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image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34-0.6
label=linux
append="mem=160M" # allow access for greater than 64
MB RAM
root=/dev/sda2
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.0.34-0.6.img
read-only
# begin System Partition section
other=/dev/sda3
label=F10
table=/dev/sda
Be sure to run /sbin/lilo after adding the append line, and reboot. You can determine if the larger
amount of RAM was made available to the system by typing free as the root user. Something
similar to the following output should appear:
[chstewart@tlaloc ~]# su
Password:
[root@tlaloc chstewart]# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 160116 119888 40228 33180 64772 34308
-/+ buffers/cache: 99080 139308
Swap: 130748 0 130748
[root@tlaloc chstewart]# exit
Examine the “total” column. If it shows the amount of RAM installed on the system in kilobytes
(each kilobyte calculated by free is 1024 bytes), then the system recognizes that amount of RAM.
Video Setup
Red Hat’s setup program automatically identifies the video cards of all four Compaq servers
tested, and it automatically configures for the Generic SVGA X Server. Most Compaq monitors
are not present in Red Hat’s monitor database. To manually configure these, please see the
settings outlined in the previous section, Video Card and Monitors.
Configuring the TLAN driver
The complete TLAN driver distribution is available from many Linux download sites. The
primary distribution point seems to be
ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/stuff/tlan.tgz
(the author is from
Caldera Systems). At this time, the version available is Version 1.0. It currently supports PCI
devices only (including the embedded NIC cards on the ProLiant 1600, 1600R, and 1850R).
Versions 5.1 and 5.2 of Red Hat were tested on the ProLiant 1600, 1600R, 1850R, and Prosignia
Server 720 (with a PCI-based TLAN card added). To plug the TLAN driver into Red Hat's Kernel
Daemon Configuration tool (located in Red Hat's control panel under X), it is necessary to edit a
file in the /boot directory. The file is called module-info-<kernel version>, sometimes followed
on with a subversion number. Examples include module-info-2.0.34 (from Red Hat 5.1) or
module-info-2.0.34-0.6 (from a "non-official" Red Hat version of the OS). There may instances
when multiple versions of this file are present – though often the multiples are simply soft links to
the original – and usually the other apparent versions are merely soft links to the primary. If
multiple files are present, the easiest way to ensure that the right file is edited is to edit all of
them. To edit, the easiest way is to search for "tulip". Tulip is used so TLAN can be easily
inserted in an alphabetical order in the network section of the file (tulip is a network card). Right
before the tulip entry, insert the following three lines
Note: The whitespace preceding the entries on lines 2 and 3 consists of a single tab character.
