MageiaCauldron: Installing Mageia x86

InstallLaptop > Lent by my enterprise on 28th December 2011: Lenovo t510 core i7 8 GB RAM (yeah, for christmas :D a bit afterwards, though it's not yet a gift, only lending for a "short" time)

Lenovo Thinkpad T510
Matrice15.6" HD Anti-Glare Display with LED Backlight
Processeur Intel Core i7-620M Processor (2.66GHz -4MB L3 - 1066MHz FSB)
HDD 500GB Hard Disk Drive 7200rpm
Ram 8GB PC3-10600 DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz SODIMM Memory (2 DIMM)
Wireless-N 1000 (1X2 BGN) Intel  Centrino
Bluetooth 
Webcam Camera 2,0 MP
Multi Recorder Optical Drive (12.7mm)
Batterie 6 cell Li-Ion 
Clavier Azerty
TrackPoint with Touchpad
OS Windows Seven Business 64 bits, FR

yeah, a cool laptop for work :-)

announced autonomy: 3h30 to 4h00 (varying...) to 6h50 o_O WTF with this estimation? (depending on actual use I suppose... I do not have that much to do with windows...)
effective autonomy: 21h40 to... 23h13 (pretending it remains 2h30...)
starting windows : 23h19'15 to 23h20'20 preparing conf windows then 23h21:07 (WTF, seems the hard disk is _slow_ and the conf is weird)

blue key at boot only launches restore program, use F10 to access BIOS (and boot on an USB-key)
BIOS / Config / CPU : Intel(R) Virtualization technology: disabled by default... (check CPU type) + Intel(R) VT-d feature: disabled by default (what does it correspond to?)
BIOS / Startup put USB HDD first, then USB FDD, ATAPI CD0, USB CD, ATA HDD0, PCI LAN, ATA HDD1
use F12 key at boot (POST) to invoke a pop-up boot device list (I should have done that at first... maybe I missed it in the documentation I did not read as I wasn't provided with it :/)

Installing Mageia x86_64 on Lenovo T510

I prefer to use Mageia for partitionning as I master the installation :-) The idea would be:

30 GB for windows => with the objective to virtualize it afterwards under Linux, perhaps less if possible
30 GB for Mageia as it is my preferred GNU/Linux distribution (yet another occasion to test daily
30 GB for Centos (as I do not have Red Hat Enterprise Linux licenses... nor access to rhn)
10 GB recovery partition (to be kepts)
remaining (~ 400 GB) for data storage: perhaps one partition with 100 GB NTFS, 200 GB ext4 (, I'm not sure yet, I may have to add a driver to windows in order to read/write ext4 as I think it's not native... (such a flawed OS...)

first boot on usb-key 23h36:17 system available at 23:37:40 o_O how come it's sooooo loooonnng ? 23h39:10 once french / hour validated... ORLY 3 min on such a laptop o_O how come? I think my eeepc 901 is faster at booting on usb key...
at 23h40 : autonomy under GNU/Linux is announced at 2h (on usb key, Gnome Live USB) 0h44 : 20 min remaining, plugging in some 220V...)

resize NTFS partition from 450 GB to 44 GB (I would have expected less :/)
rebooted at 1h07:00, CHKDSK launched (classical when windows partition is resized), end at 1h12:40 and rebooting windows... which takes time, available at 1h14:10 :)

http://www.mageia.org/fr/downloads/ getting boot.iso for x86_64 cf. https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installation_Media
dd if=boot.iso of=/dev/sdx # as root, sdx being sdb: my usb key (take care, sdb is sometimes the 2nd usb disk, with data, one reason why I've put sdx in order to avoid erasing intempestively useful data :D).

starting with USB key at 1h37, choosing distrib-coffee (as usual), available for network install of x86_64 (remember that boot.iso is only 30 MB... relying on online repositories for install).
How come loading takes soooo loooonnng ? 1h39... now.

30 GB ext4 for Mageia, 9 GB for swap (will be shared)
installation via network beginning at 1h45, using ethernet, expecting 1 Mo/s (8 to 10 Mbits/s, ADSL)

initial estimation: 01:56 then 02:47 (minutes ? hours ?) then 03:46 o_O
going to bed: current estimation is 5:33 at 1h52...
install was finished in the early morning, created user baud and added task-gnome (as I prefer it to KDE4...)

Finishing the installation

See below for some diagnostics (RAM, kernel modules...)

add user baud to group vboxusers in order to use USB
enable in BIOS: CPU virtualisation + VT-d (in order to install a x86_64 virtualbox machine)
note: in virtualbox, change host-key to menu (key menu at the right of Space/AltrGr rather than ctrl-right as it can be captured by the desktop (GNOME for example...)

