Lache met Linux
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Lache met Linux
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On this page you will find a report on my journey in the world of Linux
See Redhat Linux in action http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/
ftp.redhat.com/linux/8.0/en/iso/i386/
download at least psyche-i386-disc1.iso and psyche-i386-disc2.iso
Burn these image files on a CD-Rom disk using Nero, options.....
You will probably have a PC with some sort of MS Windows running on it.
With fdisk create a partition of at least 2 Gigabyte for Linux, add more Gigs
when you are about to download movies from internet.
If needed you can resize a FAT partition. Mind that you
defragment the partition first so all your data is at the beginning of the
drive.
Programs that can resize your partition are:
- fips
- Partition Magic
In general you can do with a few file systems, the ones you don't create will be created as directories in the / (root) file system. You should create a separate file system if you fear that some part of your file system may grow uncontrolled. If such a file system is merely a directory under / (root) then / (root) is also full and your system hangs. So for systems with many users create a separate file system for /home, for a system with a lot of printing you better create a separate file system for /var (spool files are in /var/spool)
Create the following file systems using the ext3 type file system (this is with journaling which is more robust and handles power outages better)| Name of filesystem | remarks | Suggested size | Actual size |
| / | > 250 Mb 1546 needed | 2048 | |
| /boot | 100 Mb | 100 | |
| /tmp | 2048 | ||
| swap | make this at least 2 times your physical memory. In fact the swap size relates to the maximum addressed memory in your applications, so power users should make swap even larger. | 2 * physical memory | 512 |
| /var | 512 | ||
| /usr/local | for tailored software, scripts are in /usr/local/bin | 512 | |
| /opt | software | 1024 | |
| /home | 2048 |
Boot Loader Configuration : choose the Grub bootloader
Select a security level for the system: Medium
Allow incoming: WWW (HTTP), SSH, DHCP
Reading package information.....
Package Group Selection
About to Install
Kernels and patches at http://www.kernel.org/
download The latest stable version of the Linux kernel , choose F for the full version , if available download the latest pre-patch from the same page
put the files in /usr/src
extract the .bz2 files
bzip2 -d linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2
untar the .tar file
tar -xvf linux-2.4.20.tar
apply the kernel patch ...
patch -p0 < patch-file
you may want to rename the directory
mv linux-2.4.20 linux-2.4.20_pre4
go top the kernel directory
cd linux-2.4.20_pre4
run all make options
make mrproper
make menuconfig
make dep
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
make install
The newly build kernel is now available from the boot menu.
This table shows status of the different functions of my Linux system. The colors tell whether things are working or not.
| Good | |
| Limited functionality | |
| Does not work | |
| Do not know, not tested yet |
| Function | tool | URL | install |
| CD-Writer | |||
| The CD drives are not detected by GnomeToaster. -> Need to change the kernel so an IDE CD-drive is accessible via SCSI drivers.( ide-scsi module ) |
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| MultiMedia | |||
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Movie player
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Mplayer
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http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design5/news.html
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download file MPlayer-0.90rc4.tar.bz2 put in /usr/src bzip2 -d MPlayer-0.90rc4.tar.bz2 tar -xvf MPlayer-0.90rc4.tar cd MPlayer-0.90rc4 ./configure --with-win32libdir=/usr/lib/win32 make make install Download font at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design5/dload.html . This is for displaying subtitles and can be done later now the MediaPlayer binary is in /usr/local/bin
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| Win32 codecs | http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/ | downloaded as w32codec.tar.tar
mv w32codec.tar.tar w32codec.tar.bz2 (file w32codec.tar.tar told me this was a bzip2 file) bzip2 -d w32codec.tar.bz2 tar -xvf w32codec.tar mkdir /usr/lib/win32 cd w32codec-0.90 mv * /usr/lib/win32 cd /usr/lib/win32 chown root:root * |
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| testing mplayer | /usr/local/bin/mplayer /mnt/cdrom/W53_01.avi
this file is created with Pinnacle software had error: Failed to open /dev/rtc tried other .avi file : this worked Tried a .WMV file (Microsoft Movie Maker) The wmvdmod.dll was reported as missing , only sound is working Downloaded larger win32codecs file http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ link Latest Win32 codecpack Installed as described above. This works !! :-) Also tested the .avi files created by pinacle : also working fine. A realplayer (or RealOne player) file results in errors. |
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| support for real player | from
http://huxley.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html?src=rpbform I
downloaded rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm.
( jumped to http://huxley.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html#demonUK )
This results in a General error. downloaded a patch (rv9_libc6_i386_cs2) from http://realforum.real.com/cgi-bin/unixplayer/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=announcements&Number=3128&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5 |
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Realplayer .rp |
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Pinnacle .avi |
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| Microsoft Movie Maker .wmv | |||
| Audio player | testing | The utility to detect and test the sound card
reports it does not know a VT82333 AC97 soundcard (which is the onboard soundcard on
my AMD Athlon PC) To overcome this we upgraded the kernel , see Update your kernel Booting from the new kernel the soundcard test program works : I hear guitar music from both left and right speaker....But : if an audio CD-Rom disc is played in the drive, the Audio player is playing track1 but there is no sound. There are several reports stating that with RedHat 7.2 the digital audio (without the special cable running from CDRom player to soundcard) is working ok and now with RedHat 8.0 it does not work anymore. I am not alone with this problem ;-). To be continued I created an analog audio cable , now I can play audio CD-roms |
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| HAM Radio software | |||
| AX25 | http://hes.iki.fi/pub/ham/unix/linux/ax25/ | library, tools, and application
programs Howto on installation of AX25 layer: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/AX25-HOWTO/x144.html modify /etc/ax25/axports |
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APRS
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APRS client | http://www.xastir.org/ | |
| Digipeater | Digi-Ned | ||
| RTTY | http://www.ham-radio.nl/softwarelinux.htm | ||
| CallBook | |||
| Logbook | |||
| SSTV | http://users.pandora.be/on1mh/ | ||
| CW | |||
| DX cluster | a la Dave's SpotCollector | ||
| Internet connection | |||
| Kabelfoon modem |
http://hints.nl.linuxfromscratch.org/intro.shtml