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obtained. One of the more important information to be collected is the horizontal and vertical
frequency of the monitor, Linux sometimes does not properly identify the monitor and its properties.
Also you can run the freeware BGInfo in Windows (http://www. sysinternals. com/ ntw2k/freeware/
bginfo.shtml) to collect information on IP address, netmask address, network address, hostname,
gateway address, primary and secondary DNS etc (Fig. 1). These are needed to set up the internet
connection.
Fig. 1 BGInfo provides information on most aspects of the computer and the network (Note: This
screenshot is not of the computer in which Linux is installed.)
1.5 BIOS updating
In case the hard disk of the computer that is being used for installing Linux and GRASS is not upto
the expectations, it can be replaced with a new hard disk. But often the problem of incompatibilty
between the BIOS and the new hard disk arises. This is mostly because older hard disks are SCSI