Program Assignment One, CSCI 523, Advanced Operating Systems

Things to configure the the CS Systems Lab

Set up Desktop with Terminal Icon

  1. Click on start button -> System -> Terminal
  2. Right click on Terminal and select "copy to desktop"

Set up Printer
  1. Login in as root
  2. edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf by adding comment flag "#" to any
     security line.
  3. http://127.0.0.1:631
  4. Add printer with lpd://192.168.100.3/raw configuration.

Read Hat Kernel Install

  1. yum install kernel-devel
  2. cd /usr/src/kernels/2.6....
  3. download kernel image...

Load and recompile the Linux kernel

  1. Login as root
  2. cd /usr/src/
  3. Download the 40MB kernel archive from <a href="http://www.kernel.org/">
     the official kernel source</a> (Takes 15-60 mins)
  4. Use bunzip2 to uncompress the archive linux-2.6.19.2.tar.bz.
     It should expand to just under 250MB. (Takes 3-6 mins)
  5. Use tar -xf linux-2.6.19.2.tar to un-archive Linux into its source tree.
  Or use one command for steps 4 & 5: bunzip2 linux-2.6.19.2.tar.bz | tar -xf -
  6. Create a simple symbolic link like:
     ln -s linux-2.6.19.2 lin
  7. cd lin
  8. Invoke "make xconfig" to create the .config file. Adjust a parameter such
     as CPU type.
  9. Invoke "make" or "make > /dev/null" to compile the kernel. (Takes 15-60 mins)
 10. make modules_install to copy device driver modules over to /lib/modules/2.6.19.2/
 11. Move and rename the kernel image /usr/src/lin/arch/i386/boot/bzImage to
     /boot/vmlinuz01.
 12. Add menu option to Grub to boot vmlinux01.
 13. Reboot, select vmlinuz01 and cross your fingers...

No GUI boot

  1. Login as root  
  2. vi /etc/inittab
  4. Switch the default run level on line 20 from level 5 to level 3 by chganging:
     id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault:

How To Compile A Kernel - The Fedora Way
http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_fedora
How To Compile A Kernel - The Ubuntu Way
http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_ubuntu


1. Download kernel source..
cd /usr/src
wget
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/source/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.src.rpm

rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.src.rpm

2.  Find the kernel source.  I think its linux 2.6.18.src.rpm and extract
it to usr/src

3. Go to usr/src/ linux-2.6.18

4.  run make mrproper but I don't think its necessary

5.  run make oldconfig.  I believe this copies your current .config file to
this directory.

6. Change the Makefile  line EXTRAVERSION = -custom-2.6.18.2 or something
else

7. make install

8. make modules_install
9. make install
10. restart and select your new kernel at boot

And that's it.  You may have to modify /boot/grub/meun.lst or
/boot/grub/grub.conf to make the new kernel boot first