[RULE] Installation Report

[David Jamison]

Here goes!

HARDWARE OUPUT FROM SLINKY-DETECT;
(Shuold slinky detect not be mentioned in the install guide.  It is a 
very handy little utility which has kind of got buried deep in the website?)

Pc is a Digital Venturis FX P75.  Not sure of memory as I added some 
which was unmarked!

CPU:GenuineIntel:Pentium 75 - 200:133:[HAS_FPU]:266.24:f00f
MEMORY:38444:32200:0:72:3072:0:0
BRIDGE:PCI:Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]:5511/5512:unknown
BRIDGE:PCI:Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]:85C503/5513:unknown
IDE:PCI:Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]:5513 [IDE]:unknown
DISK:ATAPI/IDE:Unknown:WDC AC21200H:/dev/hda:2503872:64:63:621
FLOPPY:Floppy Drive Controller:Unknown:1.44MB 3.5":/dev/fd0
CDROM:ATAPI/IDE:Unknown:GCD-R580B:/dev/hdb
VIDEO:PCI:S3 Inc.:Trio64 (generic)    86c764/765 
[Trio32/64/64V+]:[Card:S3]:256:(null):(null)
MOUSE:PS/2:Unknown:Unknown:/dev/psaux
SERIAL:/dev/ttyS0:COM0
SERIAL:/dev/ttyS1:COM1

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DMESG

Linux version 2.4.20-8  bhcompile at stripples.devel.redhat.com  (gcc 
version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Thu Mar 13 16:42:56 
EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4769 - 00000000000ecac9 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f186e - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000002800000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff186e - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
40MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 10240
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 6144 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=302 
BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 133.639 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 266.24 BogoMIPS
Memory: 36844k/40960k available (1221k kernel code, 3408k reserved, 993k 
data, 116k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 0c
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch  rgooch at atnf.csiro.au 
mtrr: detected mtrr type: none
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf6390, last bus=0
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: Card 'SMC EtherEZ (8416)'
isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.1 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT 
SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:01.1
SIS5513: chipset revision 8
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SiS5513    ATA 16 controller
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xec70-0xec77, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
SIS5513: simplex device: DMA disabled
ide1: SIS5513 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
hda: WDC AC21200H, ATA DISK drive
hdb: GCD-R580B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hda: 2503872 sectors (1282 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=621/64/63
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 8192)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 145k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 116k freed
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
Adding Swap: 258008k swap-space (priority -1)
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
smc-ultra.c: Presently autoprobing (not recommended) for a single card.
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device eth0
smc-ultra.c: ISAPnP reports SMC EtherEZ (8416) at i/o 0x240, irq 5.
smc-ultra.c:v2.02 2/3/98 Donald Becker  becker at cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov 
eth0: SMC EtherEZ at 0x240, 00 E0 29 12 09 07,assigned  IRQ 5 
programmed-I/O mode.
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready

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free

                 total           used           free         shared    
    buffers         cached
Mem:         37428      36776        652          0               
4276            22872
-/+ buffers/cache:          9628    27800
Swap:       258008          364  257644

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df -h

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2             956M  549M  378M  60% /
none                   19M     0   19M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/fd0              1.4M  1.3M  187K  87% /mnt/floppy

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Commentary


This was an amazingly easy and straight forward install.  I initally 
created boot floppies and then discovered by accident that the PC would 
boot from Cd so I did both installs - floppies and slinky ISO both 
worked fine.

It would maybe be nice to have a module to set the monitor up as this 
can be tricky if not downright dangerous if you get it wrong.

The partitioning mini-howto is useful but perhaps a bit too detailed as 
im assuming that most pople will install RULE on a PC with a blank HDD?  
With this in mind maybe the install guide could be reworked with the 
bits about dual booting  etc hyperlinked out of the way as the guide may 
be a bit daunting to first time installers.

Otherwise fine and complete!

Regards

David

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