Did I do this right?Forum: HD Install Topic: Did I do this right? started by: win95 2 dsl Posted by win95 2 dsl on Feb. 20 2007,23:44
Ok I need to know if I did this right:Toshiba tecra laptop. Total Memory 32 mb. Total Harddrive space 2 Gb. Processer 165mhz. Pentium MMX. Ok this is how I installed DSL to the hard drive. I made a 200 MB Linux Swap partition. (hda1) I made a secondary 1700 MB Linux partition. (hda5) Activated swap. (mkswap /dev/hda1....swapon /dev/hda1...ect...ect) Installed grub. It seems to work just fine, everything, I just want to know if that is a typical "hd-install" or if there is a more secure more sofisticated hard drive install. also...I need to know how to access the USB drive and Connect to the Internet. DSL autoconfigures the USB driver and shows it exists but I dont know where to go to access the files on my usb flash drive. The only net hookup I can see is a phone line port. My internet access is wirless or ethernet. would a wirless usb thingy work on my system? thanks Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Feb. 21 2007,02:51
With 32mb, you may or may not want to use a frugal. You can try it if you want and see what suits your needs.usb can be found in /mnt/sdXx after you mount it. Phone-line dial-up, and wired ethernet should be relatively easy to use. Wireless ethernet can work, but it depends on your chipset. Please post what model/revision/chipset you have. Posted by win95 2 dsl on Feb. 21 2007,22:10
Ok...Im kinda just learning linux and all this stuff, so you would have to tell me where to find out what my chipset is. If there isnt a way to get wireless, is there such thing as an adapter that goes from phone plugin to ethernet, or usb to ethernet, because this laptop doesnt have an ethernet port. Wireless would be my first choice. Roberts has helped me alot, and I appreciate all you guys help. Thanks Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Feb. 21 2007,23:03
See "System Stats", or use `lspci -v`
Posted by lucky13 on Feb. 21 2007,23:49
Wireless is an option if you have a pcmcia slot or get a USB wireless adapter. And if you have wireless access. I don't know of any kind of modem-ethernet adapter, especially since most internal modems are software modems anyway. You can run ethernet directly from a DSL/cable modem (bridge) with the USB cable that should've come with the modem (bridge); you can also find these fairly cheap, or ask a neighbor or friend who has cable/DSL for one. Alternatively, and especially if you have a home network, you can find USB-ethernet dongles (~$20) that allow you to run a standard ethernet cable jack in to the dongle which is then inserted in the computer. Either way, run netcardconfig and it should detect the USB port as eth0. Posted by win95 2 dsl on Feb. 22 2007,19:08
Ok thanks guys,USB access is working great, now I can acctually get stuff off this old machine without using floppys. Ok...the hard drive install I did was that frugal? Because if theres a way to install it so it doesent boot like a live cd I would rather do that. I think I do have PCMCIA slot because somthing like that shows up when I look at the system stats. (I dont know what the heck PCMCIA is tho) Ill try to find my chipset and post it here, I think wireless usb is the way I want to go. P.s. I made a cool Desktop style. Is there anyway I can post that text here for other people to use? Posted by win95 2 dsl on Feb. 23 2007,01:58
Heres my stats (I sent this from another computer not the one im working on.Could you tell me what needs to be done from that? ------------------------------------------------------------ dsl-3.2 Thu Feb 22 12:13:05 2007 processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 5 model : 4 model name : Pentium MMX stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 165.793 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : yes coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx bogomips : 330.13 total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 30429184 25591808 4837376 0 401408 9318400 Swap: 198139904 8568832 189571072 MemTotal: 29716 kB MemFree: 4724 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 392 kB Cached: 6720 kB SwapCached: 2380 kB Active: 10892 kB Inactive: 10348 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 29716 kB LowFree: 4724 kB SwapTotal: 193496 kB SwapFree: 185128 kB # Insert nameservers here # nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver 206.13.28.12 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:16420 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:16420 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1017537 (993.6 KiB) TX bytes:1017537 (993.6 KiB) soundcore 3428 0 (autoclean) apm 9736 1 (autoclean) mousedev 3832 0 (unused) hid 22372 0 (unused) input 3168 0 [mousedev hid] cloop 39364 0 (unused) nls_iso8859-1 2844 1 (autoclean) ntfs 50944 0 (autoclean) msdos 4684 0 (autoclean) reiserfs 169616 0 (autoclean) ext3 64452 0 (autoclean) jbd 46516 0 (autoclean) [ext3] serial 52068 0 (autoclean) usb-ohci 18088 0 (unused) usbcore 57824 1 [hid usb-ohci] ds 6536 2 i82365 12580 2 pcmcia_core 39840 0 [ds i82365] ide-cd 28704 0 ide-scsi 9040 