Installing Centos 5.7 on Lenovo T510

I'd prefer a physical installation, anyway I'll try first with virtualbox to avoid problems with hardware.

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T510
http://www.linlap.com/wiki/lenovo+thinkpad+t510

iso available at: http://mirror.ovh.net/ftp.centos.org/5.7/isos/x86_64/ (check CentOS-5.7-x86_64-netinstall.iso)
rpm tree: http://mirror.ovh.net/ftp.centos.org/5.7/
http://wiki.centos.org/fr/Download
http://mirror.ovh.net/ftp.centos.org/5.7/os/x86_64/ better as it contains directory images

start install' at 19h26 CentOS-5 5.7 x86_64 (verify network throughput)

using hda defined with 32 GB by virtualbox
seems to start by 19h34 glibc...
dowloading at 1,2 Mbits/s estimated remaining time: 50 min at 19h35 (I should not have chosen GNOME install, perhaps...)

remaining time: 30 min at 19h45
remaining time: 20 min at 19h48
remaining time: 10 min at 19h53

reboot at 20h04 (after disabling the "CDROM" entry)

configuration of firewall (SSH, HTTP/HTTPS...)
SELinux: Strict

creating a user baud, and booting GNOME :-) (yeah not that useful on a server...)
ToDo: make a mirror of the RPM tree, in order to permit faster installation (local rather than through Internet network...)

document which trees are useful: base + updates (extras ? centosplus and contrib seem not compulsory... if compatibility with RHEL wants to be kept)
document install server (not that useful to have samba + MySQL installed... prefer a simple install')
ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/centos/5.7/os/x86_64/ (to avoid SRPMS and i386)
ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/centos/5.7/updates/x86_64/

rsync -aH --partial rsync://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr_remove/pub/linux/centos/5.7/updates/x86_64 centos/5.7/updates/
no / at the end of x86_64 to take the directory and all its content
3,6G os
1,5G updates

configuration

lspcidrake -vv
firewire_ohci   : Ricoh Co Ltd|FireWire Host Controller [SERIAL_FIREWIRE] (vendor:1180 device:e832 subv:17aa subd:2136) (rev: 01)
unknown         : Ricoh Co Ltd|Memory Stick Host Controller [SYSTEM_OTHER] (vendor:1180 device:e230 subv:17aa subd:2134) (rev: 01)
sdhci_pci       : Ricoh Co Ltd|MMC/SD Host Controller [SYSTEM_SDHCI] (vendor:1180 device:e822 subv:17aa subd:2133) (rev: 01)
iwlagn          : Intel Corporation|Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:8086 device:0084 subv:8086 subd:1315)
intel_ips       : Intel Corporation|5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem [SP_OTHER] (vendor:8086 device:3b32 subv:17aa subd:2190) (rev: 06)
i2c_i801        : Intel Corporation|5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller [SERIAL_SMBUS] (vendor:8086 device:3b30 subv:17aa subd:2167) (rev: 06)
ahci            : Intel Corporation|5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller [STORAGE_SATA] (vendor:8086 device:3b2f subv:17aa subd:2168) (rev: 06)
iTCO_wdt        : Intel Corporation|Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller [BRIDGE_ISA] (vendor:8086 device:3b07 subv:17aa subd:2166) (rev: 06)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:2448) (rev: a6)
ehci_hcd        : Intel Corporation|5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:8086 device:3b34 subv:17aa subd:2163) (rev: 06)
shpchp          : Intel Corporation|5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 5 [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:3b4a) (rev: 06)
shpchp          : Intel Corporation|5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 4 [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:3b48) (rev: 06)
shpchp          : Intel Corporation|5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:3b44) (rev: 06)
shpchp          : Intel Corporation|5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:3b42) (rev: 06)
snd_hda_intel   : Intel Corporation|5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (vendor:8086 device:3b56 subv:17aa subd:215e) (rev: 06)
ehci_hcd        : Intel Corporation|5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:8086 device:3b3c subv:17aa subd:2163) (rev: 06)
e1000e          : Intel Corporation|82577LM Gigabit Network Connection [NETWORK_ETHERNET] (vendor:8086 device:10ea subv:17aa subd:2153) (rev: 06)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|5 Series/3400 Series Chipset KT Controller [COMMUNICATION_SERIAL] (vendor:8086 device:3b67 subv:17aa subd:2162) (rev: 06)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller [COMMUNICATION_OTHER] (vendor:8086 device:3b64 subv:17aa subd:215f) (rev: 06)
Card:Intel 810 and later: Intel Corporation|Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:8086 device:0046 subv:17aa subd:215a) (rev: 02)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|Core Processor DRAM Controller [BRIDGE_HOST] (vendor:8086 device:0044 subv:17aa subd:2193) (rev: 02)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|Core Processor Reserved [BRIDGE_HOST] (vendor:8086 device:2d13 subv:17aa subd:2196) (rev: 02)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|Core Processor Reserved [BRIDGE_HOST] (vendor:8086 device:2d12 subv:17aa subd:2196) (rev: 02)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|Core Processor QPI Physical 0 [BRIDGE_HOST] (vendor:8086 device:2d11 subv:17aa subd:2196) (rev: 02)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|Core Processor QPI Link 0 [BRIDGE_HOST] (vendor:8086 device:2d10 subv:17aa subd:2196) (rev: 02)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder [BRIDGE_HOST] (vendor:8086 device:2d01 subv:17aa subd:2196) (rev: 02)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers [BRIDGE_HOST] (vendor:8086 device:2c62 subv:17aa subd:2196) (rev: 02)
hub             : Linux 2.6.38.7-desktop586-1.mga ehci_hcd|EHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused|Full speed (or root) hub] (vendor:1d6b device:0002)
hub             : Intel Corp.|Integrated Rate Matching Hub [Hub|Unused|Full speed (or root) hub] (vendor:8087 device:0020)
usb_storage     : Toshiba Corp.|USB Flash Memory [Mass Storage|SCSI|Bulk (Zip)] (vendor:0930 device:653d)
hub             : Linux 2.6.38.7-desktop586-1.mga ehci_hcd|EHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused|Full speed (or root) hub] (vendor:1d6b device:0002)
hub             : Intel Corp.|Integrated Rate Matching Hub [Hub|Unused|Full speed (or root) hub] (vendor:8087 device:0020)
btusb           : Broadcom Corp|Broadcom Bluetooth Device [Wireless|Radio Frequency|Bluetooth] (vendor:0a5c device:217f)
uvcvideo        : Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.|Integrated Camera [Video|Video Control] (vendor:17ef device:480f)

