Department of Mathematics, Statistics
and Computer Science
Wim Ruitenburg's MSCS 206 linux learning 971115
- We have warrior in the room running linux. We will install linux
on the other machine in front of the class. This other machine is hooked up
with a signal splitter duplicating the monitor image on the big screen. This
target machine has an IDE hard disk (in fact, it has two; we use only one). It
is hooked up to our local net with an ethernet card. From the warrior public
ftp/web site we see that we need boot disk net.i. As root disk we take
the usual color.gz. We use the floppy drive of warrior to put the
images on two floppies. Reboot the target machine with the boot disk in the
drive.
- Run fdisk to repartition the IDE hard drive /dev/hda.
We set one `small' partition aside as swap space. We could have repartitioned
the second hard drive by typing fdisk /dev/hdb, but we decided to leave
that one alone.
- Run setup. We install over the net (the NFS source
option). Our target is /dev/hda1. We install the whole slackware release
from warrior and select as kernel the one from the floppy boot disk.
We enable the mouse (a mouse systems mouse in com port 1, which is
/dev/cua0 in linux). We also install the network software, and make the
machine into guest onto our local network mscs.mu.edu (with
approval of network management).
- Reboot. The system works. We quickly set root password.
- We try to install X windows using XF86Setup. Something went
wrong because we pressed `Okay' once too often, once too quickly. Retrying
XF86Setup didn't work. We probably have to chop everything out that the
first attempt installed before we try again.
Last updated: November 1998
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