Required Background - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 - ARCHITECTURE-SPECIFIC INFORMATION Supplementary Manual

2 Required Background

Several assumptions have been made concerning your background knowledge when
writing this document.
• You are familiar with IBM System z terminology.
• You have a good knowledge of the IBM System z devices attached to your system,
especially its network environment.
• You have a basic understanding of handling a Linux or Unix system.
3 Documentation Conventions
The following typographical conventions are used in this manual:
• /etc/passwd: filenames and directory names
• placeholder: replace placeholder with the actual value
• PATH: the environment variable PATH
• ls, --help: commands, options, and parameters
• user: users or groups
• Alt , Alt + F1 : a key to press or a key combination; keys are shown in uppercase as
on a keyboard
• File, File > Save As: menu items, buttons
• This paragraph is only relevant for the specified architectures. The arrows mark
the beginning and the end of the text block.
• Dancing Penguins (Chapter Penguins, ↑Another Manual): This is a reference to a
chapter in another manual.
vi Architecture-Specific Information