Fedora Core 4 on dynabook SS SX/190NK
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report was written in Japanese==
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WARNING
The following operation is very risky because it is
including partition setting.
Please back up your necessary data/files by using
HDD Back Up Tools such as
Norton Ghost and Acronis TrueImage before starting
this operation if you can.
If you fail to recover your hard drive, you might
have to ask a support to TOSHIBA with charge.
Execute the below operation at your own risk.
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1. Resetting of Windows area
Firstly, you need to modify (reduce) Windows area to
secure Linux area.
Please back up your data/files beforehand
since the Windows area will be initiallized (HDD recovery).
Use 1CDLinux knoppix for resetting the partition. (With
this CD, you can go through the Linux operation.
Very usable if you have one!)
Insert knoppix_v3.8.2-20050505-20050606.iso into USB-CDROM
drive and boot the CD with
F12 + power button. Once booted, open console and change
the partition with fdisk.
Don't touch /dev/hda2 hidden area!
If you destroy it you will never recover your hard drive!!!
#su
#fdisk /dev/hda
and check the current partition with "p".
/dev/hda1 1-6984 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 6985-7296 1c hidden
Leave the recovery area as is and change the XP area from
1-6984 to 10-3000 to
secure the Linux area so that you can create a space for
/boot in front, and another space
for Linux installation on back.
Place a boot flag on hda1 and save the updated partition
with "w".
/dev/hda1 * 10-3000 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 6985-7296 1c hidden
Quit knoppix and execute HDD recovery with 0 + power button,
then recover the Windows area.
Check if you can start Windows properly.
Now the preparation is done and let's go to FC4 installation!
2. Installing FC4
Boot the FC4-i386-DVD.iso from USB-DVDROM drive.
Installation was went smoothly without problem. I made the
disk partition as follows;
/dev/hda1 10-3000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 6985-7296 1c hidden
/dev/hda3 * 1-9 83 Linux (/boot)
/dev/hda4 3001-6984 5 extended area
/dev/hda5 3001-3100 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 3101-6984 83 Linux (/root)
Please don't care even if the assignment
order of each area and partition number are mixed up.
Note that if you allocate /boot to hda1 and WinXP to hda2
in order, you will never start Windows!
3. Network configuration
The following process was done after the installation.
[LAN]
Firstly, download the appropriate driver (my case was "install-8_18.tar.bz2")
for
Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
from the following site.
http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/zip/linux/
Secondly, extract the downloaded file with the following
command;
#tar xfvj /media/floppy
Then write the following command to start the installation;
#cd Driverinstall
#./install.sh
You will be asked as "choose your favorite installation
method:", so enter "1" and then "y"(yes).
The following message will be come out;
kernel header not found
please install the linux header files
Enter the following command to proceed the installation;
#lin -s kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-i686 linux
Inputting the following command will finalize the driver
installation.
#modprobe sk98lin
[Wireless LAN]
Firstlyl, download the below 2 files from the following
sites to rebuild SRPM and install
RPM packages;
madwifi-0.0.20050217-1.src.rpm
http://pipiche.free.fr/Downloads/Fedora/SRPMS/
madwifi-kmdl-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-0.9.4.12-16.rhfc4.at.i686.rpm
http://atrpms.net/dist/fc4/madwifi/
Change directory from /root to /cdrom with the following
command;
# cd /media/cdrom
With the following command, RPM packages will be created
in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/;
# rpmbuild --rebuild madwifi-0.0.20050217-1.src.rpm
Inputting the following will complete the RPM packages installation;
# rpm -ivh madwifi-kmdl-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-0.9.4.12-16.rhfc4.at.i686.rpm
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