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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