about the hardware (and device drivers) installed on my computer:

System Optimization PC Hardware and Performance Guide http://www.sysopt.com/ 



Tyan motherboard


Matrox Mystique
(*not* the "Mystique 200", or the "Mystique 220";
just plain "Mystique".)
http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/mystique_g200/home.htm
http://www.matrox.com/mga/drivers/latest_drivers/ftp_myst_w9x.htm
ViewSonic G790 monitor

Hercules Thriller 3D
I am using the reference drivers
from the Rendition V2000 chip manufacturer
http://www.rendition.com/usersupport.html
I am *not* using the drivers from the card manufacturer (
http://www.hercules.com/support/drivers/thriller/thrill3d.htm
)
NEC MultiSync C500 monitor
(also has TV-in and TV-out connectors)



Alps MD-2010 "Micro-Dry" printer
http://www.alpsusa.com/drivers/
http://www.alpsusa.com/drivers/mdprinter.exe
(A nice printer, better quality than most ink-jets,
and it uses "dry" ribbons, so it doesn't have the
"wet paper" problem of most ink-jets.)



about the software installed on my computer:
Software:

Dual-boot:
Microsoft Windows98
from CD
and
Red Hat Linux 6.0


When installing MS-Windows, the screen
looks wierd for a while -- just ignore it,
hit enter a few times, and it goes away.
(I'm pretty sure it's something to do with the motherboard --
-- several different video cards
have exactly the same "double letters" problem
in this motherboard,
and putting those video cards in other machines do not
have this problem).

Also,
on the Windows98 "Power Management Properties",
I choose "Turn off monitor: Never"
because the system always locks up
(just a single blinking text cursor bar in the
upper left corner of a otherwise black screen,
moving the mouse or typing on the keyboard
has no effect except ctrl-alt-del, which reboots)
when Win98 tries to turn off the monitor.



WinZip from
http://www.winzip.com/



SETI@home from
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/





TClockEx
Taskbar Clock Enhancement
http://users.iafrica.com/d/da/dalen/tclockex.htm


FTP Voyager
http://www.ftpvoyager.com/



http://www.mozilla.org/



Netscape 6
from

http://netscape.com/

and some directions on

http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/ns6/relnotes/6.0.html






Microsoft Office (from CD)
Office 97 Service Release 2 (SR-2)
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/Articles/sr2fact.htm


Visual Studio 6.0
from CD
"the environment variables required to run
build tools from a command prompt
are saved in the VCVARS32.BAT
in your BIN directory."

Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/sp/default.asp


InstallShield for Microsoft Visual C++ 6
came on the Visual Studio 6.0 CD
see
http://www.installshield.com/
for updates.

netatalk

My Linux box dials into my ISP to connect to to the Internet. All the other machines in my house (a Win98 box and a Mac) go through it to access the 'net. Macintosh machines prefer Linux Netatalk-HOWTO http://www.anders.com/projects/netatalk/ | http://sourceforge.net/projects/netatalk/ | http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk | http://www.zettabyte.net/netatalk/ (old version, but it has more pretty pictures) Linux Netatalk-HOWTO by Anders Brownworth http://pc2.gly.bris.ac.uk/netatalk/ /* was http://thehamptons.com/anders/netatalk/ */

2002-02-04:DAV: also see ``Low Cost Macintosh-Linux Networking at Home'' by Dr. Richard L. Dubs 1998 http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue26/dubs.html uses LocalTalk hardware (more or less), rather than Ethernet hardware. DAV: I haven't tried this option ...

Note to self: when the power goes out, I usually have to go to the Mac and choose Apple | Control Panels | AppleTalk and switch it from "Modem/Printer Port" to "Ethernet". [FIXME: email this "missing link" to the maintainers of the above document]. Linux Services for Macintosh and Windows Users http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html The Win98 box prints on the Alps printer, even though the printer is connected to the Linux box.

Here's a rough draft. Obviously I haven't gotten netatalk completely working yet, but I think it's partially working -- and partial documentation is better than no documentation. Help me fix this.

My installation:

  1. download latest source from sourceforge.net
  2. `rpm -U -vv --hash netatalk-1.4.99-0.20001108mdk.src.rpm' which installed the file `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/netatalk-1.4.99.tar.bz2'
  3. `cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/'
  4. `tar --extract -v --bzip -f netatalk-1.4.99.tar.bz2'
  5. `cd netatalk'
  6. `./autogen.sh' (which runs autoconf)
  7. `./configure'
  8. `make'
  9. `make check'
  10. `make install'
  11. [not neccessary for me to edit /etc/services , since default Red Hat already set it up properly]
  12. `ln --symbolic /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/netatalk/ /usr/local/atalk' (I'm not sure this is necessary ... I think this is fixing something I broke elsewhere).
  13. `cp -v -i config/*default config/*system config/*conf etc/'

    (look at `man afpd.conf' for details)

    Uncomment the default settings (the last line of afpd.conf).

