README for ./quoted/. directory These files are quoted "with kind permission of" their authors, as illustration of the docs that are available for Linux, particularly those needed to install Linux, to get at the proper ones! You shoud of course refer to the original sources for the latest versions. ide-cd: /usr/src/linux/documentation/cdrom There are docs about other cdrom types, but EIDE is the most common. ide.txt: /usr/src/linux/documentation/ Configuring the (E)IDE controllers for upto 8 drives, etc Problems with buggy RX1000 and CMD-640 chipsets Configure.help: /usr/src/linux/Documentation This is the online-help file for the kernel configure utility. It lists lots of devices and options you may set when configuring a kernel (2.0.30) I.E a quick grep for your devices keywords might get results! NB many paragraphs are a bit older than the code, several things are labelled as "NEW", when really they have been quite stable for a long time. README-isapnp.gz: /usr/doc/isapnptools/README.gz You need to locate the rest of the package, but this README indicates what isapnp is about, and links to web sites. (peeking identifying and poking IO ports to make PNP work and then getting the kernel adjusted AFTER they've been set)