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Revision as of 15:15, 7 February 2012

Contents 1 CentOS 6.2 1.1 Preparation 1.2 Hardware 1.3 Install Operating System 1.4 Configure File Server Access 1.5 Optional: Delay NFS Mount 1.6 Install Additional Library Repositories 1.7 Install additional libraries 1.8 Update Everything To Latest Version 1.9 Install graphics driver 1.10 Copy root's ssh keys 1.11 Add user accounts 1.12 Disable user list at login

CentOS 6.2

Preparation

1. Request static IP address in 137.110.118 or 137.110.119 subnet, suggest DNS name (find inspiration at [1])
2. Send DNS name to Jurgen to update data bank at [2]

Hardware

1. Set up computer, monitor, keyboard, mouse on lab desk
2. Make sure mouse is wired and optical; talk to Jurgen if not
3. Connect monitor with DVI cable, not VGA
4. Connect network cable to activated Ethernet wall jack

Install Operating System

1. insert CentOS DVD-ROM
2. reboot computer
3. in boot manager: select DVD drive to boot from DVD
4. use default regional settings (US/English)
5. set root password
6. in time zone settings: enable NTP
7. Configure network
8. start network configuration tool in System->Administration->Network
9. double click on connected Ethernet port
10. enter this computer's static IP address
11. net mask: 255.255.255.0
12. DNS servers: 132.239.0.252, 128.54.16.2
13. reboot

Configure File Server Access

1. Add machine's IP address to server's "exports" file
2. "exportfs -r" on server
3. Add two lines to /etc/fstab:

  137.110.118.210:/raid/ivlhome   /home         nfs     defaults        0 0
  137.110.118.211:/raid/ivldata	  /data         nfs     defaults        0 0

1. mkdir /data
2. mount -a

Optional: Delay NFS Mount

If home directories aren't mounted upon reboot: give OS time to get network ready before mounting the NFS

1. "vi /etc/init.d/netfs"
2. insert the following line:

   action $"Sleeping for 30 secs: " sleep 30

   between line:

   [ ! -f /var/lock/subsys/portmap ] && service portmap start

   and

   action $"Mounting NFS filesystems: " mount -a -t nfs,nfs4

   This makes sure the server directory gets mounted.

Install Additional Library Repositories

Enable RPMforge repository:

• wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
• rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt # install GPG key
• rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm # make sure this returns OK
• rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm # install repository

Install additional libraries

Install libraries which are part of CentOS:

yum -y groupinstall "Chinese Support"
yum -y install eclipse
yum -y install kernel-devel
yum -y install arts-devel
yum -y install freetype-devel
yum -y install freeglut-devel
yum -y install ImageMagick-devel
yum -y install ImageMagick-c++-devel.x86_64
yum -y install emacs
yum -y install screen
yum -y install gnuplot
yum -y install latex2html
yum -y install gsl-devel
yum -y install lapack-devel
yum -y install opencv-devel

The following libraries are not part of CentOS:

yum -y install fltk
yum -y install fltk-fluid
rpm -Uhv /home/jschulze/rpm/Cg-2.1_November2008_x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uhv /home/jschulze/rpm/mxml-2.2.2-8.el5.ccrma.x86_64.rpm
ln -s /usr/lib64/libmxml.so.1 /usr/lib64/libmxml.so

Update Everything To Latest Version

1. yum -y update
2. reboot

Install graphics driver

• on login screen: hit ctrl-alt-F1
• log in as root
• "init 3"
• log in as root again
• For CentOS 6: Disable Nouveau driver
  • create config file: vi /etc/modprobe.d/disable-nouveau.conf
  • contents for this file:

    blacklist nouveau options nouveau modeset=0

  • vi /etc/grub.conf
  • add rdblacklist=nouveau to kernel line:

    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_pumice-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD rd_LVM_LV=vg_pumice/lv_root SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb rd_LVM_LV=vg_pumice/lv_swap rd_NO_DM rdblacklist=nouveau

  • reboot
• Install Nvidia driver
  • "sh /home/jschulze/rpm/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10.run"
  • do not install 32bit compatibility drivers
  • allow auto-editing xorg.conf
• reboot

Copy root's ssh keys

1. ssh root@sessions.ucsd.edu
2. cd .ssh
3. scp * root@<new_machine>:.ssh

Add user accounts

• Copy passwd, shadow and group files from sessions

Disable user list at login

• As root type on command line:

gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type Boolean --set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list True