Linux on Compaq Contura 410C

Info

CPU

i486DX2/50MHz

ram

4MB original plus 16MB tird party, total 20MB

HD

350MB Original

Video

From 640×480VGA/262,000 up to 1,024×768/256

PCMCIA

TypeIII×1 or TypeII/I×2

External media

1.44MB Floppy

Network

3Com XXX (3C589D) over PCMCIA

Misc.

APM, Modem and a Dead Bios batery*

/proc/cpuinfo

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 4
model           : 3
model name      : 486 DX/2
stepping        : 5
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
sep_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme
bogomips        : 24.88

lspci -vv

lsusb -vv

Distro

Slackware

Basic install size is perfect. But had problems with PCMCIA

OpenBSD

Best network install *EVER*. Perfect for a install from floppies... uses only ONE. Install size is perfect. But, I had trouble running SVGAlib in BSD...

Debian

The floppy install sucks. wasted one night passing images to a floppy on the desktop and reading it on the notebook. Did not find my network card when i was asked to install modules, but found it later after the first boot.

Debian it was

Installed with the floppies... very funny burning more then 25 disk...

ignore the modules part, it will not work anyway

after boot: login as root
ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.12 netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig eth0 up
route add default gw 192.168.0.1
vi /etc/resolv.conf

Selected to install over FTP

From task select i choose: Conventional Unix server, C and C++, Python... Then i spend 1h deselecting every option the install tells me that i had to install because of something requiring xlibs. I deselected nearly 200times xlibs and xcomons!!!!

Module                  Size  Used by
3c589_cs                8544   1
ds                      6400   2  [3c589_cs]
i82365                 22672   2
pcmcia_core            45824   0  [3c589_cs ds i82365]
vfat                    9428   0  (unused)
af_packet               6152   0  (unused)
unix                   11352   3  (autoclean)

Usability

What should be done in every system...

gcb-home_cleaner-for_debian.sh:
#network (no "auto" cuz it's pcmcia) echo "iface eth0 inet static" >> /etc/network/interfaces echo " address 192.168.0.5" >> /etc/network/interfaces echo " netmask 255.255.255.0" >> /etc/network/interfaces echo " gateway 192.168.0.1" >> /etc/network/interfaces echo " #up ajuste relogio com ntdp" >> /etc/network/interfaces #profile echo "#Alias" >> /etc/profile echo "alias l=\"ls -lah --color=tty --\"" >> /etc/profile echo "alias e=\"exit\"" >> /etc/profile echo "alias p=\"ps aux\"" >> /etc/profile echo "alias pw=\"ps auxw\"" >> /etc/profile echo "alias sr=\"screen -rD\"" >> /etc/profile #rc.local echo "#! /bin/sh" > /etc/init.d/local echo "#rdate -s clock-1.cs.cmu.edu && hwclock --systohc" >> /etc/init.d/local echo "setterm -blank 0" >> /etc/init.d/local chmod +x /etc/init.d/local update-rc.d local start 80 2 3 4 5 .

Caveats

Dead Bios Batery. Yes, the machine is OLD, so, now i'm stuck in 2000 acording to the rtc. I have two options, or i let the time at 2000 and receive uncountable erros about some file being from the future, or i set the time afte boot, but receive every time: /dev/hda2 has gone 1872 days without being checked, check forced.

/etc/network/interfaces gets processed before /etc/init.d/pcmcia. DEBIAN SUCKS!

TO BE CONTINUED...

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