Installation guide

button on a GUI screen or window

This style indicates that the text can be found on a clickable button on a GUI screen. For ex-

ample:

Click on the Back button to return to the webpage you last viewed.

computer output

Text in this style indicates text displayed to a shell prompt such as error messages and re-

sponses to commands. For example:

The ls command displays the contents of a directory. For example:

Desktop about.html logs paulwesterberg.png Mail backupfiles mail reports

The output returned in response to the command (in this case, the contents of the directory)

is shown in this style.

prompt

A prompt, which is a computer's way of signifying that it is ready for you to input something,

is shown in this style. Examples:

[stephen@maturin stephen]$

leopard login:

user input

Text that the user types, either on the command line or into a text box on a GUI screen, is

displayed in this style. In the following example, text is displayed in this style:

To boot your system into the text based installation program, you must type in the text com-

mand at the boot: prompt.

Text used in examples that is meant to be replaced with data provided by the user is dis-

played in this style. In the following example, <version-number> is displayed in this style:

The directory for the kernel source is /usr/src/kernels/<version-number>/, where

<version-number> is the version and type of kernel installed on this system.

Additionally, we use several different strategies to draw your attention to certain pieces of in-

formation. In order of urgency, these items are marked as a note, tip, important, caution, or

warning. For example:

Note

Remember that Linux is case sensitive. In other words, a rose is not a ROSE is not

a rOsE.

2. Document Conventions

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