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Because you want both to be primary partitions choose p and then choose 1 to setup the first partition. When it asks where to start at the first cylinder of the disk just select Enter to take the default. The last cylinder will determine the size, choose a size about twice the size of your existing RAM.

Follow the same process for the second partition except this partition you want to take the remainder of your disk. This will be your 2 nd primary partition on the drive and you will then hit Enter for both the start of the cylinder and the end to take the rest of the disk. Now use the p option and you should see something similar to this:. In this example the start for hda1 is 1 and it ends at while hda2 starts at until the end of the disk.

The 83 number tells you that the ID for these partitions is Linux. You will need to change one to a swap format. View the partition types that you may need with the l option and then check that each of your partitions is the correct type. The first partition will need to be changed to 82 which is the ID for swap.

The t option is used to change the format. When you use t fdisk will ask for which partition. It should be the first smaller partition.

Then it will ask which hex code and the number is 82 for swap. Type the p option to view your partitions, you should see one is swap like the example above.

Nothing has changed on the drive until you use the w option, then all the information that you have created will be written to the drive. When you write to disk using the w option it will be forever changed!!!!!!!

So be careful you have a backup. Once you use the w option you will see the disk syncing. You may have to restart to get both partitions setup. Now you may begin the installation of DSL on the disk. You will use the first partition for swap and the second for DSL. You will need the Live CD to be running on the computer to install to the hard drive. Make sure you get the latest version as versions are constantly updated.

This is where the real fun begins. Here you have three options that are important to understand. If you choose Enter you will get the Live CD up and running and perform the installation from there.

However, you can also install from the command line at the boot prompt. You may choose F2 or F3, both have a lot of options to use for a person who would like to install. You may think that the Boot Options are too hard to understand or that it is just flat boring Spend an hour playing with these options before you do an install you will be completely amazed at what you will learn!

F2 Boot Time Options. Video Display Options. When you choose the install option you have all o f the installation options for DSL at your fingertips. In order to install to a hard drive you will need a t least a MB Linux partition already created. If you are not sure you have the partitions created you can choose quit and you will go to a prompt where you will be able to use fdisk to create the partitions.

If you quit and go to the prompt do a:. Now you will have root access to configure the partitions. The problem if it is not on the first partition is that Windows works best when it has the Master Boot record on the Windows partition, not the Linux partition.

This installation is for a Linux only computer so dual boot is not covered here. Verify partition types. Boot: install. If you followed the partition steps you also have all of the needed partitions available. You will be asked where to install DSL, on what partition, be sure to choose the right partition. Remember you need at least MB. The size of your configuration will vary with the equipment that you are using.

If you configured your system so the first partition is the swap space then you would install to hda2. You will also be asked if you want multi-user logins. The next question will be if want to use a journalized ext3 system or a ext2 system. If this is being installed in an older computer use the ext2 because systems that use journals take RAM and processing to do this journaling.

Once that is answered you will be given a final warning that the install will likely destroy data on the partitions you will use Choose yes and the install will begin. This will take a few minutes and then you will be asked to install a boot loader.

Once you choose yes you will have the option to choose Grub or Lilo. Make a choice and then you will be asked if you have a Windows partition on the first partition hda1. If yes select yes, if not choose no. This is just to make sure the boot loader does not destroy the master boot record for Windows if you wanted to dual boot. DSL fbx Dsl fbx The first boot you will need to create a password for both root and dsl the default user.

Make sure you use good passwords and remember them as they will be the key to using the system. Once that is complete you will go to a boot prompt to login as dsl. Enter the username and password and click Enter. Install Complete. Swap is a physical location on the hard drive that allows the operating system to move data from RAM that is not being used to the hard drive for temporary storage. Swap space is used when RAM is getting low.

Use these two command to turn on swap. If you have installed DSL to the hard drive you will be asked to create two passwords once it boots. The NID has been opened to attach the blue Ethernet cable. The network interface device is typically a drab plastic box on the exterior of the house or in the basement or otherwise in the utility entrance area. It's the phone company's property and responsibility right up to the network interface device. From that point onward, it's all yours.

The phone company's line consists of a two pairs of wires. Each pair is typically considered as part of a loop, connecting a two-terminal device at the customer's end to a two-terminal device at the phone company. It was literally a loop years ago, now it is more likely to behave much as though it were a loop without literally being one.

The two wire pairs are considered, again for historical reasons, as the ring and the tip, referring back to when the ring and tip of an electrical plug were connected to the two lines. That gives us Tip 1 and Ring 1 as the two wires of pair 1, and Tip 2 and Ring 2 as the two wires of pair 2.

Practically speaking, the wires of pair 1 are blue with a thin white stripe, and white with a thin blue stripe. Similarly, the wires of pair 2 are orange with a thin white stripe, and white with a thin orange stripe. For most homes with a single line, pair 1 is used and pair 2 is an unused spare. Most residential phone wiring in the U. This four-strand wire would support two separate lines.

But the overwhelming majority of homes had just one line. New telephone wiring projects should use quality twisted-pair cable like that used for Ethernet. Category 5 cable should be fine, Category 6 would be overkill if we're just using voice plus DSL. Category 5 has good performance up to MHz, 5e has a tighter crosstalk specification. When you're connecting Ethernet cabling at the NID or network interface device, match its wire colors to the telephone company's. White-with-blue to white-with-blue and so on.

When you're dealing with legacy wiring already in place within the house, use the color matching shown above. We have opened the telephone Network Interface Device to find dirt, debris and old wasps' nests. The phone company's line comes in from the plastic conduit at bottom. That conduit has been painted a brick-red color. The end of the part of the cable retaining its outer plastic jacket is wrapped in black electrical tape. Wire pair 1 loops up to the top of the box and back down.

This pair is blue with a thin white stripe, and white with a thin blue stripe. Wire pair 2, orange and white, is coiled near the end of where the jacket has been cut away, where the electrical tape is wrapped around the last couple of inches of outer jacket.

Wire pair 1 is connected to terminals at either end of a black plastic block. The central terminal is the ground, where you connect the heavy green jacketed wire from the phone company and the heavy wire, here with a beige jacket, leading to a ground rod.

There, a 4-conductor cord just a few inches long has a modular plug on one end, and at the other end leads to a 4-terminal block. This allows you to unplug that short modular jumper and connect a phone, testing the connection out at the NID.

Telephone calls to this house could be frustrating with all the noise on the line. Hissing, crackling, popping. There was an old FAX machine plugged into one extension jack and a dysfunctional answering machine on another, but I think that the corrosion in the network interface had quite a bit to do with all the noise on the line.

We disconnected and threw out the broken old FAX and answering machine, and then I cleaned the terminals in the network interface. That solved the noise problem! The brass posts, nuts, and flat washers were heavily corroded.

I unscrewed the nuts and removed them and the flat washers, and then cleaned each post by wrapping fine steel wool around it and twisting it back and forth. I also cleaned the faces of the nuts and the flat washers. Power Supply Black : Plug a surge protector into the nearest electrical outlet. Because your DSL signal is active on every phone jack in your home, you will need to install a DSL filter wherever you have something plugged into a jack.

In Step 1, you installed a dual-jack DSL filter. If you want to use a phone in this location, insert its phone cord into the black side of the dual-jack DSL filter see Fig. For all other phone jacks:. If the modem page is not displayed, follow the instructions in the EarthLink support section of this guide to reboot your computer and try again. Both can be found on your modem packing slip.

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