3.1. Conventions used in this document

No special conventions are used here, but you must be warned about the way commands are shown. This howto follows the classic Unix documentation: any command you type to your shell is prefixed by a prompt. It shows " user% " as the prompt for commands that do not require superuser privileges, and " root# " as the prompt for commands that need to run as root. I chose to use " root# " instead of a plain " # " to prevent confusion with snapshots from shell scripts (where the hash mark is used to define comment lines).

When ``Kernel Compile Options'' are shown, they are represented in the format used by menuconfig . They should be understandable even if you (like me) are not used to menuconfig . If you are in doubt about the options' nesting, then running the program once can always help. Was this section helpful? Why not Donate $2.50?