Speech Research

h1. 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.

h2. Installation

h3. Turn on PXE for network boot/install

# Reboot

# While the machine is rebooting, hit F2 (or F1) so that it goes to BIOS setup

## Click on system options, then networking

## Set the network adapter to have PXE enabled

## Save options

# Make sure that the machine is connected to the DevNet switches

# Reboot

h3. Netboot and pick installer

# After PXE initializes, you should get an installer menu

# Choose Ubuntu 12.04.2 64-bit (Alternate)

# You'll have to pick region and keyboard.  You want to pick the Icelandic keyboard

h3. 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)

# Choose manual partitioning of hard drive

# Create a /boot primary paritition of around 300MB.  Make sure it is "bootable"

# Go into the LVM manager

## Create a new physical volume with the remaining space on the drive

## 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@)

## Save changes and exit the manager

# 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@

# Save changes

# The installation should continue for a while

h3. Picking server options

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

* Basic Ubuntu Server

* SSH server

* Ubuntu Desktop