Dell UltraScan P990 Installation Guide

Defence Research Establishment AtlanticFinal report on the installation of Linuxand other software on a Windows NTsystemDavid R. ChangEvans Computer A

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DREA CR 2001-1071I. INTRODUCTIONThe object of this contract was to install Linux and some application software on a DellOptiPlex GX1 desktop computer

2DREA CR 2001-107II. INSTALLING THE SCSI CARD SOFTWAREInstalling the EZ-SCSI software is straightforward. One only has toinsert the CD-ROM in the dri

DREA CR 2001-1073III. INSTALLING RED HAT LINUX 6.0The "Official Red Hat Linux Installation Guide" is primarily geared for simple installati

4DREA CR 2001-107As it turned out, the installation program was able to automatically identify most of thehardware. The information that we had to pr

DREA CR 2001-1075(OS'es), provision was made to create some FAT partitions whose files could be read/writtenby either OS. It was decided to also

6DREA CR 2001-107The size of the /usr partition was chosen based on the statement in the Installation Guide(page 30) that a 1 GB partition would allo

DREA CR 2001-1077749 to 751 of the "Microsoft Windows NT Workstation Resource Kit").3. Installing LinuxThe installation process is generall

8DREA CR 2001-107Table 3. Actual partition table for EIDE drive.Mount Device Boot Start End SystemPoint——————————————————————————————————/tmp/hda1 *

Final report on the installation of Linuxand other software on a Windows NTsystemDavid R. ChangEvans Computer Applications Ltd.6424 Norwood St.Halifax

DREA CR 2001-1079bad blocks. Note that the formatting process does not happen immediately.3.7 Selecting components (p. 61 of guide)We chose component

10DREA CR 2001-107management, whereas nfs is a file protocol for file sharing across TCP/IP networks.3.13 Configuring a Printer (p. 96 of guide)We di

DREA CR 2001-10711Guide").3.19 Preparing the Computer for Dual BootingThis consists of following the instructions given in the "NT OS Loade

12DREA CR 2001-107IV. SYSTEM CONFIGURATION1. WINDOWS NT CONFIGURATION1.1 Installing Service PacksAt the request of a user, we upgraded the Windows NT

DREA CR 2001-107131.3 Installing Application SoftwareAt the users' request, we installed some acoustic data manipulation software (Chang, 1999).

14DREA CR 2001-1072.6 Installing FortranInstallation of Gnu Fortran (egcs-g77) was done by running GnoRPM. GnoRPM is describedon pages 183 to 194 of

DREA CR 2001-10715Once we had installed the update, the IDL demos ran successfully. We then sent an e-mail [email protected] to obtain an IDL lice

16DREA CR 2001-107V. USING LINUX1. BOOTING LINUXOne selects "Linux" from the OS Loader list. The prompt "LILO boot:" will appear.

DREA CR 2001-107174. LINUX DEVICE NAMES Some of this information can be obtained by examining the file /etc/fstab. Standard devicenames are listed in

18DREA CR 2001-1075. TRANSFERRING FILES BETWEEN NT AND LINUXAlthough Windows NT cannot use files in Linux ext2 disk partitions, Linux can read/writed

DREA CR 2001-10719mtools refers to MS-DOS-like disk drive letters which are defined in the file /etc/mtools.conf.These settings can be modified via t

20DREA CR 2001-107VI. PROBLEMS Due to lack of time, we were unable to resolve the following issues:1. We were unable to determine how one uses the Z

DREA CR 2001-10721References1. Chang, David, "Final Report and User's Manual for Changes and Updates to Acoustic Data Manipulation Softwa

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DRDC Atlantic mod. May 02DOCUMENT CONTROL DATA(Security classification of title, body of abstract and indexing annotation must be entered when the ov

DRDC Atlantic mod. May 0213. ABSTRACT (a brief and factual summary of the document. It may also appear elsewhere in the body of the document itself

DREA CR 2001-107iAbstractThis report describes how the Red Hat Linux 6.0 operating system was installed on aWindows NT desktop computer. The subsequ

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DREA CR 2001-107iiiExecutive summaryIntroductionOver the past several years, open source software architectures have come into vogue,enabling the sup

ivDREA CR 2001-107SommaireIntroductionDepuis quelques années, les architectures logicielles ouvertes ont la cote et permettentd'élargir considér

DREA CR 2001-107vTable of contentsAbstract.......

viDREA CR 2001-1073.12 Selecting Services for Start on Reboot (pp. 95-96)....... 93.13 Configuring a Printer (p. 96 of guide) ...