall Piercing mini-HOWTO, by François-René Rideau <rideau@ens.fr>. Using ppp over telnet transparently through an Internet firewall. Updated 27 November 1998. GIS-GRASS mini-HOWTO, by David A. Hastings <dah@ngdc.noaa.gov>. How to install Geographic Information System (GIS) software. Updated 13 November 1997. GTEK BBS-550 mini-HOWTO, by Wajihuddin Ahmed <wahmed@sdnpk.undp.org>. How to setup the GTEK BBS-550 multiport board with Linux. Updated 20 August 1997. Hard Disk Upgrade mini-HOWTO, by Yves Bellefeuille <yan@ottawa.com>. How to copy a Linux system from one hard disk to another. Updated 31 January 1998. IO Port Programming mini-HOWTO, by Riku Saikkonen <Riku.Saikkonen@hut.fi>. How to use I/O ports in C programs. Updated 28 December 1997. IP Alias mini-HOWTO, by Harish Pillay <h.pillay@ieee.org>. How to use IP aliasing. Updated 13 January 1997. IP Masquerade mini-HOWTO, by Ambrose Au <ambrose@writeme.com>. How to use IP masquerading. Updated 07 February 1999. IP Subnetworking mini-HOWTO, by Robert Hart <hartr@interweft.com.au>. Why and how to subnetwork an IP network. Updated 31 March 1997. ISP Connectivity mini-HOWTO, by Michael Strates <mstrates@croftj.net>. How to get mail and news over a dialup connection. Updated 6 November 1997. Install From ZIP mini-HOWTO, by Kevin Snively <k.snively@seaslug.org>. How to install Linux from a parallel port ZIP drive. Updated 29 April 1998. Kerneld mini-HOWTO, by Henrik Storner <storner@osiris.ping.dk>. How to use 'kerneld' (dynamic module loading). Updated 19 July 1997. LBX mini-HOWTO, by Paul D. Smith <psmith@baynetworks.com>. How to use Low-Bandwidth X (LBX). Updated 11 December 1997. LILO mini-HOWTO, by Alessandro Rubini <rubini@linux.it>. Examples of typical LILO installations. Updated 16 August 1998. Large Disk mini-HOWTO, by Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>. How to use disks with > 1024 cylinders. Updated 26 April 1999. Leased Line mini-HOWTO, by Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.webster.nl>. How to setup leased line modems. Updated July 1998. Linux+DOS+Win95+OS2 mini-HOWTO, by Mike Harlan <r3mdh@raex.com>. How to use Linux and DOS and OS/2 and Win95 together. Updated 11 November 1997. Linux+FreeBSD mini-HOWTO, by Niels Kristian Bech Jensen <nkbj@image.dk> How to use Linux and FreeBSD together. Updated 15 January 1999. Linux+NT-Loader mini-HOWTO, by Bernd Reichert <reichert@dial.eunet.ch>. How to use Linux and the Windows NT boot loader together. Updated 2 September 1997. Linux+Win95 mini-HOWTO, by Jonathan Katz <jkatz@in.net>. How to use Linux and Windows95 together. Updated 26 October 1996. Loadlin+Win95 mini-HOWTO, by Chris Fischer <protek@brigadoon.com>. How to use Linux and Windows95 together, using loadlin. Updated 13 March 1999. Mac Terminal mini-HOWTO, by Robert Kiesling <kiesling@terracom.net>. How to use an Apple Macintosh as a serial terminal. Updated 9 November 1997. Mail Queue mini-HOWTO, by Leif Erlingsson <leif@lege.com>. How to queue remote mail and deliver local mail. Updated 3 September 1997. Mail2News mini-HOWTO, by Robert Hart <iweft@ipax.com.au>. How to set up a mail to news gateway. Updated 4 November 1996. Man Page mini-HOWTO, by Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@noc.dfn.de>. How to write man pages. Updated July 1998. Modules mini-HOWTO, by Riley H. Williams <rhw@bigfoot.com>. How to setup and configure kernel modules. Updated 14 November 1997. Multiboot using