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Pre Install Checklist for Fermi Red Hat V5.0.2
You'll need to acquire or know these items before installing Fermi Red Hat Linux on
your system.
1. Fermi Red Hat Install floppy V5.0.2 from the PREP counter at FCC3W or from
Yolanda at WH8NW. This is a specially modified install floppy for Fermi
network installations.
2. What type of video card you have. (make, model, and amount of memory it has.)
3. What make and model ethernet card you have.
3a. Disable PnP on your card if it is a PnP card.
Use a DOS disk to boot your system, after this is accomplished
then remove the DOS floppy and insert the floppy included with your
ethernet card. If you have a 3Com card there should be an
bat file called pnpdsabl. Run this program to disable the
PnP capability of your card.
3b. Verify that the correct port is activated, either BNC, AUI
or UTP.
On my 3Com 3c509 floppy I have a executable called 3c5x9cfg.exe.
Running this executable enable me to select the port on the back
of the card. The floppy supplied with your ethernet card should
should have something similiar.
4. What is the hardware address of the ethernet card. This is
often referred to as the MAC address and is needed to obtain your IP address
from the Network Group.
To get this you will need to use the Fermi Red Hat Install floppy
obtained from FSS. Boot up to step 6 of the installation
instructions below and type [alt][clt][F4].
From this screen you will be able to find the address. The number loOks
something like 00:60:08:3e:34:ba It will be in one of the lines that begin
with the the name of the ethernet device "eth0".
5. What are you going to name your machine? You need to tell the
Network Group this before they can assign you an IP address.
6. Obtain an IP address from Networking Group.
7. The network's Netmask (supplied by Networking with IP address)
8. The network's Default Route (supplied by Networking with IP address)
9. If this machine will be "dual boot" Then you will need to decide which boot manager you will be installing.