0 rtc 7004 0 (autoclean) 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems 601 (rev 26) 0000:00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Chips and Technologies F65555 HiQVPro (rev c3) 0000:00:0b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 01) PID Uid VmSize Stat Command 1 root 52 S init [5] 2 root SW [keventd] 3 root SWN [ksoftirqd_CPU0] 4 root SW [kswapd] 5 root SW [bdflush] 6 root SW [kupdated] 60 root 476 S cardmgr 68 root SW [khubd] 291 root 536 S /sbin/syslogd 305 root 1020 S /bin/bash -login 321 dsl 1020 S -su 339 dsl 880 S /bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startx 352 dsl 552 S xinit /home/dsl/.xinitrc -- /home/dsl/.xserverrc 353 root 7912 S /usr/bin/X11/Xfbdev -2button -mouse /dev/psaux -nolis 355 root SW [kapmd] 357 dsl 1612 S fluxbox 370 dsl Z [iconsnap.lua] 372 dsl 2300 S xtdesk 375 dsl 1028 S fluxter 376 dsl 1016 S /bin/lua /usr/local/bin/docked.lua 377 dsl 652 S wmswallow -geometry 70x80 docked docked.lua 381 dsl 844 S torsmo 683 dsl 2712 S xpaint 824 dsl 3216 S /bin/lua /usr/sbin/cpanel.lua 827 dsl 3228 S /bin/lua /usr/local/bin/stats.lua 849 dsl 980 S sh -c busybox ps | tee /tmp/stats.txt >> stats.txt 850 dsl 704 R busybox ps 851 dsl 432 S tee /tmp/stats.txt <4>Linux version 2.4.26 (root@Knoppix) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 SMP Sa Apr 17 19:33:42 CEST 2004 <6>BIOS-provided physical RAM map: <4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) <4> BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) <4> BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) <4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000002020000 (usable) <4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) <5>0MB HIGHMEM available. <5>32MB LOWMEM available. <4>On node 0 totalpages: 8224 <4>zone(0): 4096 pages. <4>zone(1): 4128 pages. <4>zone(2): 0 pages. <6>DMI not present. <3>ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP <4>Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda5 quiet vga=788 noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal <4>No local APIC present or hardware disabled <6>Initializing CPU#0 <4>Detected 165.793 MHz processor. <4>Console: colour dummy device 80x25 <4>Calibrating delay loop... 330.13 BogoMIPS <6>Memory: 29576k/32896k available (1371k kernel code, 2932k reserved, 561k data, 140k init, 0k highmem) <6>Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) <6>Inode cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) <6>Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) <6>Buffer cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) <4>Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) <5>Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. <7>CPU: After generic, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 <7>CPU: Common caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 <6>Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. <6>Checking for popad bug... OK. <4>POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX <4>mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) <4>mtrr: detected mtrr type: none <7>CPU: After generic, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 <7>CPU: Common caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 <4>CPU0: Intel Pentium MMX stepping 03 <4>per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 159.86 usecs. <5>SMP motherboard not detected. <5>Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation. <4>Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0) <4>All processors have done init_idle <6>ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326 <6>ACPI: Interpreter disabled. <6>PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdce3, last bus=21 <6>PCI: Using configuration type 1 <6>PCI: Probing PCI hardware <4>PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries <4>PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) <6>isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... <6>isapnp: No Plug & Play device found <6>Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 <6>Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 <4>Initializing RT netlink socket <4>Starting kswapd <5>VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1 <6>vesafb: framebuffer at 0xfe000000, mapped to 0xc300d000, size 1875k <6>vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=0 <6>vesafb: protected mode interface info at e400:96b0 <6>vesafb: scrolling: redraw <6>vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 <4>Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37 <6>fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device <4>pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured <6>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M <6>FDC 0 is an 8272A <4>RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize <6>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 <6>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx <4>hda: TOSHIBA MK2103MAV, ATA DISK drive <4>hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1502BN, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 <4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 <4>hda: attached