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-Linux Installation on an Acer !LapTop HOWTO
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-!!!Linux Installation on an Acer !LapTop HOWTO
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-!!Harish Thampi S, harish.thampi@wipro.com1., 2001-01-08
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-'' This document describes how to install Linux on a Acer !LapTop and
-Various issues related to this. The reader is expected to have some
-knowledge about Linux Installation.''
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-!!1. Introduction
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-*1.1 Preface
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-*1.2 Copyright
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-*1.3 Disclaimer
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-*1.4 Feedback
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-!!2. The Procedure
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-*2.1 Introduction
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-*2.2 Preparing the Disk
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-*2.3 Installation
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-*2.4 Booting the Machine
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-*2.5 Configuring X
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-*2.6 Linmodem Source
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-!!3. Conclusion
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-*3.1 Useful Links
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-!!1. Introduction
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-!!1.1 Preface
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-This is version 1.0 of this document. We faced a lot of problems while
-installing Linux on a Acer !LapTop. We thought this information might be
-useful to the Linux community.
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-This information is intended for Linux on the Intel platform. Much of
-this information may be applicable to Linux on other processors, but We
-have no first-hand experience or information about this.
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-This document may be outdated or some other document on this topic may
-be available. Please check the
-the
-Linux Documentation Project homepage
-to see if any other documents are available on this.
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-!!1.2 Copyright
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-''Copyright is a source of much and continuous debate on the
-LDP mailing list. For more in depth information please consult
-the Manifesto at the ''
-!LinuxDoc site.
-''The purpose of having a license is to allow appropriate distribution.
-You can use any license that meets the Manifesto.
-What follows is a boilerplate licence.''
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-Copyright (c) 2001 by Harish Thampi S.
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-Please freely copy and distribute (sell or give away) this document in
-any format. It's requested that corrections and/or comments be forwarded
-to the document maintainer. You may create a derivative work and distribute
-it provided that you:
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-*Send your derivative work (in the most suitable format such as
-sgml) to the LDP (Linux Documentation Project) or the like for posting
-on the Internet. If not the LDP, then let the LDP know where it is
-available.
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-*License the derivative work with this same license or use GPL.
-Include a copyright notice and at least a pointer to the license used.
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-*Give due credit to previous authors and major contributors.
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-If you're considering making a derived work other than a translation,
-it's requested that you discuss your plans with the current maintainer.
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-!!1.3 Disclaimer
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-Use the information in this document at your own risk. I disavow any
-potential liability for the contents of this document. Use of the
-concepts, examples, and/or other content of this document is entirely
-at your own risk.
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-All copyrights are owned by their owners, unless specifically noted
-otherwise. Use of a term in this document should not be regarded as
-affecting the validity of any trademark or service mark.
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-Naming of particular products or brands should not be seen as endorsements.
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-You are strongly recommended to take a backup of your system before
-major installation and backups at regular intervals.
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-!!1.4 Feedback
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-We welcome any feedback, good or bad, on the content of this document.
-We have done our best to ensure that the instructions and information
-herein are accurate and reliable. Please let us know if you find any
-errors or omissions.
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-Send comments, corrections and questions to the author at
-harish.thampi@wipro.com.
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-!!2. The Procedure
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-!!2.1 Introduction
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-This document for installing Linux on a !LapTop (Acer !TravelMate 345T)
-It comprises of the general difficulties you can run into while trying
-an install on an Acer !TravelMate 345T. I have a hand on experience only
-on Acer !TravelMate 345T. This may be applicable to other Models also.
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-This document assumes some basic familiarity with concepts of Linux
-system administration. For example, you should know about directories
-and filesystems.
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-!!2.2 Preparing the Disk
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-The document specifically tells about the installation of Linux on a
-Laptop along with Windows 98.
