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Installing Debian
Come with a bootable USB stick with Debian Squeeze installed (as of 2010-05-25, all physical servers are being installed with squeeze and will be creating KVM virtual servers).
Note - to get newer Dell machines to install that have the non-free Broadcom network drivers, mount the USB installer at /mnt and then run:
aptitude download firmware-bnx2 firmware-linux firmware-linux-nonfree cp firmware* /mnt/
Initial steps
- Plug in monitor and keyboard
- Boot machine while USB stick is inserted
- Enter Bios/Setup. Specify that Bios should output to serial console
- Ensure that server skips errors like no keyboard attached
- Reboot and select Boot Options and choose to boot to USB stick
- [Skipping easy steps]
- For DNS servers, use:
Telehouse: 209.51.163.29 209.51.169.83 XO: 209.234.253.168
- 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:
- 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 the 250 MB RAID device: Filesystem: ext3, mount on /boot
- Encrypt the larger, remaining device. Give password to Jamie.
- Choose "Congifure LVM" (selecting the device encrypted in the previous step)
- Create a volume group called
vg_
nameofserver0
- Create logical volumes in this volume group based on your needs. Suggestions: 3GB for /, 1GB 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. Give to Jamie.
- Create a second user for yourself.
- Do not install the server package or the base package - deselect all of them.
Note:
See TracWiki
for help on using the wiki.