How to install linux on a ti extensa 660cdt

Link for installing on a 650cdt (http://www.planete.net/~ohmax/ti650cdt/ti650cdt.html)
  1. Boot it and isntall win95 (for command and conquer ;)
    Remember that you can MOUNT and WRITE your win95 partition under linux but not the other way around. With 2.1G I picked 950M of w95 (for games ;) and the rest linux. (See notes below)
  2. Run speed disk
  3. Put in your Redhat cd.
  4. Copy dosutils onto your harddrive.
  5. Reboot and put your floppy in (removing the cd).
  6. format a bootable system disk.
  7. Go to dos.
  8. Run FIPS to shrink your w95 partition
  9. Reboot and swap back to cd drive.
  10. Run autoboot.bat from the dosutils directory to boot from cd
  11. install linux as normal.

Paritioning

The disk as it came (after w95 install) was one big partition (with 20M spare at the end, I think for power management 'swap to disk'). I reformatted it to: /dev/hda1 * 1 1 245 987808+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hda2 246 246 512 1076544 83 Linux native /dev/hda3 513 513 520 32256 82 Linux swap

I intend to put all important data on the w95 partition so that I can just reinstall linux without erasing important data. On second thoughts, maybe I will repartition and make it: 500M linux, 500M data or something.

Sound

I just ran setup from a virtual console and it got it ok.

X11

A link I didnt use... http://www.ps.uci.edu/~tomba/inspiron/redhat-neomagic.txt

I used: http://www.monumental.com/js/Neomagic.html

  1. Goto the page.
  2. Download Here is a compiled server if (http://www.monumental.com/js/XF_86SVGA.tar.gz)
  3. Make your /etc/X11/XF86Config from the details on the page.
  4. extract the SVGA server. Put a link to it in /etc/X11/X
  5. startx

Network

I installed RH5.0 and just tried cards in the shop until I got one that worked first time. :)