LILO mini-HOWTO, by Renzo Zanelli <rzanelli@southeast.net>. Howto multiboot between Windows 95, Windows NT, and Linux. Updated 26 March 1998. NCD X Terminal mini-HOWTO, by Ian Hodge <ihodge@nortel.ca>. Describes how to connect an NCD X terminal to a UNIX host. Updated 3 April 1998. NFS-Root mini-HOWTO, by Andreas Kostyrka <andreas@ag.or.at>. How to set up diskless Linux machines. Updated 8 August 1997. NFS-Root-Client mini-HOWTO, by Ofer Maor <ofer@hadar.co.il>. How to set up diskless Linux machines using NFS. Updated 02 February 1999. Netrom-Node mini-HOWTO, by Karl Larsen <k5di@yahoo.com>. How to setup the ax25-utilities package for Amateur Radio such making Netrom Nodes. Updated 19 October 1998. Netscape+Proxy mini-HOWTO, by Sarma Seetamraju <sarma@usa.net>. How to set up a proxy server for Netscape. Updated 15 August 1997. Netstation mini-HOWTO, by Kris Buytaert <Kris.Buytaert@advalvas.be>. How to hook up a IBM Netstation to your local network using a Linux box as server. Updated 22 February 1998. News Leafsite mini-HOWTO, by Florian Kuehnert <sutok@gmx.de>. How to set up a leaf news site. Updated 4 January 1998. Offline Mailing mini-HOWTO, by Gunther Voet <freaker@tuc.ml.org>. How to set up email addresses without a dedicated Internet connection. Updated 4 June 1998. PLIP mini-HOWTO, by Andrea Controzzi <controzz@cli.di.unipi.it>. How to set up PLIP (Parallel Line Interface Protocol). Updated 12 March 1998. Partition mini-HOWTO, by Kristian Koehntopp <kris@koehntopp.de>. How to choose disk partitions. Updated 3 November 1997. Partition Rescue mini-HOWTO, by Rolf Klausen <rolfk@romsdal.vgs.no>. How to rescue deleted Linux partitions. Updated 22 October 1997. Path mini-HOWTO, by Esa Turtiainen <etu@dna.fi>. How to use the PATH environment variable. Updated 15 November 1997. Pre-installation Checklist mini-HOWTO, by S. Parthasarathy <algolog@hd1.vsnl.net.in>. Pre-installation checklist and questionnaire. Updated 29 August 1998. Process Accounting mini-HOWTO, by Albert M.C. Tam <bertie@scn.org>. How to set up process accounting. Updated 8 August 1997. Proxy ARP Subnet mini-HOWTO, by Bob Edwards <bob@faceng.anu.edu.au>. How to use proxy ARP with subnetting. Updated August 1997. Public Web Browser mini-HOWTO, by Donald B. Marti Jr. <dmarti@best.com>. How to set up a guest account to use a WWW browser. Updated 5 January 1998. Qmail+MH mini-HOWTO, by Christopher Richardson <rdn@tara.n.eunet.de>. How to install qmail and MH. Updated 5 March 1998. Quota mini-HOWTO, by Albert M.C. Tam <bertie@scn.org>. How to set up disk quotas. Updated 8 August 1997. RCS mini-HOWTO, by Robert Kiesling <kiesling@terracom.net>. How to use RCS (Revision Control System). Updated 14 August 1997. RPM+Slackware mini-HOWTO, by Dave Whitinger <dave@whitinger.net>. How to install the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) under Slackware. Updated 13 April 1998. RedHat CD mini-HOWTO, by Morten Kjeldgaard <mok@imsb.au.dk> Peter von der Ahé <pahe+rhcd@daimi.au.dk>. How to make your own CDs from the Red Hat Linux distribution equivalent to the ones commercially available from Red Hat. Updated 9 September 1998. Remote Boot mini-HOWTO, by Marc Vuilleumier Stückelberg <Marc.VuilleumierStuckelberg@cui.unige.ch>. How to set up a server-based boot selector. Updated February 1999. Remote X Apps mini-HOWTO, by Vincent Zweije <zweije@xs4all.nl>. How to run remote X applications. Updated 14 July 1998. SLIP-PPP Emulator