Sunday, February 13, 2005

installing athena

Installing Athena on this new machine was a long drawn out process. the bootkit didn't see the motherboard network card, so I borrowed a PCI network card from another machine.

backup /boot /dell /etc /lib/modules/2.4.21-15.EL /usr/X11R6/lib64 /var/lib

backup text of ls -laR, df, rpm -q -a, fdisk p q

I wish I had also backed up rpm --q -a --provides

on partitioning, careful not to blow away the Dell utility partition and the secret reinstall partition. And leave some space for a future operating system partition.

Remember to do advanced custom install to select a multiprocessor kernel.

editing grub and fstab to change hda into sda for this weird SATA is it SCSI or is it not madness.

redhat-config-network to configure the motherboard eth0.

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