In addition to their books, the Linux Documentation Project has made
a series of short documents describing how to set up particular
aspects of GNU/Linux. For instance, the SCSI-HOWTO describes some of
the complications of using SCSI—a standard way of talking to
devices—with GNU/Linux. In general, the HOWTOs have more specific
information about particular hardware configurations and will be
more up to date than this manual.
There are Debian packages for the HOWTOs. doc-linux-text contains
the various HOWTOs in text form; the doc-linux-html package contains
the HOWTOs in (surprise!) browsable HTML format. Note also that
Debian has packaged translations of the HOWTOs in various languages
that you may prefer if English is not your native language. Debian
has packages for the German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese,
Korean, Polish, Swedish and Chinese versions of the HOWTOs. These
are usually available in the package doc-linux-_languagecode_, where
_languagecode_ is fr for French, es for Spanish, etc. If you’ve
installed one of these, you should have them in
/usr/doc/HOWTO. However, you may be able to find more recent
/versions on
the Net at the LDP homepage[4].
[4] http://www.metalab.unc.edu/LDP/