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Installing Debian
Ideally - you should boot using a Debian installer that uses the serial console. If you can't - just install the normal way.
Prepare your laptop - Screen
- Install screen on your debian laptop:
sudo aptitude install screen
- Connect your serial cable (or USB - serial cable) from your laptop to the server. You may want to check dmesg after plugging in the cable to see which device is being used. You should have a line along the lines of:
usb 3-1: PL-2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0
- Start screen with:
mkdir screen-log cd screen-log screen -L /dev/ttyUSB0 115200
Install Linux
Initial steps
- Put in Daniel's Serial Console debian installer and boot (note - if you don't have a serial installer, use a normal installer and a keyboard and monitor attached to the server)
- [Skipping easy steps]
- For DNS servers, enter tachanka, followed by a HE server, followed by a verizon dns server:
209.51.169.83 65.19.176.2 151.202.0.85
- Manually partition the drive
- Remove any existing partitions.
- Add one partition (on each disk if there are two disks) that is:
250 MB Physical volume for RAID array (or ext3 if one disk system)
- Add a second parition (on each disk if there are two disks) that is:
Takes up remaining space Physical volume for RAID array (or Physical volume for LVM if one disk system)
- Choose "Congifure software RAID" (skip step if one disk system)
- Choose "Create MD Device"
- Choose RAID1
- Number of active devices: 2
- Number of spare devices: 0
- Now select the first partition on each device.
- Click Continue. Repeat for second partition on each device.
- When you are done, click Finish. Now you are back at the partition menu.
- Scroll down to the raid devices (or apply straight to your partitions if it's a one disk system). Modify as follows:
250 MB RAID device: Filesystem: ext3, mount on /boot Remaining: Physical Volume for LVM
- Choose "Congifure LVM"
- Create a volume group called
vg_
nameofserver0
- Create logical volumes in this volume group based on your needs. A
dom0
will only need a 1GB root partition. A "normal" server might need a 1 GB root, 3GB/usr
, 5 GB/var
and 512 MB swap. - After returning to the main disk config menu, click on each logical volume that you create and specify how it should be formatted and mounted.
- Enter root password in resource db or give to Jamie!
- Create a second user for yourself.
- Do not install the server package or the base package - deselect all of them.