Earthdevruis¶

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).

The main DevNet contact is Joe Foley <foley@ru.is>. He also installed th machine machine.

Installation¶

Turn on PXE for network boot/install¶

1. Reboot
2. While the machine is rebooting, hit F2 (or F1) so that it goes to BIOS setup
   1. Click on system options, then networking
   2. Set the network adapter to have PXE enabled
   3. Save options
3. Make sure that the machine is connected to the DevNet switches
4. Reboot

Netboot and pick installer¶

1. After PXE initializes, you should get an installer menu
2. Choose Ubuntu 12.04.2 64-bit (Alternate)
3. You'll have to pick region and keyboard. You want to pick the Icelandic keyboard

Partitioning the hard drive¶

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.
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)

1. Choose manual partitioning of hard drive
2. Create a /boot primary paritition of around 300MB. Make sure it is "bootable"
3. Go into the LVM manager
   1. Create a new physical volume with the remaining space on the drive
   2. Create these logical volumes with these names and sizes. You'll need to remember where they should be mounted also.
      • afscache 2GB (for /var/cache/openafs)
      • swap 8GB
      • slash 60GB (for /)
      • home 50GB (for /home)
      • export [Remaining space] (for /export)
   3. Save changes and exit the manager
4. In the partition manager, set these options for the partitions
   • boot: labeled boot, format as ext2, mounted at /boot, set "bootable" flag
   • afscache: 0% reserved, labeled afscache, format as ext2 or ext3, mounted at /var/cache/openafs
   • swap: swapspace
   • slash: labeled slash, format as ext4, mounted at /
   • home: 0% reserved, labeled home, format as ext4, mounted at /home
   • export: 0% reserved, labeled export, format as ext4, mounted at /export
5. Save changes
6. The installation should continue for a while

Picking server options¶

This may vary, but these are probably the settings you want:

• Basic Ubuntu Server
• SSH server
• Ubuntu Desktop