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<appendix id="administrivia">
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<title>Administrivia</title>
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<sect1 id="about">
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<title>About This Document</title>
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<para>
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This document is written in DocBook XML. Output formats are generated
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by various programs using information from the
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<classname>docbook-xml</classname> and
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<classname>docbook-xsl</classname> packages.
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</para><para>
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In order to increase the maintainability of this document, we use
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a number of XML features, such as entities and profiling attributes.
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These play a role akin to variables and conditionals in programming
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languages. The XML source to this document contains information for
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each different architecture — profiling attributes are used to
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isolate certain bits of text as architecture-specific.
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</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="contributing">
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<title>Contributing to This Document</title>
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<para>
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If you have problems or suggestions regarding this document, you
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should probably submit them as a bug report against the package
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<classname>debian-installer-manual</classname>. See the
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<classname>reportbug</classname> package or read the online
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documentation of the <ulink url="&url-bts;">Debian Bug
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Tracking System</ulink>. It would be nice if you could check the
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<ulink url="&url-bts;debian-installer-manual">open bugs against
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debian-installer-manual</ulink> to see whether your problem has
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already been reported. If so, you can supply additional corroboration
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or helpful information to
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<email><replaceable>XXXX</replaceable>@bugs.debian.org</email>,
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where <replaceable>XXXX</replaceable> is the number for the
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already-reported bug.
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</para><para>
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Better yet, get a copy of the DocBook source for this document, and
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produce patches against it. The DocBook source can be found at the
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<ulink url="&url-d-i-cvsweb;">debian-installer CVSWeb</ulink>. If
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you're not familiar with DocBook, don't worry:
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there is a simple cheatsheet in the manuals directory that will get
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you started. It's like html, but oriented towards the meaning of
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the text rather than the presentation. Patches submitted to the
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debian-boot mailing list (see below) are welcomed.
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For instructions on how to check out the sources via CVS, see
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<ulink url="&url-d-i-readme;">README</ulink>
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from the source root directory.
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</para><para>
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Please do <emphasis>not</emphasis> contact the authors of this
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document directly. There is also a discussion list for &d-i;, which
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includes discussions of this manual. The mailing list is
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<email>debian-boot@lists.debian.org</email>. Instructions for
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subscribing to this list can be found at the <ulink
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url="&url-debian-lists-subscribe;">Debian Mailing
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List Subscription</ulink> page; or you can browse the <ulink
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url="&url-debian-list-archives;">Debian Mailing List Archives</ulink>
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online.
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</para>
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</sect1>
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&contributors.xml;
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<sect1 id="contributors">
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<title>Major Contributions</title>
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<para>
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This document was originally written by Bruce Perens, Sven Rudolph, Igor
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Grobman, James Treacy, and Adam Di Carlo. Sebastian Ley wrote the
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Installation Howto.
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Many, many Debian users and developers contributed to this document.
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Particular note must be made for Michael Schmitz (m68k support), Frank
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Neumann (original author of the <ulink
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url="&url-m68k-old-amiga-install;">Amiga install manual</ulink>),
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Arto Astala, Eric Delaunay/Ben Collins (SPARC information), Tapio
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Lehtonen, and Stéphane Bortzmeyer for numerous edits and text.
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We have to thank Pascal Le Bail for useful information about booting
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from USB memory sticks.
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</para><para>
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Extremely helpful text and information was found in Jim Mintha's HOWTO
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for network booting (no URL available), the <ulink
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url="&url-debian-faq;">Debian FAQ</ulink>, the <ulink
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url="&url-m68k-faq;">Linux/m68k FAQ</ulink>, the <ulink
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url="&url-sparc-linux-faq;">Linux for SPARC Processors
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FAQ</ulink>, the <ulink
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url="&url-alpha-faq;">Linux/Alpha
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FAQ</ulink>, amongst others. The maintainers of these freely
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available and rich sources of information must be recognized.
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</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="trademarks">
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<title>Trademark Acknowledgement</title>
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<para>
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All trademarks are property of their respective trademark owners.
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</para>
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</sect1>
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</appendix>
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