Welcome to the Official sidux-manual - General Distribution Version
On 24th of November 2006 sidux was formed by a group of people who will strive to do the impossible: making Debian Sid (aka "Unstable") stable. The goal is to become the best Debian Sid based live distro with special focus on clean and easy hard disk install
Strategic milestones and 3-4 annual releases timetabled will give stability and accountability to corporate and home users with a demand for bleeding edge software running on modern hardware, as well as a definable path over time.
All content is © 2006 by the sidux Foundation, Inc. and released under GNU/FDL.
How to use this manual
This manual is divided into common sections, for example, a subject pertaining to partitioning is found in Partitioning your Hard Drive, and topics regarding the Internet/WIFI are grouped in Internet and Networking. There are some topics that cannot be grouped or require stand-alone status.
As with any new documentation there will be errors/mistakes/typos, although we hope otherwise regarding errors and mistakes (typos we can live with ) please forgive us.
As the body of work grows, more documentation will be added and we at sidux are sure that this will prove to be a very valuable resource for you and we thank you for being a part of sidux.
Index
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Welcome to sidux
CD Contents
CD Downloading and Burning
- CD Downloading and Burning
- md5 Checksum
- Burning in Windows
- Burning in Linux
- xdelta Patching
- Burning without a GUI
Live Mode
- Root-password on the sidux-LiveCD?
- Unionfs - Install software in live mode
- Writing on NTFS-partitions with ntfs-3g
CheatCodes
Internet and Networking
- Getting online-Configuring the Network
- 56k Modems
- Activating Ndiswrapper
- WIFI-WLAN
- Internet Sharing
- Configuring SAMBA (Windows)
- Setting up Samba-Server
- SSH Remote Mounting
- X Window Apps via SSH
- GUI SSH with Konqueror
- SSH X-Forwarding from Windows-PC
- SSH and Security
- Timeserver Setup
Partitioning Your Hard Drive
- Partioning your HD using GParted
- NTFS partition Resizing using GParted
- UUID, Partition Labelling and fstab
- Partitioning your HD using cfdisk
- Formatting after partitioning with cfdisk
- Partition Size Examples
Installation options
- Install Preparation
- Installing to your HD
- First Boot Up
- Persistent Home
- Booting 'fromiso'
- Installing on a USB-HD
- Installing by QEMU
The Terminal/Konsole
Graphic Cards, Hardware Devices and Drivers
Window Managers
System Administration
- APT-Guide Cookbook
- Installing a new package
- Deleting a package
- Upgrade of an Installed System
- Upgrading using your Live-CD
- Uprading the kernel
- Backing Up with rdiff
- Backing Up with rsync
- Enabling services in sidux
- Lost root passwords
- Screen Resolutions
- Virus and Rootkit Scanners
- MBR Overwritten bootsector
- Creating a Boot-Floppy
- Removing grub from MBR
- Grub the bootmanager

