Prosignia 300 and Red Hat 6.2
Updated September 16, 2002
Created November 19, 2001


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HW: PS300/ , 24MB mem
SW: RH6.2, RH6.2 Network Boot Disk "/images/bootnet.img"

  24576 KB Detected

COMPAQ System BIOS - E15 (08/17/1998)
Copyright 1982,1998 Compaq Computer Corporation. All rights reserved.


Processor running at 150 MHz

SCSI Device Detected - System Board, SCSI ID 0: COMPAQ   M1606S
SCSI Device Detected - System Board, SCSI ID 5: COMPAQ   CRD-254V
SCSI Device Detected - System Board, SCSI ID 6: ARCHIVE  4326XX 27871-XXX

Insert the /images/bootnet.img floppy and boot to it:
                Welcome to Red Hat Linux 6.2!

 o  To install or upgrade a system running Red Hat Linux 2.0
    or later in graphical mode, press the <ENTER> key.

 o  To install or upgrade a system running Red Hat Linux 2.0
    or later in text mode, type: text <ENTER>.

 o  To enable expert mode, type: expert <ENTER>.  Press <F3> for
    more information about expert mode.

 o  To enable rescue mode, type: linux rescue <ENTER>.  Press <F5>
    for more information about rescue mode.

 o  If you have a driver disk, type: linux dd <ENTER>.

 o  Use the function keys listed below for more information.




[F1-Main] [F2-General] [F3-Expert] [F4-Kernel] [F5-Rescue]

boot:

At the boot prompt, enter linux text expert mem=24M
boot: linux text expert mem=24M

Welcome to Red Hat Linux:

Red Hat Linux (C) 2000 Red Hat, Inc.                                     Welcome
              |----------------| Red Hat Linux |-----------------|
              |                                                  |
              | Welcome to Red Hat Linux!                        |
              |                                                  |
              | This installation process is outlined in detail  |
              | in the Official Red Hat Linux Installation       |
              | Guide available from Red Hat Software.  If you   |
              | have access to this manual, you should read the  |
              | installation section before continuing.          |
              |                                                  |
              | If you have purchased Official Red Hat Linux,    |
              | be sure to register your purchase through our    |
              | web site, http://www.redhat.com/.                |
              |                                                  |
              |          |--|                   |----|           |
              |          |OK|                   |BACK|           |
              |          |--|                   |----|           |
              |                                                  |
              |--------------------------------------------------|

  <Tab>/<Alt-Tab> between elements   |  <Space> selects   |  <F12> next screen
-> "OK"

Red Hat Linux (C) 2000 Red Hat, Inc.                           Installation Type
              |--------------| Installation Type |---------------|
              |                                                  |
              | What type of system would you like to install?   |
              |                                                  |
              |          Install GNOME Workstation               |
              |          Install KDE Workstation                 |
              |          Install Server System                   |
              |          Install Custom System                   |
              |          Upgrade Existing Installation           |
              |                                                  |
              |          |--|                   |----|           |
              |          |OK|                   |BACK|           |
              |          |--|                   |----|           |
              |                                                  |
              |--------------------------------------------------|

  <Tab>/<Alt-Tab> between elements   |  <Space> selects   |  <F12> next screen
-> "Install Custom System"

Red Hat Linux (C) 2000 Red Hat, Inc.                                   Partition
            |--------------------| Disk Setup |---------------------|
            |                                                       |
            | Disk Druid is a tool for partitioning and setting     |
            | up mount points.  It is designed to be easier to use  |
            | than Linux's traditional disk partitioning software,  |
            | fdisk, as well as more powerful.  However, there are  |
            | some cases where fdisk may be preferred.              |
            |                                                       |
            | Which tool would you like to use?                     |
            |                                                       |
            |    |------------|       |-------|        |------|     |
            |    | Disk Druid |       | fdisk |        | Back |     |
            |    |------------|       |-------|        |------|     |
            |                                                       |
            |-------------------------------------------------------|

  <Tab>/<Alt-Tab> between elements   |  <Space> selects   |  <F12> next screen
-> "fdisk"