  14. edit
  15. ... seems I accidentally deleted the rc.atalk.redhat script; grab it from elsewhere and install as `/usr/local/atalk/etc/rc.atalk'.
  16. run `/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/appletalk.o' `etc/rc.atalk start' for a initial test. Typing `/sbin/lsmod' should show the appletalk module.
  17. edit `/etc/rc.d/rc.local/' to add the lines `/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/appletalk.o' (to load the appletalk kernel module) `sh /usr/local/atalk/etc/rc.atalk start' so Appletalk restarts when I reboot.
  18. When I try to access the server from a Mac, "Apple | Chooser | AppleShare", I see the "tiny" server. When I click on it, I see the "Guest" option, but "Registered User" is greyed out. When I log in as "Guest", I don't see any volumes available (even though my /usr/local/atalk/etc/AppleVolumes.system lists a volume).

trying again, on a freshly-installed Red Hat 6.2 (Zoot):

  1. download latest source from sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/netatalk/
  2. `su root'
  3. `rpm -U -vv --hash netatalk-1.5pre3-1mdk.src.rpm' which installed the file `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/netatalk-1.5pre3.tar.bz2'
  4. `cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/'
  5. `tar --extract -v --bzip -f netatalk-1.5pre3.tar.bz2'
  6. `ln --symbolic /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/netatalk-release/ /usr/local/atalk' (there's probably an easier way to do this ...).
  7. `cd netatalk-release'
  8. `./autogen.sh' (which runs autoconf) gives the error: ``automake: Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL'; error while making link: File exists''. I ignore that error and
  9. `./configure --enable-redhat' (DAV: it took me forever to figure this out)
  10. `make' (which, among other things, creates the appropriate `atalk' file. On my Red Hat system, it converts /usr/local/atalk/distrib/initscripts/rc.atalk.redhat.templ into a `atalk' executable in the same directory).
  11. `make check'
  12. `make install' (which installs the `atalk' file created in previous steps into `/etc/rc.d/init.d/atalk', and puts a copy of all the configuration files (afpd.conf, etc.) into `/etc/atalk/'.
  13. [not neccessary for me to edit `/etc/services', since default Red Hat already set it up properly]
  14. `/sbin/lsmod' shows that appletalk still isn't running.
  15. '/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/appletalk.o'
  16. `/sbin/lsmod' shows that appletalk kernel module is running.
  17. `/etc/rc.d/init.d/atalk start' for a initial test. I see the message "Starting AppleTalk services: [ OK ]"
  18. I walk over to a Mac on the network and try to access the server: "Apple | Chooser | AppleShare", I see the "jeeves" server. When I click on it, I see the "Guest" option and the "Registered User" option. Unfortunately, my password is more than 8 characters on `jeeves', so I create a new user (I like to use `linuxconf', while others go directly to `adduser'). Hm, it keeps telling me my password is incorrect... even though I can stroll back to the Red Hat box and log right in with that same password.
  19. edit `/etc/rc.d/rc.local/' and add these 2 lines to the end:

    `/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/appletalk.o' (to load the appletalk kernel module)
    `sh init.d/atalk start' (so Appletalk restarts when I reboot.)

  20. Uncomment the default settings (the last line of /etc/atalk/afpd.conf).
  21. read the document http://www.anders.com/projects/netatalk/passwords.html
  22. Add a volume to the end of `/etc/atalk/AppleVolumes.default'. OK, now when I try to log in as guest, it lets me pick that volume -- but as soon as I click `OK', it says `The attempted connection to the server's volume has failed. Please contact the server's administrator.'. So close, and yet so far ...

    As recommended by http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/faq.html , I checked `less /var/log/messages' and I can see my login attempt, but it's not obvious what the problem is. The log says `cleartext login: david' `atp_rresp: Connection timed out' .

  23. If I edit AppleVolumes.default to append the line 
    /home/david/ "Stuff for Dav"
    then try to log in as guest from my Mac, I can see that item "Stuff for Dav", but trying to actually access it gives me a error ``The attempted connection to the server's volume has failed. Please contact the server's administrator.''. That directory (when I look at it on the Linux side) is world-readable, world-writable.
  24. When I change that line to 
    /home/david/Stuff/ "Stuff for Dav"
    then try to log in as guest from my Mac, I don't see any items when I try to log in as guest.
  25. adding a ".passwd" file in the root of my ~/david/ directory doesn't seem to help. On my Mac, I still get a "Sorry, your password is incorrect" message. ( http://www.anders.com/projects/netatalk/impatient.html )
  26. added some lines to /etc/atalk/AppleVolumes.default 
    ~ Home
/usr/pub "Linux share"
    as suggested on http://www.anders.com/projects/netatalk/tips.html . Excellent ! I can log in as guest now ! But when I double click on the "Home" icon, I see the root (``/'') Linux directory. Not exactly what I expected, but workable.

    Aha ! I think I fixed something: my /home/david/ directory was world-readable, but not world-executable.

Win98 boxes (and I believe other flavors of Windows) use http://www.mdb.ku.dk/tarvin/samba/ http://www.samba.org/

Samba http://www.samba.org/ also http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/network/samba/samba1.html

Adobe Acrobat Reader from http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html GhostView from ____

Real Player 32 from http://www.real.com/

gnotepad 1.1.3 http://members.xoom.com/ackahn/gnp came with the Red Hat 6.0 CD.

