HP Armada 7400 Software Installation Manual page 17

Installation of Linux on Compaq Armada 7400/7800 Portables
23. NFS, if you need it say Yes. This example doesn' t
24. The news-from address, keep same as host
25. Access to nameserver. If Yes then Setup wants a numeric IP. This example is using DHCP so say No.
26. Network device selection. This example is using PCMCIA on eth0 which is the default on the menu.
27. Sendmail Configuration: SuSE just installs one of two default sendmail configurations which must be setup
for your particular network (find the nearest sendmail guru). This example is not going to use Sendmail to
choose Do not install...
28. Setup starts Linux with the 2.0.36 kernel to finish setting up configuration files.
29. Root password entry.
30. Example user, your choice. Nicer than adduser
31. Modem setup, it asks for the COM port. Remember the ' standard' is: COM1(0x3F8), COM2(0x2F8),
COM3(0x3E8), COM4(0x2E8). Compaq BIOS by default puts the internal modem on COM3.
32. Mouse setup. For the point stick select PS/2.
33. GPM setup. GPM is a text mode driver for the mouse. Say Yes.
34. SuSE starts Linux again and presents you with a login prompt but configurations isn' t quite finished. After
about a minute an automatic script starts to finish off configuration. Press Alt-F9 to see this activity(Alt-F1
gets you back to the login). It takes several minutes to finish depending on the speed of the machine. I
always let it finish before rebooting to test the installation. SuSE says you can reboot before its finished
and the script will take up where it left off.
35. Remember to remove the SuSE CD#1 before rebooting.
Post SuSE installation configuration:
Boot diskette creation
It is a good idea to have a backup mechanism to boot Linux. A boot diskette can be created at any time using the
following method.
1. Log in as root
2. Put a known good, formatted floppy diskette in the drive
3. Execute yast
4. Goto SystemAdministration->KernelAndBootConfiguration->CreateABootDisk
Activating PCMCIA and DHCP
1. Log in as root
2. Start yast
3. Goto SystemAdministration->ChangeConfigurationFile
4. Set DHCLIENT=Yes. The above installation method insures this is already set.
5. Set PCMCIA=i82365
6. Either reboot or restart the scripts which load the PCMCIA and DHCP modules
Sound Configuration:
1. Write down what the audio resources are from Computer Setup
2. Boot Linux and log in as root
3. If you did not install the OSS package from Series pay1 then do so now with yast
4. cd to /tmp/ossLinux-3.7.1z the directory name will be different if you installed a different OSS version
5. Read the INSTALL file!!!!
6. Execute ./ossLinux.runme
7. It give a choice of four different location to uncompress the files to. Pick one.
8. It will then prompt to autodetect. Choose Autodetect
9. It should find Generic ESS ES1688. OSS does come with an ESS1879 driver but this is only for ISA PnP
cards, not embedded versions of the 1879.
10. Next, choose manual configuration
11. Use your Computer Setup information to choose the card settings. For example, the BIOS defaults are
I/O=0x220, IRQ5, DMA1, MPU=0x330. The ESS1879 uses two DMA channels, you want to use DMA1,
or whatever the 2
12. Select Save and Exit.
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the ./ is required
nd
DMA channel is set to.
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