Red Hat Linux (C) 2000 Red Hat, Inc.                          Manually Partition
        |-----------------------| Disk Setup |------------------------|
        |                                                             |
        | To install Red  Hat Linux, you must have at leaset one      |
        | partition of 150MB dedicated to Linux.  We suggest placing  |
        | that partition on one of the first two hard drives in your  |
        | system so you can boot into Linux with LILO.                |
        |                                                             |
        |                  /dev/sda - Compaq M1606S                   |
        |                                                             |
        |      |------|            |------|            |------|       |
        |      | Done |            | Edit |            | Back |       |
        |      |------|            |------|            |------|       |
        |                                                             |
        |-------------------------------------------------------------|

  <Tab>/<Alt-Tab> between elements   |  <Space> selects   |  <F12> next screen
-> "Edit"

Command (m for help):p

Disk /tmp/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 1001 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/tmp/sda3             1        32     32752   12  Compaq diagnostics

Command (m for help):n
Command action
   e   extended
   p   primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (33-1001, default 33): Press ENTER for default
Using default value 33
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (33-1001, default 1001): +30M

Command (m for help): p

Disk /tmp/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 1001 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/tmp/sda1            33        63     31744   83  Linux
/tmp/sda3             1        32     32752   12  Compaq diagnostics

Command (m for help):a
Partition number (1-4): 1

Command (m for help): p

Disk /tmp/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 1001 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/tmp/sda1 *          33        63     31744   83  Linux
/tmp/sda3             1        32     32752   12  Compaq diagnostics

Command (m for help):n
Command action
   e   extended
   p   primary partition (1-4)
e
Partition number (1-4): 2
First cylinder (64-1001, default 64): Press ENTER for default
Using default value 64
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (64-1001, default 1001): Press ENTER for default
Using default value 1001

Command (m for help): p

Disk /tmp/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 1001 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/tmp/sda1 *          33        63     31744   83  Linux
/tmp/sda2            64      1001    960512    5  Extended
/tmp/sda3             1        32     32752   12  Compaq diagnostics

Command (m for help):n
Command action
   l   logical (5 or over)
   p   primary partition (1-4)
l
First cylinder (64-1001, default 64): Press ENTER for default
Using default value 64
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (64-1001, default 1001): +200M

Command (m for help): p

Disk /tmp/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 1001 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/tmp/sda1 *          33        63     31744   83  Linux
/tmp/sda2            64      1001    960512    5  Extended
/tmp/sda3             1        32     32752   12  Compaq diagnostics
/tmp/sda5            64       264    205808   83  Linux

Command (m for help):t
Partition number (1-5): 5
Hex code (type L to list codes): 82
Changed system type of partition 5 to 82 (Linux swap)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /tmp/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 1001 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/tmp/sda1 *          33        63     31744   83  Linux
/tmp/sda2            64      1001    960512    5  Extended
/tmp/sda3             1        32     32752   12  Compaq diagnostics
/tmp/sda5            64       264    205808   82  Linux swap

Command (m for help):n
Command action
   l   logical (5 or over)
   p   primary partition (1-4)
l
First cylinder (265-1001, default 265): Press ENTER for default
Using default value 265
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (265-1001, default 1001): Press ENTER for default
Using default value 1001

Command (m for help): p

Disk /tmp/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 1001 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/tmp/sda1 *          33        63     31744   83  Linux
/tmp/sda2            64      1001    960512    5  Extended
/tmp/sda3             1        32     32752   12  Compaq diagnostics
/tmp/sda5            64       264    205808   82  Linux swap
/tmp/sda6           265      1001    754672   83  Linux


Command (m for help):w
The partition table has been altered!
...

Red Hat Linux (C) 2000 Red Hat, Inc.                          Manually Partition
        |-----------------------| Disk Setup |------------------------|
        |                                                             |
        | To install Red  Hat Linux, you must have at leaset one      |
        | partition of 150MB dedicated to Linux.  We suggest placing  |
        | that partition on one of the first two hard drives in your  |
        | system so you can boot into Linux with LILO.                |
        |                                                             |
        |                  /dev/sda - Compaq M1606S                   |
        |                                                             |
        |      |------|            |------|            |------|       |
        |      | Done |            | Edit |            | Back |       |
        |      |------|            |------|            |------|       |
        |                                                             |
        |-------------------------------------------------------------|

  <Tab>/<Alt-Tab> between elements   |  <Space> selects   |  <F12> next screen
-> "Done"

