Page 2 - Defence Research Establishment Atlantic; Contractor Report
Final report on the installation of Linuxand other software on a Windows NTsystem David R. Chang Evans Computer Applications Ltd.6424 Norwood St.Halifax NS B3H 2L3 Contract Number: W7707-9-7157 Contract Scientific Authority: Ian Fraser (902) 426-3100 ext 149 Defence Research Establishment Atlantic C...
Page 4 - Abstract
DR EA CR 2001-107 i Abstract This report describes how the Red Hat Linux 6.0 operating system was installed on aWindows NT desktop computer. The subsequent installation of application software for NTand Linux (including IDL for Linux) is also outlined. Résumé Vous trouverez dans ce rapport la descri...
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Page 6 - Executive summary; Introduction; de facto; Results
DR EA CR 2001-107 iii Executive summary Introduction Over the past several years, open source software architectures have come into vogue,enabling the support base of programmers and engineers to greatly increase at little or no costto the end user. Among UNIX operating systems, Linux has become the...
Page 7 - Sommaire; de fait; Résultats; CRDA
iv DR EA CR 2001-107 Sommaire Introduction Depuis quelques années, les architectures logicielles ouvertes ont la cote et permettentd'élargir considérablement la base des programmeurs et des ingénieurs qui en font le soutien,et cela sans frais ou presque pour les utilisateurs finals. Un des systèmes ...
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DR EA CR 2001-107 v Table of contents Abstract .............................................................................................................................................. i Résumé.........................................................................................................
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DR EA CR 2001-107 vii VI. PROBLEMS ............................................................................................................................. 20 References.................................................................................................................................
Page 12 - Iomega ZIP 100 MB internal drive.
DR EA CR 2001-107 1 I. INTRODUCTION The object of this contract was to install Linux and some application software on a DellOptiPlex GX1 desktop computer with the following hardware: 1. Pentium III processor, 450 MHz. 2. 256 MB ECC memory. 3. 512 KB level 2 cache. 4. ATI 3D RAGE PRO TURBO, AGP 2X, v...
Page 13 - II. INSTALLING THE SCSI CARD SOFTWARE; Installation of the SCSI driver software takes more work:; Exit from the utility.
2 DR EA CR 2001-107 II. INSTALLING THE SCSI CARD SOFTWARE Installing the EZ-SCSI software is straightforward. One only has toinsert the CD-ROM in the drive and follow the on-screen instructions. Installation of the SCSI driver software takes more work: 1. Log in as administrator. 2. Click on "St...
Page 14 - Preparing for Installation; The hardware manuals that came with the computer.
DR EA CR 2001-107 3 III. INSTALLING RED HAT LINUX 6.0 The "Official Red Hat Linux Installation Guide" is primarily geared for simple installations onWindows 95 machines. It is not an ideal reference for more complicated operations, such asthe dual-boot Windows NT/Linux installation that was ...
Page 15 - Partitioning the Disks; Partitions and Sizes
4 DR EA CR 2001-107 As it turned out, the installation program was able to automatically identify most of thehardware. The information that we had to provide was: 1. The mouse's type and number of buttons (generic PS/2 with two buttons). 2. Whether or not the disk drives were accessed in LBA (linear...
Page 17 - Performing the Partitioning
6 DR EA CR 2001-107 The size of the /usr partition was chosen based on the statement in the Installation Guide(page 30) that a 1 GB partition would allow one to install every Red Hat package. The finalpartition on the SCSI drive was designated /u1 in accordance with a naming scheme used byPenguin Co...
Page 21 - We did not ask to configure a printer.
10 DR EA CR 2001-107 management, whereas nfs is a file protocol for file sharing across TCP/IP networks. 3.13 Configuring a Printer (p. 96 of guide) We did not ask to configure a printer. 3.14 Authentication Configuration (pp. 103-104 of guide) We unchecked "Enable NIS". We checked "Use ...
Page 22 - Preparing the Computer for Dual Booting; Reboot the system to load Windows NT.
DR EA CR 2001-107 11 Guide"). 3.19 Preparing the Computer for Dual Booting This consists of following the instructions given in the "NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO" (see section III. above). In brief, the procedure is: 1. Boot Linux using the Linux boot disk prepared during the installa...
Page 23 - IV. SYSTEM CONFIGURATION; WINDOWS NT CONFIGURATION; Installing Service Packs
12 DR EA CR 2001-107 IV. SYSTEM CONFIGURATION 1. WINDOWS NT CONFIGURATION 1.1 Installing Service Packs At the request of a user, we upgraded the Windows NT system with Service Pack 4 and theassociated Year 2000 Service Pack. The Service Pack files had been downloaded into thefolder c:\Service Pack4....
Page 24 - LINUX CONFIGURATION
DR EA CR 2001-107 13 1.3 Installing Application Software At the users' request, we installed some acoustic data manipulation software (Chang, 1999).This simply involved copying the program executables from another Windows NTworkstation (kingfisher). To use the programs on the saturn workstation, fol...
Page 25 - Installing Fortran; Change to the directory in which you saved the tar file.
14 DR EA CR 2001-107 2.6 Installing Fortran Installation of Gnu Fortran (egcs-g77) was done by running GnoRPM. GnoRPM is describedon pages 183 to 194 of the "Red Hat Linux Installation Guide". When logged in as root, weentered: mount /mnt/cdromgnorpm &umount /mnt/cdrom 2.7 Installing IDL...
Page 27 - LOGGING IN AND LOGGING OUT
16 DR EA CR 2001-107 V. USING LINUX 1. BOOTING LINUX One selects "Linux" from the OS Loader list. The prompt "LILO boot:" will appear. One doesnot have to enter anything at this point; Linux will boot by default after a few seconds. If thereis a disk present in the Zip drive, this sl...
Page 28 - LINUX DEVICE NAMES
DR EA CR 2001-107 17 4. LINUX DEVICE NAMES Some of this information can be obtained by examining the file /etc/fstab. Standard devicenames are listed in table 5. Table 5. Linux Device Names. Device NT Linux Linux Type Mounted at Drive Device Device Mount Point Linux Boot? ———————————————————————————...
Page 29 - TRANSFERRING FILES BETWEEN NT AND LINUX; Two ways to access vfat partitions under Linux are:; Standard cp Command
18 DR EA CR 2001-107 5. TRANSFERRING FILES BETWEEN NT AND LINUX Although Windows NT cannot use files in Linux ext2 disk partitions, Linux can read/writedata in Windows NT vfat partitions. Thus data files on the Windows NT drives E:, F: and G:(/fat1, /fat2, /fat3 under Linux) can be read/written by e...
Page 31 - Due to lack of time, we were unable to resolve the following issues:
20 DR EA CR 2001-107 VI. PROBLEMS Due to lack of time, we were unable to resolve the following issues: 1. We were unable to determine how one uses the Zip drive under Linux.During boot up, Linux does recognize the Zip drive however. 2. When Linux is booted, the following message appears after "E...
Page 32 - References
DR EA CR 2001-107 21 References 1. Chang, David, "Final Report and User's Manual for Changes and Updates to Acoustic Data Manipulation Software", DREA Contractor Report, Draft, September 1999. 2. Danesh, Arman, "Mastering Linux", SYBEX Inc., Alameda, California, 1999. 3. Dell Compute...
