COMP 266 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Grep, Red Hat Linux, Floppy Disk

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1. Linux Startup

a. Run the dmesg command, and list which devices are assigned to each of CD-

ROM, HD, and floppy disk.

Ans: CD-ROM:

cd0 :at ata1 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0

cd0: <NECVMWar VMWare IDE CDR10 1.00> Removable CD-ROM SCSI

device

HD:

da0: <Vmware, Vmware Virtual S 1.0> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device

Floppy: does not exist.

b. What do you think the following (or a similar line) in dmesg output means?

Linux version 2.6.5-1.358 ([email protected]dhat.com) (gcc version

3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)) #1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 DT 2004

Ans: Displays the release information of the current kernel build. My output looked like

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