Installation guide

DREA CR 2001-10713
1.3 Installing Application Software
At the users' request, we installed some acoustic data manipulation software (Chang, 1999).
This simply involved copying the program executables from another Windows NT
workstation (kingfisher). To use the programs on the saturn workstation, follow the
instructions in the afore-mentioned report, replacing the kingfisher directory "D:\Chang\..."
with the corresponding saturn directory "H:\users\chang\...". (A copy of the contractor report
is available in the following PostScript file on the DREA FIRM cluster:
PS_72:[CHANG.FIR]ADMS_UPDATE.PS.)
2. LINUX CONFIGURATION
2.1 Using All Available Memory
By default, some Linux kernels do not support more than 64 MB of memory (see page 740 of
"Mastering Linux"). To use the full 256 MB of memory, the following line was added to the
"per image" section of the /etc/lilo.conf file:
append="mem=256M"
2.2 Creating the Whatis Database
In order to use the "apropos" command, the "whatis" database had to be created (see "man
whatis"). This was done by executing the following command as root:
/usr/sbin/makewhatis
2.3 Configuring the Sound Card
This was done by running sndconfig while logged as root. See pages 279 to 282 of the "Red
Hat Linux Getting Started Guide" for details. Sndconfig was able to detect the sound card
automatically. We noted that when outputting a sound file via "cat english.au > /dev/audio", a
loud crackling sound preceded the play back.
2.4 Allowing an Ordinary User to Mount the CD-ROM
This was carried out by using linuxconf as described on page 158 of the "Red Hat Linux
Getting Started Guide".
2.5 Allowing an Ordinary User to Mount the Floppy Disk
We tried to do this using a procedure similar to that for the CD-ROM, but it didn't work.