From: Brendan S. <bms...@us...> - 2005-09-29 12:12:07
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Update of /cvsroot/morphix/how_tos In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv14352 Modified Files: morphix_docbook.xml Log Message: Typos, apt-cache, etc - not at work have a cold Index: morphix_docbook.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/morphix/how_tos/morphix_docbook.xml,v retrieving revision 1.10 retrieving revision 1.11 diff -C2 -d -r1.10 -r1.11 *** morphix_docbook.xml 26 Sep 2005 22:32:56 -0000 1.10 --- morphix_docbook.xml 29 Sep 2005 12:11:53 -0000 1.11 *************** *** 5,9 **** <articleinfo> <title>Morphix Manual</title> ! <date>2005/09/25</date> <author> <firstname>Brendan</firstname> --- 5,9 ---- <articleinfo> <title>Morphix Manual</title> ! <date>September 2005</date> <author> <firstname>Brendan</firstname> *************** *** 13,22 **** <authorinitials>BMS</authorinitials> ! <revhistory><revision><revnumber>1.9</revnumber><date>2005/09/25</date><authorinitials>BMS</authorinitials></revision></revhistory> </articleinfo> <section> <title>Dedication</title> ! <simpara>To our benevolent dictator Alextreme, debian and everyone at #morphix</simpara> </section> --- 13,22 ---- <authorinitials>BMS</authorinitials> ! <revhistory><revision><revnumber>0.1</revnumber><date>September 2005</date><authorinitials>BMS</authorinitials></revision></revhistory> </articleinfo> <section> <title>Dedication</title> ! <simpara>To our benevolent dictator Alextreme, Debian and everyone at #morphix</simpara> </section> *************** *** 400,404 **** </indexterm></simpara> ! <section> <title>About Morphix</title> <section> --- 400,426 ---- </indexterm></simpara> ! <itemizedlist> ! <listitem> ! <simpara> ! <link linkend="AboutMorphix">About Morphix</link> ! </simpara> ! </listitem> ! <listitem> ! <simpara> ! <link linkend="BootingMorphix">Booting Morphix</link> ! </simpara> ! </listitem> ! <listitem> ! <simpara> ! <link linkend="UsingMorphix">Using Morphix</link> ! </simpara> ! </listitem> ! <listitem> ! <simpara> ! <link linkend="InstallingMorphix">Installing Morphix</link> ! </simpara> ! </listitem> ! </itemizedlist> ! <section id="AboutMorphix"> <title>About Morphix</title> <section> *************** *** 551,555 **** </section> </section> ! <section> <title>Booting Morphix</title> <section> --- 573,577 ---- </section> </section> ! <section id="BootingMorphix"> <title>Booting Morphix</title> <section> *************** *** 584,588 **** <section> <title>Blank Screen At End of Boot Process</title> ! <simpara>Graphic cards are the most problematic to auto-detect. Also to nvidia drivers are not used automatically as only proprietary drivers are avialable from nvidia.com.</simpara> <simpara>Below are the some most popular boot options used.</simpara> --- 606,610 ---- <section> <title>Blank Screen At End of Boot Process</title> ! <simpara>Graphic cards are the most problematic to auto-detect. Also to nvidia drivers are not used automatically as only proprietary drivers are available from nvidia.com.</simpara> <simpara>Below are the some most popular boot options used.</simpara> *************** *** 613,621 **** <simpara>Try different boot options. - http://www.morphix.org/wiki/index.php/MorphixBootOptions</simpara> ! <simpara>A dasebase for boot options that other people have used to get hardware working is in the wiki, http://www.morphix.org/wiki/index.php/MorphixHardwareVsBootOptionsRequired</simpara> </section> </section> ! <section> <title>Using Morphix</title> <section> --- 635,643 ---- <simpara>Try different boot options. - http://www.morphix.org/wiki/index.php/MorphixBootOptions</simpara> ! <simpara>A database for boot options that other people have used to get hardware working is in the wiki, http://www.morphix.org/wiki/index.php/MorphixHardwareVsBootOptionsRequired</simpara> </section> </section> ! <section id="UsingMorphix"> <title>Using Morphix</title> <section> *************** *** 666,695 **** </section> </section> ! <section> <title>Installing Morphix</title> ! <section> <title>Getting Apt-Get Working - Post Install</title> ! <simpara>Apt - is an advanced package management tool. With out repeating what already available on the web, a breif red of on of these websites should help ! http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=apt+primer ! http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=introduction+to+apt</simpara> ! <simpara>The Morphix liveCD are normally built on a computer with access to a local Debian repository, most <emphasis>normal</emphasis> users will not have a local repository, so we need to change the apt source to look at the central Debian repository.</simpara> ! <simpara>Open up a terminal windows and become super-user (root) ! su ! Run <emphasis>nano</emphasis> a text editor ! nano /etc/apt/sources.list</simpara> ! <simpara>Before the line beginning; (something like) ! deb ftp://127.0.0.1/debian sid main ! Add a # ! #deb ftp://127.0.0.1/debian sid main ! Then add ! deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main ! Then type (<emphasis>Ctrl-X</emphasis>) to exit and save from nano.</simpara> ! <simpara>Finally do the following command ! apt-get update</simpara> </section> <section> --- 688,752 ---- </section> </section> ! <section id="InstallingMorphix"> <title>Installing Morphix</title> ! <section id="InstallApt"> <title>Getting Apt-Get Working - Post Install</title> ! <simpara>Apt - is an advanced package management tool. With out repeating what already available on the web, a brief read of on of these websites should help</simpara> ! <literallayout class="monospaced">http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=apt+primer ! http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=introduction+to+apt</literallayout> ! <simpara>The Morphix liveCD are normally built on a computer with access to a local Debian repository, most <emphasis>normal</emphasis> users will not have a local repository, so we need to change the source list for apt to look at the central Debian repository.