uname -a

Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.38.8-desktop-8.mga #1 SMP Fri Nov 4 00:05:53 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

free -m

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          7802       1923       5879          0        124        772
-/+ buffers/cache:       1026       6776
Swap:         8999        149       8849

xdpyinfo -display :0

name of display:    :0
version number:    11.0
vendor string:    The X.Org Foundation
vendor release number:    11001000
X.Org version: 1.10.1
maximum request size:  16777212 bytes
motion buffer size:  256
bitmap unit, bit order, padding:    32, LSBFirst, 32
image byte order:    LSBFirst
number of supported pixmap formats:    7
supported pixmap formats:
	depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
	depth 4, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
	depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
	depth 15, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
	depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
	depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
	depth 32, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
keycode range:    minimum 8, maximum 255
focus:  window 0x3c00024, revert to Parent
number of extensions:    29
	BIG-REQUESTS
	Composite
	DAMAGE
	DOUBLE-BUFFER
	DPMS
	DRI2
	GLX
	Generic Event Extension
	MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
	MIT-SHM
	RANDR
	RECORD
	RENDER
	SECURITY
	SGI-GLX
	SHAPE
	SYNC
	X-Resource
	XC-MISC
	XFIXES
	XFree86-Bigfont
	XFree86-DGA
	XFree86-VidModeExtension
	XINERAMA
	XInputExtension
	XKEYBOARD
	XTEST
	XVideo
	XVideo-MotionCompensation
default screen number:    0
number of screens:    1

screen #0:
  dimensions:    1366x768 pixels (361x203 millimeters)
  resolution:    96x96 dots per inch
  depths (7):    24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32
  root window id:    0xb3
  depth of root window:    24 planes
  number of colormaps:    minimum 1, maximum 1
  default colormap:    0x20
  default number of colormap cells:    256
  preallocated pixels:    black 0, white 16777215
  options:    backing-store NO, save-unders NO
  largest cursor:    64x64
  current input event mask:    0xfa8033
	KeyPressMask             KeyReleaseMask           EnterWindowMask          
	LeaveWindowMask          ExposureMask             StructureNotifyMask      
	SubstructureNotifyMask   SubstructureRedirectMask FocusChangeMask          
	PropertyChangeMask       ColormapChangeMask       
  number of visuals:    32
  default visual id:  0x21
  visual:
	visual id:    0x21
	class:    TrueColor
	depth:    24 planes
	available colormap entries:    256 per subfield
	red, green, blue masks:    0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff
	significant bits in color specification:    8 bits

MageiaCauldron : InstallLaptopLenovoThinkpadT510

Installing Mageia x86_64 on Lenovo T510

Finishing the installation

Installing Centos 5.7 on Lenovo T510

configuration