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Joseph Foley, 2013-03-15 14:20
initial directions for install
| 1 | 1 | Joseph Foley | h1. Earthdevruis |
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| 3 | @earth.dev.ru.is@ is a high-performance linux server owned by the RU Speech Research group under Jón Gúðnason <jg@ru.is>. The machine lives in DevNet (the development network in the RU basement). |
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| 5 | The main DevNet contact is Joe Foley <foley@ru.is>. He also installed th machine machine. |
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| 7 | h2. Installation |
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| 9 | h3. Turn on PXE for network boot/install |
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| 11 | # Reboot |
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| 12 | # While the machine is rebooting, hit F2 (or F1) so that it goes to BIOS setup |
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| 13 | ## Click on system options, then networking |
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| 14 | ## Set the network adapter to have PXE enabled |
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| 15 | ## Save options |
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| 16 | # Make sure that the machine is connected to the DevNet switches |
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| 17 | # Reboot |
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| 19 | h3. Netboot and pick installer |
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| 21 | # After PXE initializes, you should get an installer menu |
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| 22 | # Choose Ubuntu 12.04.2 64-bit (Alternate) |
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| 23 | # You'll have to pick region and keyboard. You want to pick the Icelandic keyboard |
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| 25 | h3. Partitioning the hard drive |
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| 27 | It's a good idea to separate the operating system, home directory, and data storage. In addition, you will need a swap file and an AFS cache partition. |
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| 28 | The AFS cache partition should be ext2 or ext3. To make this easier to manage, you should have all except for a boot partition in LVM (logical volume manager) |
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| 30 | # Choose manual partitioning of hard drive |
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| 31 | # Create a /boot primary paritition of around 300MB. Make sure it is "bootable" |
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| 32 | # Go into the LVM manager |
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| 33 | ## Create a new physical volume with the remaining space on the drive |
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| 34 | ## Create these logical volumes with these names and sizes. You'll need to remember where they should be mounted also. |
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| 35 | * afscache 2GB (for @/var/cache/openafs@) |
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| 36 | * swap 8GB |
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| 37 | * slash 60GB (for @/@) |
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| 38 | * home 50GB (for @/home@) |
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| 39 | * export [Remaining space] (for @/export@) |
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| 40 | ## Save changes and exit the manager |
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| 41 | # In the partition manager, set these options for the partitions |
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| 42 | * boot: labeled boot, format as ext2, mounted at /boot, set "bootable" flag |
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| 43 | * afscache: 0% reserved, labeled afscache, format as ext2 or ext3, mounted at @/var/cache/openafs@ |
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| 44 | * swap: swapspace |
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| 45 | * slash: labeled slash, format as ext4, mounted at @/@ |
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| 46 | * home: 0% reserved, labeled home, format as ext4, mounted at @/home@ |
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| 47 | * export: 0% reserved, labeled export, format as ext4, mounted at @/export@ |
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| 48 | # Save changes |
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| 49 | # The installation should continue for a while |
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| 51 | h3. Picking server options |
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| 53 | This may vary, but these are probably the settings you want: |
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| 54 | * Basic Ubuntu Server |
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| 55 | * SSH server |
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| 56 | * Ubuntu Desktop |