How To Guide Introduction

How To Guide

This guide describes various tasks which may be required during ST Linux development, but do not form part of the standard build process covered in the previous books. The topics included are:

• How to configure the distribution,

• How to set up an NFS file server,

• How to boot with a ramdisk root file system,

• How to boot from ROM,

• How to run Quake,

• How to use DHCP,

• How to install and use Linux support packages (LSP),

• How to configure Point to Point Protocol (PPP),

• How to setup and configure a Universal Serial Bus (USB),

• How to configure a hard disk,

• How to use the remote shell (rsh),

• How to use the U-Boot boot loader.