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The first step in booting a linux system is loading the kernel. This can be done in a variety of ways:
Run dmesg and answer the following questions (if the data scrolls off the screen, pipe the output through the more command to view it one screen at a time)speed:
- how fast is your system (in bogomips)? _________
memory:
- how much total memory is installed? __________
- how much memory is in use by the kernel? __________
- how much memory is available for processes, data, ... __________
printing:
- did the kernel detect a parallel port (lp_)? __________
- which port is it (lp0, lp1 or lp2)? __________
- what I/O address is the port using? __________
nic:
- did the kernel detect a network card (eth0)? __________
- what type of network card (tulip, smc, 3com, ... ) __________
- what I/O address is the network card using? __________
disk drives:
- did the kernel detect a floppy drive (fd_)? __________
- what did it identify about the drive? __________
- did the kernel detect an ide hard drive (hd_)? __________
- did the kernel detect a scsi hard drive (sd_)? __________
- did the kernel detect a cdrom drive?__________
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