Igor here. I will be logging these entries from the good Doctor's scribbled and cryptic notes as he does not have the time for such trivial and mundane pursuits. Always busy, that one is. At least it's not boring work.
The purpose of this log is to chronicle the adventures (and misadventures) the good Doctor and I have in configuring a reanimated computer. I anticipate it will one day come to an end, either with glorious success or crashing utter failure of our experiments. That said, perhaps our record here will keep some other research team from meeting some of the setbacks we have.
The Doctor intensely dislikes Windows after his old system ate the notes from his previous experiments, and so we are working exclusively with Linux. (He doesn't know I kept backups of everything, though. Out of adversity are borne the fruits of true genius.)
In the case of this patient, the Doctor has decided to build Linux from Scratch. We are working from this project's lab notes, and the other data so generously provided there.
It all started as it usually does, with him dissatisfied and ratting about in the lab's many well-ordered bins one evening for parts. An old case with one side missing was followed shortly by a small ATX power supply and mother board. Noting the condition of the CPU heat sink, he carefully removed and replaced it with another, larger unit. A small dab of Arctic Silver paste was applied over the venerable old brain beneath it, and, naturally, he had to add an over-sized cooling fan to the top of the assembly. Of course, I have since cleaned up the lab and re-ordered the bins (yet again).
Soon enough , he and I had managed to bolt together an old 700 MHz Athlon powered monstrosity with two small hard drives, two DVD drives, 512 Megabytes of RAM, an old CRT SVGA monitor, PS/2 keyboard, and a Logitech USB Mouse (probably the most modern piece of equipment in the whole cobbled-together mess of a system). Connecting the jumpers up to the binding posts of the lab's generator, we fed power to this beastly creation and were greeted (after some strange clicking and whirring noises) with the ghostly glow of the system startup screen on the display.
We quickly entered the BIOS setup, set the date and time, and configured the hardware to boot from the DVD burner. Exiting setup, we put the Linux from Scratch Live CD, v. 6.3, in the drive and allowed our creation to breathe its first breaths of life. So far, so good, or so we thought.
There is more to tell, but not just now: the Mistress beckons us to dinner, and she gets rather fractious if we allow our meals to get cold. Don't worry, I'll be back with more later.
The Doctor intensely dislikes Windows after his old system ate the notes from his previous experiments, and so we are working exclusively with Linux. (He doesn't know I kept backups of everything, though. Out of adversity are borne the fruits of true genius.)
In the case of this patient, the Doctor has decided to build Linux from Scratch. We are working from this project's lab notes, and the other data so generously provided there.
It all started as it usually does, with him dissatisfied and ratting about in the lab's many well-ordered bins one evening for parts. An old case with one side missing was followed shortly by a small ATX power supply and mother board. Noting the condition of the CPU heat sink, he carefully removed and replaced it with another, larger unit. A small dab of Arctic Silver paste was applied over the venerable old brain beneath it, and, naturally, he had to add an over-sized cooling fan to the top of the assembly. Of course, I have since cleaned up the lab and re-ordered the bins (yet again).
Soon enough , he and I had managed to bolt together an old 700 MHz Athlon powered monstrosity with two small hard drives, two DVD drives, 512 Megabytes of RAM, an old CRT SVGA monitor, PS/2 keyboard, and a Logitech USB Mouse (probably the most modern piece of equipment in the whole cobbled-together mess of a system). Connecting the jumpers up to the binding posts of the lab's generator, we fed power to this beastly creation and were greeted (after some strange clicking and whirring noises) with the ghostly glow of the system startup screen on the display.
We quickly entered the BIOS setup, set the date and time, and configured the hardware to boot from the DVD burner. Exiting setup, we put the Linux from Scratch Live CD, v. 6.3, in the drive and allowed our creation to breathe its first breaths of life. So far, so good, or so we thought.
There is more to tell, but not just now: the Mistress beckons us to dinner, and she gets rather fractious if we allow our meals to get cold. Don't worry, I'll be back with more later.
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