## Appendix E. Administrivia 

## E.1. About This Document 

This manual was created for Sarge’s debian-installer, based on the Woody installation manual for boot-floppies, which was based on earlier Debian installation manuals, and on the Progeny distribution manual which was released under GPL in 2003. It was subsequently modified for use in Ubuntu. 

This document is written in DocBook XML. Output formats are generated by various programs using information from the docbook-xml and docbook-xsl packages. 

In order to increase the maintainability of this document, we use a number of XML features, such as entities and profiling attributes. These play a role akin to variables and conditionals in programming languages. The XML source to this document contains information for each different architecture — profiling attributes are used to isolate certain bits of text as architecture-specific. 

## E.2. Contributing to This Document 

If you have problems or suggestions regarding this document, please mail them to < ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com >. 

Please do not contact the authors of this document directly. There is also a discussion list for debian-installer , which includes discussions of this manual. The mailing list is < debian-boot@lists.debian.org >. Instructions for subscribing to this list can be found at the Debian Mailing List Subscription (http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe) page; or you can browse the Debian Mailing List Archives (http://lists.debian.org/) online. Please do not contact debian-boot about issues specific to Ubuntu. 

## E.3. Major Contributions 

This document was originally written by Bruce Perens, Sven Rudolph, Igor Grobman, James Treacy, and Adam Di Carlo. Sebastian Ley wrote the Installation Howto. 

Miroslav Kuˇre has documented a lot of the new functionality in Sarge’s debian-installer. Frans Pop was the main editor and release manager during the Etch, Lenny and Squeeze releases. 

Many, many Debian users and developers contributed to this document. Particular note must be made of Michael Schmitz (m68k support), Frank Neumann (original author of the Amiga install manual (http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~amigo/debian_inst.html)), Arto Astala, Eric De- launay/Ben Collins (SPARC information), Tapio Lehtonen, and Stéphane Bortzmeyer for numerous edits and text. We have to thank Pascal Le Bail for useful information about booting from USB mem- ory sticks. Colin Watson and others made the modifications for Ubuntu. 

Extremely helpful text and information was found in Jim Mintha’s HOWTO for network booting (no URL available), the Debian FAQ (http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/), the Linux/m68k FAQ (http://www.linux-m68k.org/faq/faq.html), the Linux for SPARC Processors FAQ (http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html), the Linux/Alpha FAQ (http://linux.iol.unh.edu/linux/alpha/faq/), amongst others. The maintainers of these freely available and rich sources of information must be recognized. 

