I have tested these instructions on my i386 system (AMD
Athlon XP 1600+ processor). I started with a fresh, clean, base
installation of Woody 3.0 r0. I then installed The X Window
System (core) and the desktop (Gnome and KDE) using
tasksel.
All the work is done from the command-line. You can use a
terminal window within X (such as "xterm") or a virtual
terminal. To change to a different virtual terminal, hold down
the "Ctrl" and "Alt" keys and press a function
key. (<CTRL> + <ALT> + <function key> where <function
key> is <F1>,
<F2>, ... <F6>
for terminal mode or <F7> for
X.)
You will need root permissions for this installation and
setting up. Good practice is to log in as a normal user and
invoke the su command.
Password: (enter the root password) |
When you have finished, enter the
exit command to resume normal
user status.
You need to know your CD-R or CDRW drive's recording speed
and data buffer size. The speed is a number representing how
much faster the drive is than 150 kBytes/s (eg 4, 8, 10,
etc). The data buffer size is the number of MBytes. You can find
this information on the drive's original packaging or
documentation, on the Web or via software you may already use
with the drive on other operating systems. Entering
dmesg | grep ATAPI may also
report a memory size, but I am not sure how reliable this
is.
Your ide cd writer will only work if Linux is fooled into
thinking that it is a scsi cd writer. To do this, you must have
a kernel with the ide-scsi module. You can check this by using
the command lsmod in a terminal
window. You must have root permissions to do this.
Password: (enter the root password) |
athlon:/home/chris# lsmod | grep scsi |
If you have the ide-scsi module, you should see a line
something like this:
If the ide-pci module is present, you can skip the next
section and move on to installing the basic
software. If you do not have the ide-scsi module you must
install a kernel that does have it. The next section explains
how to install a different kernel.
Make sure that you have a text editor installed. I used
emacs. The detailed instructions in this document assume that
you will be using emacs, although you can use any text
editor. You can install emacs with
apt-get:
athlon:/home/chris# apt-get install emacs21 |
You will need these if you wish to allow normal users to
record CDs. They are both in the "adduser" package.
athlon:/home/chris# apt-get install adduser |