HP 7400 Software Installation Manual

Marketing Compaq Computer Corporation Contents What is Linux?..............................................3 Key Features..................................................3 Linux Advantages/Disadvantages................4 Linux Availability.........................................5 Compaq’s ...

2 0206-0799-A Notice The information in this publication is subject to change without notice and is provided “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE ENTIRE RISK ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS INFORMATION REMAINS WITH RECIPIENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL COMPAQ BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, ...

3 0206-0799-A What is Linux? Since its inception in the early nineties, Unix-based Linux has been highly visible in the academic and research community, used primarily for e-mail, web servers and bulletin boards. With the source code and the operating system freely available over the Internet and po ...

4 0206-0799-A § Support for networking: - TCP/IP networking, including FTP, telnet, NFS, etc. - Netware client and server - Many networking protocols: the base protocols available in the latest development kernels include TCP, IPv4, IPv6, AX.25, X.25, IPX, DDP (Appletalk), Netrom, and others. S ...

5 0206-0799-A Minimal Hardware Requirements The Linux kernel’s small size and its efficient memory management contribute to Linux’s low hardware requirements. If run in a text-based mode, Linux requires less processing power for graphics, unless X-Windows or a Graphical User Interface (GUI) is u ...

6 0206-0799-A TABLE 1 – SUMMARY OF LINUX DRIVERS Linux Armada 7400 & 7800 RedHat and SUSE Drivers Video driver - S3 ViRGE/MX www.xfree86.org, www.redhat.com, www.suse.com Audio driver – ESS-1879 www.4front-tech.com Setup & Diagnostics http://www.compaq.com/support/files/portables/us/index.html Ch ...

7 0206-0799-A A third option is to partition the hard disk during Linux setup. Both Linux distributions have options during installation to do manual partitioning. In this case the CSP partition can be recognized by its type, 0x12. Should the CSP partition be accidentally deleted then it can be rest ...

8 0206-0799-A The IBM 14GB hard drive (model DCYA-214000) has 27,609,120 sectors. We use the formula above to solve for cylinders. Set LBA=27609120, number_of_heads=240(from the BIOS translation), head=239(heads are numbered 0 to 239), number_of_sectors=63, sector=63(sectors are numbered 1 to 63). S ...

9 0206-0799-A provides is for Microsoft based operating systems. Older 7400 and 7800 models with 300 MHz or slower processors use a 33.6Kbps controller based modem which uses the standard Hayes commands and is supported by Linux. The internal modem defaults to COM3 (0x3F8). Linux expects the COM por ...

10 0206-0799-A • To hot swap a CD-ROM and floppy drive, the system must have been booted with the CD-ROM on the notebook MultiBay so that Linux will detect the presence of a slave device (CD-ROM) on the primary IDE channel. The CD- ROM and floppy can then be hot swapped as long as either device is ...