40.54 Dell Optiplex GX260 (Uramys1)

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 was installed from a Debian CD-ROM (28 Nov 2002). This desktop machine is to be used as a server for CVS, apache, and other services. The NIC (e1000) was not supported in the default 2.4.18 kernel. A kernel-image-2.4.20-pre11 was compiled for the machine. Lilo was replaced by grub and

The on-board video is run using vesa because XFree86 4.2.1 does not have a driver for the 82845G AGP. See Festival for further details.

40.54.1 Uramys1 Specification

Key Value
CPU Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
BogoMIPS 4771
RAM 512MB
Disk 80GB (/dev/hda)
6GB (/dev/hda5) ext2 root
2GB (/dev/hda6) swap
40GB (/dev/hda7) ext2
30GB (/dev/hda7) ext2
DVD/CDRW (/dev/hdc)
NIC 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller Intel PRO/1000 (e1000)
Video Intel 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset (i810)
Audio Intel 82801DB AC’97 (i810_audio)

The lspci command gives:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2560 (rev 01)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2562 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24c2 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24c4 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24c7 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24cd (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82820 820 (Camino 2) Chipset PCI (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24c0 (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24cb (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24c3 (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24c5 (rev 01)
01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 100e (rev 02)

40.54.2 Uramys1 Install

Spec Details
Hostname uramys1
Address 125.83.88.13
Netmask 255.255.255.0
Broadcast optional
Gateway 125.83.88.177
DNS 183.44.72.1
Domain togaware.com

40.54.3 Install Kernel 2.4.20

At the time of installing the NIC card (e10000) was not supported by the available Debian kernels. Kernel 2.4.20 fixed this. A kernel was compiled from source and patched up to 2.4.20-pre11. The default (i.e., starting from no file) was the starting point. Below is recorded the specific configurations added.

  # cd /usr/src
  # wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.19.tar.gz
  # wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/testing/patch-2.4.20-pre11.gz
  # tar zxvf linux-2.4.19.tar.gz
  # cd linux-2.4.19
  # gzip -dc ../patch-2.4.20-pre11.gz | patch -p1 -N -F4
  # make menuconfig
    Processor type and features
        Processor family
            CONFIG_MPENTIUM4=y
    General
            CONFIG_APM=y
            CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y
            CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y
            CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK=y
            CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y
    Block devices
        RAM disk support
            CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
        Initial RAM disk (initrd) support
            CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
    Network device support
        Ethernet (1000 Mbit)
            CONFIG_E1000=y
    Sound
            CONFIG_SOUND_ICH=y
  # make-kpkg clean
  # make-kpkg --append-to-version -gjw --revision sis01
              --initrd kernel_image
  # cd .. 
  # wajig install kernel-image-2.4.19-gjw_sis01_i386.deb

This works just fine and all standard drivers (CDROM and NFS) were included by default and the e1000 support included in the kernal. The resulting kernel is quite a bit smaller that the kernels supporting lots of hardware (700K initrd cf 2.4MB and 56K modules cf 20MB)!



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