NEC MA400 manual Step-by-Step Procedure, Bin/dmesg grep hd

2-8 Getting Started

Step-by-Step Procedure

To initialize the flash card, install it in the server, and load the MPS system software do the following:

Step 1 Insert the MPS system software CD into your computer, then reboot.

—Linux status messages display, followed by a video mode prompt.

Step 2 Press Space to accept the default video mode. A keyboard selection prompt displays.

Step 3 Press Enter to accept the default keyboard configuration. A Linux command prompt displays.

Step 4 Enter root as the login ID, then enter xxxx as the password (the password entry will not display on the screen).

—The Linux command prompt changes to #, indicating you are logged in as a root user.

You must enter these values exactly as they are shown here because the Linux operating system, unlike Windows, is case-sensitive. That is, root and Root are not identical.

IMPORTANT

Be careful to enter the values in the remaining steps exactly as they are shown, including spaces.

Step 5 Type the following at the command prompt, then press Enter:

/bin/dmesg grep hd

—A list of configured devices on your PC displays, designated hda, hdb, hdc, etc.

Step 6 Use the list of displayed devices to locate your laptop’s hard drive and CD-ROM drive. Write down their designations (hda, hdc, etc.) so you will remember them.

It is critical you correctly identify your CD-ROM and internal hard drive from the list of displayed devices. You will need the correct designation in later steps to select which device will be formatted.

IMPORTANT

Linux identifies drives on your computer with the hd designation, plus a letter starting with a and continuing alphabetically. Commonly, the internal hard drive is hda and the internal CD-ROM is hdc. However, your configuration may be different. You can identify your drives using the information displayed after the previous step. For example, here is a possible drive listing:

hda: HTS54809349, ATA disk drive

hdc: Samsung CDRW-DVD, ATAPI CD-ROM drive

hda: HTS54809349, 76319MB w/ 7877kB cache

hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-RW drive, 2048kB cache

hda: hda1, hda2

This listing shows the internal 80MB hard drive as hda. You can easily identify the

CD-ROM drive as hdc.

MA4000 Installation Manager User Guide - Revision 6