Dell 8000 - Manual

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Table of Contents:

  • Page 2 – Video Issues; LILO parameters
  • Page 3 – Xserver-XFree86 Configuration
  • Page 4 – Installing Samba
  • Page 7 – Printing to a Windoze Printer with CUPS
  • Page 9 – External Mice; Necessary kernel modules
  • Page 10 – Configuring X
  • Page 11 – Configuring Sound; Inserting the Sound LKM
  • Page 12 – Adding Yourself to the Audio Group
  • Page 13 – Rerolling your Kernel; Trashing It
  • Page 14 – Rescuing an Install; Miscellaneous
  • Page 15 – An Explanation of UNIX Permissions
  • Page 16 – Other Resources; Thanks
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Nori’s mini-HOWTO:

Debian Woody on the Dell Inspiron 8000

Nori Heikkinen

August 13, 2003

Rationale

All my previous installs of Debian have been really easy, but then again they’ve
all been on PC desktops. The deal has been:

1. Download the first ISO image onto CD

2. Stick the CD in your drive

3. (Make sure you have the BIOS set to boot off the CD before the hard

drive)

4. Follow instructions, generally hitting ’okay’ for the next half hour

5. Ignore tasksel by and large

6. Ignore most of the dselect list, and only put on what you need later

7. . . . and

voil`

a

, a Debian install!

It was not this easy this time ’round. For whatever reason, this little i8k did

not

seem to want Debian on it! From start to finish (or rather, as finished as

it’s going to get, because I need to be doing work), it took a week and a half,
and I ended up scrapping the entire install and beginning from scratch twice.

This document is half for myself, in case I need to do this install over again,

and half for anyone else out there, who has had as much trouble as I have with
the whole process.

Good luck.

Configuration

I was working with the following system:

Dell Inspiron 8000

•

PIII, 697 MHz

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Summary

Page 2 - Video Issues; LILO parameters

• 256M RAM • ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M4 AGP • ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 10) • a Dell Logitech scrolly-wheel infrared mouse, model M-UR69 I was working off a Debian Woody image with the stock kernel 2.2.20-idepci, downloaded from the Rutgers mirror here: ...

Page 3 - Xserver-XFree86 Configuration

linux video=vga16:off (The kernel image, followed by the boot parameters.)You can now boot up okay, but you’ll need to be wary of this when you’re glibly ‘ENTER’ing through menus later in the install — when you’re asked ifyou want to append anything to the kernel image for the boot loader, you needt...

Page 4 - Installing Samba

if the display is not perfect — it might not crash if it’s not, but if it does, you don’t want to have to not only wait for it to check all its inodes (if you haven’tyet tune2fs ’d it to ext3 — see Section 7.1), but perhaps screw up in the process of so many crashes. If that’s perfect, great! If not...

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