mini-HOWTO, by Irish <irish@eskimo.com>. How to use SLIP-PPP emulators with Linux. Updated 7 August 1997. Sendmail Address Rewrite mini-HOWTO, by Thomas Roessler <roessler@guug.de>. Set up sendmail's configuration file for the home user's dial-up access. Updated 6 May 1998. Sendmail+UUCP mini-HOWTO, by Jamal Hadi Salim <jamal@glcom.com>. How to use sendmail and UUCP together. Updated August 1998. Secure POP via SSH mini-HOWTO, by Manish Singh <yosh@gimp.org>. How to set up secure POP connections using ssh. Updated 30 September 1998. Small Memory mini-HOWTO, by Todd Burgess <tburgess@uoguelph.ca>. How to run Linux on a system with a small amount of memory. Update 29 October 1997. Software RAID mini-HOWTO, by Linas Vepstas <linas@fc.net>. How to configure software RAID. Updated 21 November 1998. Soundblaster AWE mini-HOWTO, by Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>. How to install the Soundblaster AWE 32/64. Updated 11 January 1998. StarOffice mini-HOWTO, by Matthew Borowski <mkb@poboxes.com>. Information on installing the StarOffice suite. Updated 2 June 1998. Term Firewall mini-HOWTO, by Barak Pearlmutter <bap@cs.unm.edu>. How to use 'term' over a firewall. Updated 15 July 1997. TkRat mini-HOWTO, by Dave Whitinger <dave@whitinger.net>. How to install and use the TkRat mail program. Updated 2 February 1998. Token Ring mini-HOWTO, by Mike Eckhoff <mike.e@emissary.aus-etc.com>. How to use token ring cards. Updated 7 January 1998. Ultra-DMA mini-HOWTO, by Brion Vibber <brion@pobox.com>. How to use Ultra-DMA drives and controllers. Updated 27 May 1999. Update mini-HOWTO, by Stein Gjoen <sgjoen@nyx.net>. How to stay updated about Linux development. Updated 3 February 1998. Upgrade mini-HOWTO, by Greg Louis <glouis@dynamicro.on.ca>. How to upgrade your Linux distribution. Updated 6 June 1996. VAIO mini-HOWTO, by Hideki Saito <hideki@chatlink.com>. This document explains installation of Linux on Sony VAIO computers. Updated 16 September 1998. Vesafb mini-HOWTO, by Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk>. How to use the vesafb device. Updated 2 August 1998. VPN mini-HOWTO, by Árpád Magosányi <mag@bunuel.tii.matav.hu>. How to set up a VPN (Virtual Private Network). Updated 7 August 1997. Visual Bell mini-HOWTO, by Alessandro Rubini <rubini@linux.it>. How to disable audible bells, and enable visual bells. Updated 11 November 1997. Windows Modem Sharing mini-HOWTO, by Friedemann Baitinger <baiti@toplink.net>. How to setup Windows to use a shared modem on a Linux machine. Updated 2 November 1997. WordPerfect mini-HOWTO, by Wade Hampton <whampton@staffnet.com>. How to set up WordPerfect for Linux. Updated 13 August 1997. X Big Cursor mini-HOWTO, by Joerg Schneider <schneid@ira.uka.de>. How to use enlarged cursors with XWindows. Updated 11 August 1997. XFree86-XInside mini-HOWTO, by Marco Melgazzi <marco@techie.com>. How to convert XFree86 to XInside modelines. Updated September 1997. xterm Title mini-HOWTO, by Ric Lister <ric@giccs.georgetown.edu>. How to put strings into the titlebar of an xterm. Updated 7 January 1998. ZIP Install mini-HOWTO, by John Wiggins <jwiggins@comp.uark.edu>. How to install Linux onto a ZIP drive. Updated 10 January 1999. ZIP Drive mini-HOWTO, by Kyle Dansie <dansie@ibm.net>. Provides a quick reference quide on setting up and using the Iomega ZIP drive with Linux. Updated 10 January 1999.

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