T21 Laptop Install Notes (May 18, 2004) ======================================== I had already partitioned off 4 GB of my hard drive for a future Linux install. 1) Boot the first CD 2) Go through the language selections. 3) Take the default "3 Button Mouse (PS/2) offered to me. 4) Let Disk Druid "Automatically partition" the drive. I'll adjust it later. A) Carefully select "Remove all Linux partitions on this system" so that it'll preserve my Windows 2000 system. B) Answer "Yes" to the "Are you sure" prompt. It defaulted to /dev/hda /dev/hda1 / vfat 15076 1 2042 My Windows 2000 System /dev/hda2 /boot ext3 103 2043 2056 /dev/hda3 / ext3 3389 2057 2515 /dev/hda4 Extended 509 2516 2584 /dev/hda5 swap 509 2516 2584 Paging 5) Make the appropriate changes (specified=actual sizes). A) Resize the hda2 (/boot) partition from 100=103 MB to 80=81 MB. B) Delete the hda5 (swap) partition so I can resize it. C) "New" the hda5 (swap) partition back in, making the "File System Type:" be "swap", selecting the "Fill all space up to (MB):", making it 256=251 MB, D) "New" the AFS cache partion, making the "Mount Point:" = "/usr/vice/cache" and the size fixed to 300=303 MB. E) Which automatically made the hda3 (/) partition resize to 3367MB. The final configuration is /dev/hda /dev/hda1 / vfat 15076 1 2042 My Windows 2000 System /dev/hda2 /boot ext3 81 2043 2053 /dev/hda3 / ext3 3367 2054 2509 /dev/hda4 Extended 554 2510 2584 /dev/hda5 ext3 303 2510 2550 AFS Cache /dev/hda6 swap 251 2551 2584 Paging 6) Took all the default "Boot Loader Configuration" settings. 7) On the "Network Configuration" screen, I A) Select the "manually" button for the "Set the hostname:" option. B) Specified "rajlinux" for the hostname, C) but kept the DHCP selection so it would work from home or work. 8) Disabled the firewall on the next screen, 9) Again, accepted english for the language, 10) Selected "America/Los_Angeles" to get "Pacific Time" 11) Set the root password to global, 12) Selected "Customize the set of packages to be installed", adding MB Package Group Notes === =================== ============================================= 3 Editors Gaining vim, but unselecting Emacs (51 MB) 261 Office/Productivity Gaining openoffice & xpdf 5 Sound and Video Gaining cdrecord & dvdrecord, not that I have a CD writer on my laptop 49 Graphics Gaining ImageMagick & gimp, but unselecting netpbm-progs (4 MB), sane-frontends (6 MB), xfig (9 MB), xsane (5 MB), & xsane-gime (6 MB) 19 Games 0 DNS Name Server 1 FTP Server 9 Network Servers Gaining ypserver (the NIS server) and selecting openldap-servers (8 MB), but unselecting DHCP (1 MB) and netdump-server (0 MB). 0 Legacy Network Server Unselecting rusers & rwho (both 0 MB) and selecting telnet-server. 197 Kernel Development 28 System Tools To get ethereal, nmap, openldap-clients, and also selecting cipe since it talked about it providing an encrypted IP tunnel (0 MB), sysstat to get the sar & iostat commands (0 MB), tsclient to get the VNC and "Window Terminal Server" client programs (1 MB), uucp (11 MB), and vnc (0 MB), but unselecting samba-client (0 MB). Adding 572 MB, for a final kernel size of 2,308 MB. Started with disk 1 at 6:06 PM. Asked for disk 2 at 6:08 after 2 minutes Asked for disk 3 at 6:30 after 22 minutes Asked for disk 4 at 6:40 after 10 minutes Asked for disk 1 at 6:46 after 6 minutes Rebooted at 6:48 12.5?) I forgot to reconfigure the monitor and I forgot exactly where this was in the install process. If you accept their "Unprobed Monitor" default, you won't get all the resolution choices you should. The easiest way is to select an IBM 2236 from their selection menu 'cause it's the closest to what you have, and change the "Vertical Sync" from "50.0-120.0" to "50.0-90.0". If this still comes up not configured as you like, check out the "Modes" line in /etc/X11/XF86Config. You can put "1280x1024" first before any of the other resolutions ("800x600" "640x480" etc). 13) In the "Date and Time" window, I checked "Enable Network Time Protocol", using 10.224.88.241 (afs1) as the server. 14) Did not create a non-root user account. 15) Did not register with the Red Hat Network (not yet - I did later). Was finally logging in at 6:52, so the whole install took 46 minutes. The / file system wound up 74% used, 2,359/3,393 MB, and 855 MB free. 16) To get the Windows 2000 partition seen, you can mkdir /w2k mount /dev/hda1 /w2k A "df -T" command shows that Linux figured out this was a FAT file system, so the line in /etc/fstab to add to have this done at boot time, is /dev/hda1 /w2k vfat defaults 0 0 17) To get, capture, and install the latest service, A) I had already "Activated" my license key, so I didn't have to do this again, but the way to do it, is to just launch Mozilla and their default home page, file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html, has an "Activate" button on it that sends you to https://www.redhat.com/now. B) I had to login to my https://rhn.redhat.com id, to associate this system with the proper "channel". The "Base Software Channel" for this machine is "Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v.3 for x86)". C) I could then run up2date (or launch it from the "Main Menu" -> "System Tools" -> "Red Hat Network"). D) After up2date retrieved all the updates, but before installing them, I cd /var/spool/up2date scp -p * /afs/d/software/fixes/RedHat.Enterprise.Linux-3 E) After copying everything over, you can then let up2date install the fixes. Things have to be done in this order 'cause after the rpm updates are installed, they're all erased, leaving only the header (hdr) files.