HOWTOs?

Kenneth Porter shiva at sewingwitch.com
Thu Jul 8 12:15:30 UTC 2004


--On Thursday, July 08, 2004 2:05 AM -0500 Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> 
wrote:

> Older versions of Redhat used to contain many of the available HOWTO
> documents in /usr/doc/HOWTO. Fedora Core 2 doesn't seem to provide these
> files anywhere. Can anyone tell me the reason for this (or where I might
> find the documentation installed if I missed it)? While these files are
> available on the net, it is nice to have a local copy in the case of
> problems and I want to save myself having to download (some of) them over
> a slow connection.

It's been awhile since I used the local copy (broadband tends to do that) 
but I do recall using those files when I started out back with RH5.1. 
/usr/doc became /usr/share/doc to comply with FHS, but the HOWTO directory 
didn't follow.

Meanwhile, you can find a lot of that stuff here:

http://tldp.org/






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