ide-disk driver. <4>hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } <4>hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } <6>hda: 4233600 sectors (2168 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=525/128/63 <6>Partition check: <6> hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > <4>ide: late registration of driver. <6>SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 <3>kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 <3>kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 <6>Initializing Cryptographic API <6>NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 <6>IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP <6>IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes <6>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048) <6>NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. <4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. <6>Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed <6>Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f <6>Adding Swap: 193496k swap-space (priority -1) <4>hdc: attached ide-scsi driver. <6>scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices <4> Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-1502BN Rev: 1001 <4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 <4>Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 <4>sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 10x/10x xa/form2 cdda tray <6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 <6>Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22 <6> options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] <6>Intel ISA PCIC probe: <6> Intel i82365sl B step ISA-to-PCMCIA at port 0x3e0 ofs 0x00, 2 sockets <6> host opts [0]: none <6> host opts [1]: none <6> ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,5,7,9,10,12 status change on irq 10 <6>cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. <6>cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean. <6>cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x220-0x22f 0x2f8-0x2ff 0x330-0x337 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x3f8-0x3ff 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7 <6>cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. <6>usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs <6>usb.c: registered new driver hub <6>usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 19:48:59 Apr 17 2004 <6>usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled <6>usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver <6>usb.c: deregistering driver usbdevfs <6>usb.c: deregistering driver hub <6>usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs <6>usb.c: registered new driver hub <6>usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc3237000, IRQ 11 <6>usb-ohci.c: usb-00:0b.0, NEC Corporation USB <6>usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 <6>hub.c: USB hub found <6>hub.c: 2 ports detected <4>usbdevfs: remount parameter error <6>Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled <6>ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A <6>ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A <6>parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE] <6>parport0: irq 7 detected <6>Journalled Block Device driver loaded <3>VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0(3,3). <4>VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,3). <4>Unable to identify CD-ROM format. <4>sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs on ide0(3,3) <4>FAT: bogus logical sector size 11080 <4>VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:03. <4>FAT: bogus logical sector size 11080 <4>VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:03. <5>NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/W MODULE] <4>cloop: Initializing cloop v2.01 <6>cloop: loaded (max 128 devices) <6>usb.c: registered new driver hiddev <6>usb.c: registered new driver hid <6>hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> <6>hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers <6>mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice <3>sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. <6>cdrom: open failed. <6>apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x02 (Driver version 1.16) /dev/hda5 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro) /proc on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/pts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) /proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw,devmode=0666) Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 1.6G 136.7M 1.4G 9% / LANG="C" COUNTRY="us" LANGUAGE="us" CHARSET="iso8859-1" KEYTABLE="us" XKEYBOARD="us" MOUSE_FULLNAME="Generic Mouse (PS/2)" MOUSE_DEVICE="/dev/psaux" XSERVER="XFree86" XMODULE="chips" XDESC="CT65555 F65555 HiQVPro" FLOPPY_FULLNAME='3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive' FLOPPY_DEVICE="/dev/fd0" FLOPPY_DRIVER="unknown" root=/dev/hda5 quiet vga=788 noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal ------------------------------------------------------------ P.s I cant get audio to work. lol sorry for being such a noob. |