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-First you should partition the disk according to your choice. You may
-face problems when you want a dual boot machine. That is you have Windows
-on /dev/hda1 and Linux '/' on /dev/hda2
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-I faced some strange problem
here. Initially I had a 5.3 GB disk on which
-Windows 98 was installed and drive c: constituted the entire 5.3GB.
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-I wanted to repartition the disk to put Linux on to it. So I booted with
-a !RedHat CD and partitioned the disk as follows.
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-/dev/hda1 3 GB For Windows 98
-/dev/hda2 200 MB For Linux /
-/dev/hda3 128 MB For Swap
-/dev/hda4 2 GB Extended
-/dev/hda5 1GB /usr
-/dev/hda6 1GB /home1
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-After installation of Linux, I found that Windows 98 was still running
-fine on /dev/hda1. Even more interesting fact is that Windows is able
-to see that entire 5.3 GB of the disk. I doubted that this could lead
-to corruption of data and had no other way except formatting and start
-again. Any feedback on this issue is welcome. Any links or references
-are also welcome.
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-__Note:__ When you list the partitions with a dos fdisk, the extended partition
-made with Linux fdisk is shown as an EXT DOS partition. Later I
-changed the type of Extended partition to Extended Linux. Still
-Windows was able to see the entire 5.3 GB of the disk.
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-I have put /dev/hda2 as the '/' partition and put /dev/hda5 as '/usr'.
-This approach will help in separating the files that change frequently
-from those that doesn't. This is also useful for backup purposes.
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-!!2.3 Installation
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-Installation of !RedHat Linux on a Laptop is pretty easy. This is almost
-like installing Linux on a PC. The only problem we faced was that it was
-not possible to install Linux from the !RedHat CD in any mode other than
-'text mode'. Trying to install Linux on any other mode other than 'text'
-will cause the installation to hang.
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-!!2.4 Booting the Machine
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-The Acer !LapTop had some PCMICA devices. While booting the !LapTop, the
-machine would hang looking for more pcmcia devices. If you face this
-problem, you need to reboot the machine with the boot floppy and edit the
-file /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia and set PCIC_OPTS="do_scan=". The next time you
-reboot the machine, it should boot up with the newly installed Linux.
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-!!2.5 Configuring X
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-This is problem for which I was not able to find an answer. After booting
-up the machine, I tried to configure X using xf86config.
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-The Acer !LapTop had an 800x600 LCD panel. I had selected S-VGA and 800x600
-resolution. When I tried starting X, I found that the mode is being
-taken as 320x200. The boot message says that it is the built-in mode. Any
-Pointers to this are welcome. The output of !SuperProbe was:
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-First video: Super-VGA
-Chipset: Trident (chipset unknown) (PCI Probed)
-Signature data: 95251023 (please report)
-Memory: 2048 Kbytes
-RAMDAC: Sierra SC1148{2,3,4} 15-bit or SC1148{5,7,9} 15/16-bit !HiColor
-(with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode))
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-!!2.6 Linmodem Source
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-The Laptop had a softmodem (Linmodem). The driver for this modem is not
-given in the !RedHat distribution. Lucent is providing the driver for
-this modem in 'object' form. The source for this driver is not available.
-It will be good if the Linux community can provide the source for the
-Linmodem. The difficulty with the Lucent Linmodem driver is that, the driver
-is written for Linux 2.2.12 Kernel. This is one of the reason why the source
-code for Linmodem would be considered a great contribution. I have listed
-some links that could proove to be useful in this venture.
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-!!3. Conclusion
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-This document has covered the problems faced during the installation of
-Linux on a Laptop. The document may not be complete any feedback or
-contribution towards this will be appreciated. The main area on which the
-Linux community can work is in solving out problems in configuring X
-and getting the source code for the Linmodem driver.
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-Please mail your contributions for this document to
-harish.thampi@wipro.com
-so that I can come up with the next version of this document.
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-!!3.1 Useful Links
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-http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-08/lw-08-linmodem.html
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-http://www.linmodems.org/
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-http://www.close.u-net.com/
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-http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/
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