RE: scripted Linux RT patch install

Glad it did the job for you.

I did set the script up assuming a Pentium class processor and an IDE drive.
Didn't consider any of the other possibilities.

I have read an article about how nice KDE is and Mat also recommends it.
Guess I will try downloading it and giving it a go.


Tim
[Denver, CO]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Scalione [mailto:scalione@...]
> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 1999 4:13 PM
> To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] scripted Linux RT patch install
>
>
> From: William Scalione <scalione@...>
>
> Tim Goldstein wrote:
> >
> > From: "Tim Goldstein" <timg@...>
> >
> > I think I just have gotten a scripted installation to apply the
> real time
> > patch to a workstation installation of Linux 5.2 worked out.
> >
> > The way it is supposed to work is as follows:
> > 1 - You install Redhat 5.2 and select the workstation installation which
> > will automate most of getting Linux up and running.
> > 2 - You take the zip file I am putting together and on a Win9x or WinNT
> > machine unzip the file to a floppy
> > 3 - You start up your Linux machine, log in as root and start
> Xwindows with
> > the startx command
> > 4 - You insert your RedHat CD#1 and the floppy from step 2 and mount the
> > floppy with the command:
> > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> > 5 - you switch to the floppy with cd /mnt/floppy and then enter
> > ./setuprt.run
> > 6 - You will be presented with the xconfig screen and if you
> are adventurous
> > you can go through and change any settings you want, if a
> little more timid
> > just click Save & Exit. At the next prompt click OK
> > 7 - Take a break while everything compiles
> > 8 - LILO is configured with a setting that is set for a system with 32mb
> > ram. You will be automatically taken to an emac (editor
> program) and if you
> > system has a different amount of memory find the line that says:
> > append="mem=31m"
> > now change the 31 to be 1 less than the amount of memory you
> have installed
> > 9 - Reboot with:
> > shutdown -r now
> > Don't forget to take out the floppy or the CD or you will not
> get rebooted.
> > 10 - To verify the setup hit the tab key at the LILO: prompt
> you should see
> > 2 entries - rtlinux and linux. Enter rtlinux and hit the enter
> key to boot
> > your new kernel.
> >
> > The rtlinux kernel will boot by default. Step 10 is just so you
> can see that
> > it is really there.
> >
> > Now for the big question????
> > Who wants to be the first to give this a try??
> > I have tried it on 2 different systems and it works like a charm.
> >
>
>
> Tim;
>
> Don't know if I am the first to try it but it worked great for me. One
> minor
> problem I had was, since I am using a SCSI hard disk I needed to edit
> the lilo.conf
> file from hda5 to sda6. Did not see it at first and had the dreaded
> kernal panic
> message on first reboot. Booted with floppy, edited lilo.conf, ran lilo
> and rebooted
> and all seems fine.
>
> I was running Red hat 6.0 with KDE desktop but when I reinstalled 5.2 as
> a workstation
> it erased my downloaded copy of EMC, so I need to get the modem working
> again and
> download a new copy. I ran version 6 (bought it before I knew I needed
> 5.2) for
> about 3 weeks and feel somewhat comfortable with that version since it
> loads KDE,
> Gnome and many more user friendly programs than 5.2. The desktops that
> come with 5.2
> are nowhere as good as KDE. Another level confuses the $&#& out of me.
>
> Anyway thanks for the script.
>
>
> Bill