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>Introduction to DFS</H1
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>      Welcome to Debian From Scratch (DFS).  DFS is really two
      systems: 1) a bootable CD for repairing Linux systems or
      installing Debian; and 2) the program that generates the CDs
      that are used for #1.  Most of this manual focuses on #1.
      A wide variety of DFS CDs can be made using the DFS build
      tools.  This manual will refer to CDs made using the default
      configuration.
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>	You can expect the following from your DFS CD:
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>Bootable CD featuring the GNU Grub
	    bootloader.  Can be used to boot hard disk partitions even
	    if no hard disk bootloader is present.</P
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>Kernel and userland support for all major
	    filesystems, including ext2, ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS,
	    FAT, VFAT, NTFS, ISO9660, CramFS, tmpfs, and more.  Userland support for Reiser4.
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>Kernel and userland support for different disk
	    layout schemes including standard partitioning, Logical
	    Volume Manager 2 (LVM2), software RAID, etc.
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>Full recovery tools runnable directly from CD,
	    including:
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>Filesystem utilities for all major filesystems, including undeletion tools for ext2</P
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>Partition editors (fdisk, cfdisk, parted)</P
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>Text editors (nano, joe, vim, emacs)</P
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>C, Perl, Python, and OCaml development
		environments.  Enough to configure and compile a new
		kernel and build basic .debs.  Kernel 2.6.6 sources
                included on CD.</P
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>Full networking support, including PPP and
		various Ethernet cards and DHCP</P
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>Network tools including FTP clients, Web
		client, ssh, telnet, NFS, smbclient, tcpdump, netcat, etc.
	      </P
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>Backup restoration tools such as
		rdiff-backup, dump/restore, tar, cpio, amanda client,
		afbackup client, etc.</P
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>CD and DVD burning tools</P
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>Basic printing tools (cat for local
                printers, rlpr for remote ones, and netcat for
                Jetdirect, plus unix2dos for text files and
                Ghostscript for emergency conversions)
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>Mail reader (mutt)</P
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>Base systems for multiple versions of Debian
	    installable directly from CD, including: sarge, etch, and
	    sid (stable, testing, and unstable).
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>            Hybrid amd64 support: A single i386/amd64 hybrid CD
            provides
            enough to install or fix either an i386 or an
            AMD64 system.  Includes 64-bit kernel with 32-bit
            emulation (to run the 32-bit userland on the CD).   Also
            includes 64-bit packages for bootstrapping a new AMD64
            support.  In short, you can boot a 64-bit kernel and be
            treated as a first-class citizen in almost all respects.
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>            Easy porting to other architectures.  Existing ports to
            Alpha and PowerPC.
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>i386 or x86_64 (amd64) kernels bootable
	    directly from initial boot menu.</P
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>DFS generation scripts support custom kernels,
	    packages, mirrors, compressed ISO images, and a high
	    degree of flexibility.
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