This is *old stuff* and no longer interesting.
“linux is free if you time is worthless” – Rich Teer on comp.sys.sun.solaris, as quoted by elf on #emacs, 2003-07-31
This page is all about booting Linux. For other software, see DebianSetup.
I use Debian Sid right now (2004-03-18). I have an Athlon K7 CPU, a LITEON CD-ROM writer, a Tulip ethernet card for my cable modem, a Soundblaster 128 PCI soundcard (es1371 chip), a joystick (for MAME, but I haven’t played in a long time), a Casio Exilim S2 digital camera, a firewire card for my Claudia’s Sony DCR-PC104E.
In my _etc_modules:
psmouse ide-scsi
To detect the CDRW device:
cdrecord -scanbus -dev=ATAPI
To read a CD:
cdda2wav --device ATAPI:0,1,0 --cddb 1 --alltracks foo
To write tracks:
cdrecord -v -speed=0 dev=ATAPI:0,1,0 driveropts=burnfree -dao -audio -pad \
-useinfo -text -overburn foo*.wav
Remember to delete the *.inf files if not burning the wav files in the original order.*
Init booting with grub where my root including my _boot are on dev_hdb3. Copy all the grub stuff into _boot_grub. Then:
1. start grub
2. root (hd1,2)
3. setup (hd0)
My _boot_grub/menu.lst:
default 0 fallback 1 timeout 10 title Linux root (hd1,2) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb3 initrd /initrd.img title Old root (hd1,2) kernel /vmlinuz.old root=/dev/hdb3
This works because *vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old are linked as follows:*
vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-686 vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19pre17 initrd.img -> /boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-686
To burn CD-ROMs without being root (security risk?):
chmod 4111 /usr/bin/cdrecord chgrp cdrom /dev/sg0 chmod g+rw /dev/sg0
To give users permissions to use _mnt_cdimage and burn CDs:
cd /usr/bin chown root:cdrom cdrecord* cdda2wav* mkisofs* readcd* cdrdao* chmod 4750 cdrecord* cdda2wav* mkisofs* readcd* chown root:cdrom /mnt/cdimage chmod g+w /mnt/cdimage