[geeks] The Mini-ITX box is done!

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 11:43:06AM -0400, sammy ominsky wrote:
> Urgh. I don't have a linux box handy to give you the specifics, but 
> there's a kernel config setting for that CPU type.
> The easiest thing to do is pull the drive, put it in another box to 
> install, check the right CPU type in the config, build your kernel, and 
> put the drive back in your tinypc.
> Yes, it sucks. The alternative is to custom build an install cd that 
> boots that appropriate kernel, then installs with it.
> I wish you success.

Easiest thing to do (at least for Fedora Core 2) is to get the 
custom via C3 FC2 boot CD with a patched kernel:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120685

Use it, in conjunction with the FC2 CDs, to install the OS and then
put the patched 2.6.6 kernel on the system.  There you go!

[root at box root]# uname -a
Linux box.mrbill.net 2.6.6-1.383 #1 Tue May 25 05:45:40 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[root at box root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : CentaurHauls
cpu family      : 6
model           : 8
model name      : VIA C3 Ezra
stepping        : 9
cpu MHz         : 667.210
cache size      : 64 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow
bogomips        : 1314.10

Dunno why its showing a 1Ghz CPU as 667Mhz though.

bill

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bill bradford
austin texas