Each of the following list items corresponds to a seperate window whose name is displayed in the top center of the "User Selection" window.
Use the instructions at the bottom of the install screen to navigate around the screen and to move between windows.
The bolded text below itemizes the recommended settings for each of the "User Selection" Windows.
English
Always try to use the default setting first.
us
NFS image
Do not select "Use dynamic IP configuration (BOOTP/DHCP)"
IP Address: 129.97.NNN.XXX Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Default gateway (IP): 129.97.NNN.1 Primary nameserver: 129.97.128.100
Where:
NNN and XXX are the values obtained when you registered your <Hostname> with "hostmaster@ist.uwaterloo.ca".
<Hostname> is the the fully qualified name. ie The fully qualified hostname of "linux22.math" is "linux22.math.uwaterloo.ca""
NFS server name: rha.uwaterloo.ca Red Hat directory: /Distros/7.1/
Note that the Red Hat directory name is case sensitive.
At this point the graphical user interface install starts and the screen is divided into two windows: the "Online Help" on the left side and "User Selection" on the right. The item names now correspond to the "User Selection" window.
Always try to use the default setting first.
3 Button Mouse (PS/2)
Nothing to enter on this screen.
Custom Setup
Manually partition with Disk Druid
The real partitioning of the disk was done before the install started with PQ partition magic.
Edit hda2 to have
Mount Point: /
Edit hda4 to have
Mount Point: /home
The new hardware has a system BIOS that supports booting above the 1024 cylinder limit. So we can ignore this.
Select OK.Always format "/", and (only if you haven't done it recently or suppect that your disk is flacky) "check for bad blocks while formatting".
Since the "/home" directory already had information, it was not formated.
check Create boot disk
We want to use LILO to handle booting.
check Install LILO select /dev/hda Master Boot Record (MBR)
Since we want to use "lba32" mode of addressing the disk drive,
uncheck Use linear mode (needed for some SCSI drives)
Select the Device that has the OS installed that you want booted by default and make sure that the "Default boot image" box is checked.
You can also change the labels of the boot devices as you like by selecting the "Device" and entering the new label in the "Boot label: " box.
There should be nothing to do here as the information was already provided as part of NFS mounting the install media.
These notes are very preliminary
Since we're going to use pmfirewall package to setup ipchains
"Please choose your security level:"
select No firewall
Select the languages first
check English (Canada) check English (Great Britain) check English (USA)
And then
Choose the default language: English (Canada)
Do not select "System clock uses UTC" since we will be dual booting the host where one of the choices is a Microsoft OS.
Click on map to select time zone or scroll through options and select one of the "Eastern Time" zone choices.
Location: ... Eastern Time
Set a "Root Passwd" and "Confirm" it.
I recommend setting up additional commands after the OS is installed. You can then use the command "adduser". (MFCF should have a web page on account management but we don't yet, 01/05/18.)
Enable MD5 passwords
Enable shadow passwords
DO NOT select "Enable NIS", "Enable LDAP", or "Enable Kerberos".
These choices were selected:
"Printer Support", "X Window System", "GNOME", "KDE", "Mail/WWW/News Tools", "DOS/Windows Connectivity", "Graphics Manipulation", "Multimedia Support", "Laptop Support", "Networked Workstation", "Dialup Workstation", "SMB (Samba) Server", "Network Management Workstation", "Authoring/Publishing", "Emacs", "Development", "Kernel Development", "Utilities".
