Comark Systems

• Find out the Root password - there was no documentation of this
• Load a driver for the Ethernet card which was installed in the system. This was a non-trivial effort, which had we installed the system ourselves would have led us through questions. To get this to work the following steps were needed - driver load . There was no manual or documenation for the Ethernet card included with the delivered system.
• The system came with a PS-2 mouse. The keyboard and the mouse could not both be plugged in. We needed to find another mouse.
• The Hard drive was not entirely formatted. About 3 GB of the drive was not visible. In order to fix this the following steps were needed:
• as root run fdisk. add a logical partition /dev/sda6 specifying the size using the end of the extended partition
• reboot system
• create file system. mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda6
• mkdir /products
• mount file system mou /dev/sda6 /products
• when we started to use the system we found that the memory on the system was not all enabled??? This was discovered because on the first compile of a package the disk was clearly thrashing and the swap space was used. In order to fix this we had to use lilo. To fix permanently we edited /etc/lilo-conf and inserted a line

append = "mem=128M"

At this point we were ready to upgrade various products on the system in order to create a development environment where Enstore will run and where SAM code and packages used by SAM will compile.