Red Hat Linux (C) 2000 Red Hat, Inc.                                   Partition
|-------------------------| Current Disk Partitions |--------------------------|
|    Mount Point          Device     Requested   Actual         Type           |
|                          sda1          31M       31M      Linux native       |
|                          sda3          31M       31M      Compaq Setup       |
|                          sda5         200M      200M      Linux swap         |
|                          sda6         736M      736M      Linux native       |
|                                                                              |
| Drive Summaries                                                              |
|   Drive      Geom [C/H/S]      Total    Used    Free                         |
|    sda      [ 1001/ 64/32]     1001M   1001M      1M      [##########]       |
|                                                                              |
|          |------|                   |----|                  |------|         |
|          | Edit |                   | Ok |                  | Back |         |
|          |------|                   |----|                  |------|         |
|                                                                              |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
                  F3-Edit                 F12-Ok   v 1.00

Specify mount points for each of the Linux partitions:
Red Hat Linux (C) 2000 Red Hat, Inc.                                   Partition
|-------------------------| Current Disk Partitions |--------------------------|
|    Mount Point          Device     Requested   Actual         Type           |
|    /boot                 sda1          31M       31M      Linux native       |
|                          sda3          31M       31M      Compaq Setup       |
|                          sda5         200M      200M      Linux swap         |
|    /                     sda6         736M      736M      Linux native       |
|                                                                              |
| Drive Summaries                                                              |
|   Drive      Geom [C/H/S]      Total    Used    Free                         |
|    sda      [ 1001/ 64/32]     1001M   1001M      1M      [##########]       |
|                                                                              |
|          |------|                   |----|                  |------|         |
|          | Edit |                   | Ok |                  | Back |         |
|          |------|                   |----|                  |------|         |
|                                                                              |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
                  F3-Edit                 F12-Ok   v 1.00
-> "Ok"

Red Hat Linux (C) 2000 Red Hat, Inc.                                        Swap
              |-----------------| Low Memory |------------------|
              |                                                 |
              | As you don't have much memory in this machine,  |
              | we need to turn on swap space immediately. To   |
              | do this we'll have to write your new partition  |
              | table to the disk immediately. Is that okay?    |
              |                                                 |
              |         |-----|                 |----|          |
              |         | Yes |                 | No |          |
              |         |-----|                 |----|          |
              |                                                 |
              |-------------------------------------------------|

  <Tab>/<Alt-Tab> between elements   |  <Space> selects   |  <F12> next screen
-> "Yes"



Filesystem Formatting:

LILO Configuration:

Hostname Setup:

Mouse Configuration:

Time Zone Setup:

Root Password:

User Account Setup:



Authentication:

Package Groups:

X Configuration:

Installation Begins:

Boot Disk:

Xconfigurator 4.3.5:

Installation Complete:
Red Hat Linux (C) 2000 Red Hat, Inc.                       Installation Complete

                                    Complete:

                Congratulations, installation is complete.

                Press return to reboot, and be sure to remove
                your boot medium as the system reboots, or your
                system will return to the install. For information
                on fixes which are available for this release
                of Red Hat Linux, consult the Errata available
                from http://www.redhat.com/errata.

                Information on configuring and using your red
                Hat Linux system is contained in the Red Hat
                Linux manuals.
                                     "OK"

-> "OK"
install exited abnormally -- received signal 11
sending termination signals...done
sending kill signals...done
disabling swap...
        /tmp/swap/sda5
unmounting filesystems...
        /mnt/runtime
        /dev/pts
        /proc
you may safely reboot your system

"Reboot"
24576 KB Detected

COMPAQ System BIOS - E15 (08/17/1998)
Copyright 1982,1998 Compaq Computer Corporation. All rights reserved.


Processor running at 150 MHz

SCSI Device Detected - System Board, SCSI ID 0: COMPAQ   M1606S
SCSI Device Detected - System Board, SCSI ID 5: COMPAQ   CRD-254V
SCSI Device Detected - System Board, SCSI ID 6: ARCHIVE  4326XX 27871-XXX

Press  "F10" key for System Partition Utilities

Missing operating system

Boot disk worked ok. Probably MBR is corrupt, will run "fdisk /mbr" from Win95 boot disk.
fdisk /mbr didn't work, will check that /boot is marked active.
/boot is marked active - will put LILO out again on /boot.
Check /etc/lilo.conf, found that the following line is incorrect
boot=/dev/sda6
This line should read
boot=/dev/sda1
Changed the line and reran /sbin/lilo -v.
System now came up on the hard drive (LILO:)

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