Also checked Select individual packages
From the "Applications -> Communications" group of packages,
select:
gkermit
From the "Applications -> Editors" group of packages,
select:
vim-X11
vim-enhanced
xemacs
xemacs-el
xemacs-info
From the "Applications -> Engineering" group of packages,
select:
gnuplot
octave
units
From the "Applications -> File" group of packages,
select:
tree
From the "Applications -> Internet" group of packages,
select:
x3270-text
xmailbox
xrn
ytalk
From the "Applications -> Multimedia" group of packages,
select:
gimp-data-extras
transfig
xfig
From the "Applications -> Publishing" group of packages,
select:
enscript
tetex-doc
From the "Applications -> System" group of packages,
select:
linuxconf
macutils
procinfo
samba-swat
symlinnks
sysctlconfig
tripwire
usbview
xcpustate
xosview
xsysinfo
xtoolwait
xisdnload
From the "Development -> Debuggers" group of packages,
select:
kdbg
lslk
sysreport
From the "Development -> Languages" group of packages,
select:
itcl
jikes
kaffe
libgcj-devel
From the "Development -> Libraries" group of packages,
select:
WindowMaker-libs
blas
lapack
From the "Development -> Tools" group of packages,
Select all in group
From the "Documentation" group of packages,
select:
bash-doc
lapack-man
python-docs
From the "System Environment -> Base" group of packages,
unselected:
nss_ldap
pam_krb5
rhn_register
rhn_register_gnome
up2date
up2date_gnome
yptools
From the "System Environment -> Daemons" group of packages,
unselected:
finger-server
rusers-server
talk-server
telnet-server
ypbind
ypserv
From the "System Environment -> Libraries" group of packages,
select:
Wnn6-SDK
fnlib
libPropList
zsh
From the "System Environment -> Shells" group of packages,
select:
pdksh
zsh
From the "User Interface -> Desktops" group of packages,
Select all in group
From the "User Interface -> X" group of packages,
Select all in group
Still need to find where Canna-libs came from!
S3 Savage (generic)Video card RAM:
8 MB
Generic Laptop Display Panel 1024x768
Horizontal Sync: 31.5-48.5 KHz
Vertical Sync: 50-70 Hz
Color Depth: True Color (24 Bit)
Screen Resolution: 1024 x 768
Default desktop environment GNOME
Login type Graphical
Last chance to "backup" and make changes. Once you're happy...
Nice GUI shows you how the install is going. When it is done you automatically switch to the next section.
Put a formated floppy disk in floppy drive, and continue.
Nothing to do but hit Exit.
"lynx" config file must be changed to tell it to use passive ftp service.
echo "FTP_PASSIVE:TRUE" >> /etc/lynx.cfg
We use IST's (Jeff Voskamp's) UWupdates package to keep system up to date, so install it.
rpm -ivh ftp://rha.uwaterloo.ca/linux/UWupdates.i386.rpm
Update the system.
ListUpdates | ApplyUpdates
Change the default timeout for the OS selector to 30 seconds by changing the "timeout=50" line in /etc/lilo.conf to timeout=30 and then running "lilo"
reboot host to make sure all updates have taken affect.
reboot
After the host has rebooted, logon as root, use a web tool to download the compressed tar file "postinstallation.tar.gz" into the "/root" directory.
Unpack the compressed tar file and run the hostsetup script the MFCF.postinstallation directory.
cd /root; tar zxvf postinstallation.tar.gz
chown -R root.root MFCF.postinstallation
cd MFCF.postinstallation; ./hostsetup -v
To use the ide cdrw we need to enable the ide-scsi pseudo device driver by adding the line append="hdc=ide-scsi" to the "/etc/lilo.conf" file and rerunning lilo. The "/etc/lilo.conf" file ends up looking like
boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message lba32 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2 label=RedHat_7.1 read-only root=/dev/hda2 append="hdc=ide-scsi" other=/dev/hda1 label=Win2k
# /etc/printcap # ljp_cs|lp:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljp_cs:\ :mx#0:\ :rm=print.math:\ :rp=ljp_cs:\ :bk=true:\ :nline_after_file=true:\ :lpd_bounce=true: ljp_3016:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljp_3016:\ :mx#0:\ :rm=print.math:\ :rp=ljp_3016:\ :bk=true:\ :nline_after_file=true:\ :lpd_bounce=true:
And then run "checkpc -V -f" after creating the file to create the necessary print spool directories.