Fedora Install Generation I

From ATLASWARES

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Contents 1 Partitioning drives during Installation 2 Selecting System Software Components 3 Additional Packages and Applications 4 Interactive system administration 5 Cloning disk drives 5.1 Booting into Rescue Mode 5.2 Copying Drives at the shell prompt 5.3 Reestablishing Mirroring

Partitioning drives during Installation

• Boot from the Fedora Core x86_64 DVD (get the DVD here)
• At CD Found, select Skip to skip the media test
• Choose an installation language (English)
• Choose a keyboard layout ( U.S. English)
• Choose to manually setup partitions on /dev/sda:

Location	File System	Mount Point	Size (Mb)
sda1	ext3	/boot	110
sda2	ext3	/	26843
sda3	ext3	/backup	26843
sda4	-----	-----	-----
sda5	ext3	/home	10237
sda6	ext3	/var	10237
sda7	swap	SWAP	2047

• Select [RAID]
• Select "Clone Drive Partitions"
• Using RAID 1 (mirroring), create RAID arrays of each partition

The RAID partitions should be setup like this:

Location	File System	Mount Point	Size (Mb)
md0	ext3	/	26843
md1	ext3	/backup	26843
md2	ext3	/home	10237
md3	ext3	/var	10237
md4	swap	SWAP	2047
md5	ext3	/boot	110

Selecting System Software Components

• Set the root password (____________________)
• Choose the following base packages for installation

Package Name	Components
Gnome Desktop User Interface	ALL
KDE Desktop User Interface	ALL
X Windows System	ALL
OpenOffice.org productivity suite	ALL
Network Servers (for future compatibility)	ALL
Basic Image Software
Firefox web browser	ALL
Thunderbird e-mail program	ALL
System Administration Utilities	ALL
Legacy Software Support	ALL

• Complete the OS installation
• Remove the Fedora DVD, and restart the server

Additional Packages and Applications

• Login to the server as root using a KDE session
• Open the (Firefox) web browser and browse the internet
• Open a terminal session
• Change to the thumb drive Install folder

cd /media/WARESPE/install/

• Execute the custom install script

./install.sh

The following script installs AbiWord, GnuMeric, NXServer, NX Client, Adobe Reader, Webmin, Java, Shorewall, Flash Player, and LTSP. It also creates users USER00 - USER99, and downloads the ssh key for NX. (We keep this and other scripts on a USB thumb drive.)

#!/bin/sh
#install.sh

#yum installs
yum -y update
yum -y install gnumeric
yum -y install abiword
yum -y install shorewall

#rpm installs
rpm -ivh ./rpms/*.rpm
 
#create skeleton directory
cp -r skel /etc
 
#copy backup scripts
cp -r backup /etc
cp -a crontab /etc
 
#create users
sh ./users.sh

#setup dhcp
cp -a dhcpd.conf /etc

#setup firewall
cp -a -r shorewall /etc
service shorewall restart
 
#setup nxserver
sh ./nxsetup.sh

#setup folders
mkdir /home/global
chmod 777 /home/global
chown ServiceLogOn /home/global
mkdir /var/opt/arev
chmod 777 /var/opt/arev
chown ServiceLogOn /var/opt/arev 
mkdir /var/opt/openinsight
chmod 777 /var/opt/openinsight
chown ServiceLogOn /var/opt/openinsight

Interactive system administration

• Using a KDE session, login as Username=root, password (____________________).
• Start Firefox, go to location http://WaresServer:10000. Webmin will display.
• If requested, enter your Webmin Username=root, password (____________________).
• Goto System + SysV Init Configuration
• Create a new init process (used for backup process)
  • ID: y
  • Runlevel: 2
  • Action: Once time at level
  • Process: /etc/backup/backup-timer.sh
• Click Apply init configuration
• Goto Servers + Samba Windows File Sharing
• Click on Create a new FileShare to create application shares

WARES Server Application File Shares

Share Name	Directory to Share	Create with Owner	Radio Button Choices
arev	/var/opt/arev	ServiceLogOn	Yes/Yes/Yes
oinsight	/var/opt/openinsight	ServiceLogOn	Yes/Yes/Yes
public	/home/global	ServiceLogOn	Yes/Yes/Yes

• Change Security Settings on each new share to
  • Writeable: Yes
  • Guest Access: Yes
  • Guest User: ServiceLogOn

Cloning disk drives

Booting into Rescue Mode

• Replace the lower drive, SATA2, with a drive to be written
• Very important! Make sure SATA2 is connected to the lower drive!
• Insert the Fedora Core 5 DVD and boot the system
• At the boot: prompt, type linux rescue <Enter>
• At Choose a Language, press <Enter>; at Keyboard Type, press <Enter>
• At Setup Networking, choose No <Enter>
• At Rescue, choose Skip <Enter> to go to the shell prompt

Copying Drives at the shell prompt

• At sh-3.1#, type dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=4k
• During the 40 minutess of copying, the drive activity light will be on solid
• When informed that the copy is finished, remove the DVD and type exit <Enter>
• The system will reboot

Reestablishing Mirroring

• Boot the system, and login as username (__root__), password (____________________)
• Launch the browser, and go to address http://127.0.0.1:10000/
• Login to Webmin, username (__root__), password (____________________)
• Go to menu selection Hardware + Linux RAID
• Click each RAID device, select the corresponding SCSI device B partition, and add it to the array
• When finished, go to menu selection Hardware + Partitions on Local Disks
• Verify that the disk partitions have been associated correctly
• The system will resynchronize the arrays in approximately an hour