Howto install metafonts

[Christopher M. Jones]

I have a buch of .mf files in a special dir under my LateX tree that I need 
to "make available" to metafont. The installation instructions I am reading 
say moreover that I need to "make" some fonts, whose names the documentation 
lists.

I have looked through some documentation for metafont, and I browsed the 
fntguide doc, but I don't immediately see an explanation of how to do these 
things. 

Can someone tell me, or direct me to the right documentation?