Installing Linux Full Version

Currently, notebook computers are increasingly becoming the standard office configuration for engineers and technicians. With the gradual deepening of the Linux operating system, many Linux users hope to run the Linux operating system on their laptops so that they can be used and studied anytime, anywhere.

Linux installation and setup steps on a desktop in a laptop is basically the same, according to the author's experience, difficult place usually two things: One is to configure the graphics window system, due to the design of the laptop The speciality, the graphics card is often integrated with the motherboard and other components, it is not easy to automatically identify and configure during the installation process; the second is the PCMCIA card as a network adapter: Ethernet card and Modem dial-up card. This article focuses on these two aspects in the following sections. Since Linux has been introduced on desktops, this article assumes that the reader already has experience installing Linux on a desktop and has installed the basic Linux system on his laptop. Complete (command line interface without network interface).

as a piece of advice, in the familiar process of using a Linux system, we must develop the habit of frequent reference random help file, which is not only a very good habit, but also very necessary as a means, in the following The contents of the help documentation are quoted in the text. By the way, I recommend two document resources: one is on the installation CD, and the help file is installed in the directory /usr/doc/Howto/when you select "Documentation" during installation. From here you can find most of the problems. solution; the second is "Linux documentation project (Linux documentation project)" on the Internet, which is located at URL: http: //metalab.unc.edu/mdw/index.html

graphical window system (X)
As you know, Linux uses a graphics window system called XFree86 as its own graphical interface (hereafter referred to as X), its help documentation can be found in the following location: /usr/doc/HOWTO/xfree86-HOWTO.

the document is more common to install XFree86 Server's X Window setup documentation. Further, the following documents:

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/Readme.type provide documentation related settings for different types of cards, where the "type" indicates the type of card, for example: Readme. Mach64, Readme.S3, etc. You need to refer to the contents of these two documents frequently when doing X configuration.

a. Determining the type of card used
1. /usr /X11 /bin /SuperProbe command detects the type of notebook computers with graphics (and typically use the output of this command later herein with reference installations). If the inspection is ridiculous, then you need to download the new XFree86 service.

2. If the system is installed Windows 98, may try to find the card type under Windows 98, and then using the /usr /X11 /bin using the detected /xf86config when configuring parameters.

Example: If your laptop has been installed Windows 98, open the control panel system → → → Device Manager display adapter, you can see the type of graphics used in the laptop, such as Trident Cyber9525DVD PCI /AGP (W98.22). The next thing to do is to find the driver for the graphics card provided by the company under Linux, download and install it.

Incidentally, as to how to have installed to install Linux on a Windows 98-based notebook, operating exactly the same way with the desktop.

II. If the download XFree86
Previous results indicate that the video card has been identified, you can skip two, three, four steps. However, if the above two methods still can't make the graphics window system run beautifully, the more effective way is to upgrade your XFree86 package. When I configured Linux on several laptops such as Compaq Armada 1580, Toshiba Satellite 4030 CDT, and Dell Latitude, I finally solved it by upgrading XFree86. No way, the Linux operating system often has to face the problem of peripheral support. Fortunately, with the increasing influence of Linux, many companies now include drivers for Linux when they provide drivers.

download the latest XFree86 upgrade package (current version is 4.0, it is recommended to use version 3.3.6), can go to the following URL:

ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub /xxx/Linux/source/constrib.tgz

ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/xxx/Linux/source/xfree.src1.tgz

ftp: //ftp .xfree86.org /pub /xxx /Linux /source /xfree.src2.tgz

ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/xxx/Linux/source/xfree.src3.tgz

or download the compiled binaries:

ftp: //ftp.xfree86/org/pub/xxx/Linux/binary/

maybe you will feel on top of the site seems slow, blue studio also provides image download:

http://studio.openunix.org/pub/xfree86/4.0/source/

three configuration and unravel
downloaded binary RPM using rpm -i command packet may be directly mounted, for example:
-i
#rpm
course so mounted
Successful words Very lucky. However, for some Linux distributions, more often you need to download the source files and compile the source files. To compile the development software package, you can use the rpm -i command to install from the system installation CD as prompted.

general procedure is as follows:

1. extract the source files:

#gzip -dc * .tgz | tar xvf -

2. Press said before Help documentation required to do the necessary to modify the configuration.

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