</simpara> ! <simpara>Open up a terminal windows and become super-user (root)</simpara> ! <literallayout class="monospaced">su</literallayout> ! <simpara>Run <emphasis>nano</emphasis> a text editor</simpara> ! <literallayout class="monospaced">nano /etc/apt/sources.list</literallayout> ! <simpara>Before the line beginning; (something like)</simpara> ! ! <literallayout class="monospaced">deb ftp://127.0.0.1/debian sid main</literallayout> ! <simpara>Add a #</simpara> ! ! <literallayout class="monospaced">#deb ftp://127.0.0.1/debian sid main</literallayout> ! <simpara>Then add</simpara> ! ! <literallayout class="monospaced">deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main</literallayout> ! <simpara>Then type (<emphasis>Ctrl-X</emphasis>) to exit and save from nano. Finally do the following command</simpara> + <literallayout class="monospaced">apt-get update</literallayout> + <simpara>Further details:</simpara> + + <literallayout class="monospaced">http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html</literallayout> + </section> + <section> + <title>Getting Other Packages (Applications) - Post Install</title> + <simpara>First correct read and action the <link linkend="InstallApt">Getting Apt-Get Working - Post Install</link>.</simpara> + + <simpara>In this example we will the morphix-manual. Most packages and applications are available the debian central repository. so we can skip to <link linkend="AptCacheUpdate">apt-cache update</link>, but the morphix manual require is found in the Morphix Repository</simpara> + + <simpara>Become root, confirm that your sources contains the morphix repository.</simpara> + + <literallayout class="monospaced">su + nano /etc/apt/sources.list</literallayout> + <simpara>The file should contain the following line</simpara> + + <literallayout class="monospaced">deb http://www.morphix.org/debian ./</literallayout> + <simpara>Then type (<emphasis>Ctrl-X</emphasis>) to exit and save from nano.</simpara> + + <simpara id="AptCacheUpdate">To search for a package, become super-user, update your cache, then search the cache (in this example search for the morphix-manual package).</simpara> + + <literallayout class="monospaced">su + apt-get update + apt-cache search morphix-manual</literallayout> + <simpara>This return a list of packages matching the search term, in the example morphix-manual</simpara> + + <literallayout class="monospaced">morphix-manual - Morphix Manual</literallayout> + <simpara>To install, use the apt-get with the name in the left hand column</simpara> + + <literallayout class="monospaced">apt-get install morphix-manual</literallayout> + <simpara>The Morphix-manual, this document is now available locally. Using a browser go to</simpara> + + <literallayout class="monospaced">file:///usr/share/doc/morphix-manual/html/index.html</literallayout> </section> <section> *************** *** 700,713 **** <simpara>I have Morphix running on the following machines, with the following ! installs ! . Morphix Gnome ! <emphasis role="strong"> Pentium III 500 MHz - 256M Ram - Runs ok. ! </emphasis> Pentium 4 2.4GHz - 1 G Ram - Runs fast ! . Morphix Light ! <emphasis role="strong"> VIA Eden 600 MHz - 512M Ram - Runs fast. ! </emphasis> Pentium 1 75MHz - 70M Ram - Runs a little slow ! . Morphix Derivative, Photo-ix, LiveKiosk, hacked for low memory ! * Pentium 1 75MHz - 16M Ram - Runs slow</simpara> <simpara>Other FAQs to follow.</simpara> --- 757,810 ---- <simpara>I have Morphix running on the following machines, with the following ! installs</simpara> + <orderedlist> + <listitem> + <simpara> + Morphix Gnome + </simpara> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <simpara> + Pentium III 500 MHz - 256M Ram - Runs ok. + </simpara> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <simpara> + Pentium 4 2.4GHz - 1 G Ram - Runs fast + </simpara> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <simpara> + Morphix Light + </simpara> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <simpara> + VIA Eden 600 MHz - 512M Ram - Runs fast. + </simpara> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <simpara> + Pentium 1 75MHz - 70M Ram - Runs a little slow + </simpara> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <simpara> + Morphix Derivative, Photo-ix, LiveKiosk, hacked for low memory + </simpara> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <simpara> + Pentium 1 75MHz - 16M Ram - Runs slow + </simpara> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + </orderedlist> <simpara>Other FAQs to follow.</simpara> *************** *** 717,721 **** <section> <title>Appendix Transition</title> ! <simpara>This second documents the transitional changes version to version of Morphix, espically bases.</simpara> <simpara>It reflects the README.transition on the CDROM.</simpara> --- 814,818 ---- <section> <title>Appendix Transition</title> ! <simpara>This second documents the transitional changes version to version of Morphix, especially bases.</simpara> <simpara>It reflects the README.transition on the CDROM.</simpara> *************** *** 810,813 **** --- 907,914 ---- <simpara>The <emphasis>source</emphasis> file to generate this manual in in the morphix cvs <emphasis>/how_tos/morphix_docbook.txt</emphasis></simpara> + <simpara>This document cvs reference is :</simpara> + + <simpara>$Id$</simpara> + <simpara>Feel free to edit it, post patches or diffs. The following commands are used to generate the xml then the html:</simpara> |