Corel Draw 8.232 from CD updates from http://www.corel.com/ http://www.corel.com/support/ftpsite/ : first CorelDRAW(tm) 8 Revision Patch Upgrades CorelDRAW 8 from build 232 to 369. DR8RevB.exe : then CorelDRAW(tm) 8 Service Pack 2 Upgrades CorelDRAW(tm) 8 from build 369 to 433. Cd8sp2en.exe

Mathcad 8 Professional Academic Edition from CD then Service Pack from http://www.mathsoft.com/support/patch/803acaspack.asp

xv (X Viewer) http://www.trilon.com/xv/xv.html from http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/X11_Applications_Graphics.html http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/contrib/libc6/i386/xv-3.10a-13+flmask.i386.html

Hyperterminal downloaded from http://www.hilgraeve.com/htpe.html

AtomTime98 http://www.atomtime.com/

BulletProof FTP from http://www.winfiles.com/apps/98/ftp.html

(don't really need this) TxEdit from Software Design http://www.execpc.com/~sbd/TxEdit.html

1999-08-21: upgraded from /usr/bin/netscape-communicator to /usr/local/netscape/netscape 4.61

I wanted some file splitter software, so I looked on tucows http://www.tucows.com/ until I found AxMan http://www.mosaicware.com/axman.html and File Chopper http://home3.swipnet.se/~w-38905/ . (I like AxMan better).

Downloaded Macromedia Shockwave from http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

jeeves

jeeves using Red Hat Linux 6.2 http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl62.html

drives:

hda: 812 MB

hdb: 3228 MB

partitions: (see Linux Partition HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition/ for tips on how to partition -- the source of some of these quotes. It seems to imply that having a "SWAP" partition on each and every hard drive can speed programs that heavily use SWAP space ? ) 

hda1   16 MB /boot "If you are using lilo, your boot partition must be contained
       within the first 1024 cylinders of the drive. ...
       If you have more than one boot partition (from other OSs, for example,) keep them all in the first 1024 cylinders "
hda5  763 MB /var
hda6   32 MB SWAP

hdb1   11 MB
hdb5 1027 MB /
hdb6  614 MB /home
I [DAV] like to keep my user directory small enough to
make it easy to archive on CD-ROM.
hdb7  515 MB SWAP
hdb8  909 MB /home/RH62 (a copy of the Red Hat 6.2 CD-ROM)

Yes, there's a bunch of (blank) partitions I'm not using. No good reason.

Memory:

CD-ROM:

Network Card: I tell `linuxconf' that it's a NE2000 with ioaddress=0x300, IRQ11, and it seems to work. I got this ISA card for free ... The photographs at http://www.amy.hi-ho.ne.jp/shimada/neptune/ne2000.html look very similar to my card (it appears to have exactly the same components, rearranged slightly differently) components: RTL8009 52082A1 U RMC ? Taiwan 2 of HM6265LWM-70 MC14051BCP CSI CAT93C46P several components from YCL (one a DC-DC converter) MYSON MTD392N

Mouse:

Monitor: MAG LX1564 (Hm, not on R.H.'s list of monitors ... I select "MAG MX15F", and ... fails test. "MAG DX715T", and ... seems to work OK.) Soon after selecting this in the install program, remember to choose "custom resolution" and selecte *all* resulutions I'm likely to use, so I can use CTRL++ and CTRL+- to switch resolutions.

Video Card: Make, model, VRAM Actix Systems, Inc. http://tile.net/vendors/actix.html VESA video card P/N 8004930340 (c) 1993 One chip says: S3 P86C805 8 memory chips each say: AAA1M304J-05 (from AMD) NMBS 9218 V3 which, according to http://www.chipdir.com/chipdir/n/13.htm , is 1 Mbit chip: 256k*4 Fast Pagemode DRAM from NMB, so I have a total of 1 MB. try: GE32i : seemed to lock up with HD spinning. try: ProStar : seems to work, until I set 8 bits/pixel 1024 x 768 seems to lock up. try: Actix GE32+ 2MB (S3 801/804) SuperProbe says: Super-VGA Chipset: S3 P86C805 Memory: 1024 KBytes RAMDAC: AT&T 20C492

Sound Card

IP address: 192.168.1.??

Netmask: 255.255.255.0

Gateway IP address:

Name server IP address:

Domain name:

Hostname: jeeves

[FIXME:] Red Hat Linux 6.2 Gotchas and Workarounds http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/6.2/gotchas-6.2.html Red Hat Linux 6.2 Security Advisories http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh62-errata-security.html

driver disk: http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-6.2-Manual/ref-guide/ch-driverdisk.html specifically says "There is really no need to use a driver disk unless you need a particular device in order to install Red Hat Linux." so I don't use one, even though (because there are no PCI devices) it asks about one during install.

virtual consoles: Ctrl+Alt+F1 through Ctrl+Alt+F7(X graphical display)

"[Y] Everything"

2001-01-20:DAV: Tried to install telnet-server on tiny.

started 2000-12-13