• Install an LTS Ubuntu using a standard ISO and then update the Apt Repository Sources using instructions at https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/infrastructure/setups/ubuntu/UW-CS-Server/

• Install the following meta-packages (make sure to run an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade first!):

  
  apt-get install -y uwcs-auth uwcs-bare-metal uwcs-shells  uwcs-workstation 
  
     

• Update https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/internal/inventory/web/inventory/ and infoblox with Hardware MAC address, desired IP, Hostname and location details so that DHCP will pick station up properly.
• Make sure /etc/network/interfaces contains :

# The primary network interface
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

• REMOVE and make sure "Network Manager" is not installed and running using following command

sudo apt-get purge network-manager; ifup -a

• Make sure /etc/resolv.conf contains the following (correct the search fields as needed for a domain) by modifying /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base:

search cs.uwaterloo.ca
nameserver 172.19.32.5
nameserver 172.19.32.6
nameserver 172.19.47.6
options rotate attempts:1 timeout:1

• Execute the following command to create mount points for student.cs home directories :

sudo mkdir -p /org/cs /u /u0 /u1 /u2 /u3 /u4 /u5 /u6 /u7 /u8 /u9 /u.truncated

• Add following /etc/fstab :

fs-homedirs.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca:/nethome/cs-quota               /org/cs nfs sec=krb5,tcp,nodiratime,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,vers=3,nolock,noauto 

/org/cs/u            /u            none  bind,noauto
/org/cs/u0           /u0           none  bind,noauto
/org/cs/u1           /u1           none  bind,noauto
/org/cs/u2           /u2           none  bind,noauto
/org/cs/u3           /u3           none  bind,noauto
/org/cs/u4           /u4           none  bind,noauto
/org/cs/u5           /u5           none  bind,noauto
/org/cs/u6           /u6           none  bind,noauto
/org/cs/u7           /u7           none  bind,noauto
/org/cs/u8           /u8           none  bind,noauto
/org/cs/u9           /u9           none  bind,noauto
/org/cs/u.truncated  /u.truncated  none  bind,noauto

• Also, a note by ctucker for Ubuntu 14.04 systems :

This is done however there is a persistent race condition in the Ubuntu 1404 operating system which is causing attempts to 
mount the NFS shares in /etc/fstab prior to the network service being ready.

To overcome this problem I have inserted the following lines into the /etc/rc.local file to ensure the NFS mount 
is performed again at the end of the boot process. These lines must precede the exit 0 at the end of the rc.local file.

sleep 10
mount /org/cs
sleep 2
mount /u
mount /u0
mount /u1
mount /u2
mount /u3
mount /u4
mount /u5
mount /u6
mount /u7
mount /u8
mount /u9
mount /u.truncated 

• Patch /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf to consist of the below and then sudo service lightdm restart:

[SeatDefaults]
greeter-session=unity-greeter
user-session=ubuntu
greeter-show-manual-login=true
greeter-hide-users=true
allow-guest=false

• Physically install system in lab and make sure networking works.
• Contact infrastructure group to configure AD.
• If the host is a server accessed from linux.student.cs, then update ssh config on linux.student.cs using ssh-keygen -f "/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts2" -R IP_ADDRESS.

-- OmNafees - 2014-05-22