Suggested Server Install
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About this Page
This is the default instruction set the Tek Alchemy Staff use to install Gentoo on your systems. We have it here so you self installers can just cut and paste you a server, or as a reference to see what you might want us to do differently if we are installing it for you.
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Initial Setup
Insert the appropriate USB dongle into the machine you are working on. We usually use the 64-bit Gentoo for our 64-bit machines but our customers can request a 32-bit operating system.
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Booting
At the syslinux prompt type:
gentoo-nofb docache nodhcp
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Disk Setup
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Run fdisk on the primary disk
fdisk /dev/sda
Run fdisk on the primary disk
fdisk /dev/sda
Our current policy is: partition 1 = /boot 1024M partition 2 = swap 1024M partition 3 = / the rest of the drive
You'll create the three partitions, marking 1 & 3 as type fd ( linux raid) and 2 as 82 (linux swap)
Copy the partition information to the slave drive
sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb
- Create Raid
Setup the two mirrors for /boot and / Format the drives and mouunt for intall mknod /dev/md0 b 9 0 mknod /dev/md1 b 9 1 mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-disks=2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level=1 --raid-disks=2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 mke2fs /dev/md0 mke2fs -j /dev/md1 mkswap /dev/sda2 mkswap /dev/sdb2 swapon /dev/sdb2 swapon /dev/sda2 mount /dev/md1 /mnt/gentoo mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot mount /dev/md0 /mnt/gentoo/boot
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Getting the Install Files
- Download a Stage Tarball
cd /mnt/gentoo links http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml
navigate to releases/2006.1/amd64/ and download the stage3 tarball go back to snapshots and download portage-latest.tar.bz untar using:
tar xvjpf stage3-*.tar.bz2 tar xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr
- Setup /etc/make.conf
nano -w /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
- example config here:
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=opteron -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
USE="nptlonly -alsa java5"
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Install Base System
- Copy DNS Info / Mount file Systems / Chrooting / Portage Update
cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash env-update source /etc/profile export PS1="(chroot) $PS1"
- Edit make.conf for torpage
nano -w /etc/make.conf
paste in
SYNC="rsync://rsync.tek.net/gentoo-portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/"
FETCHCOMMAND_TORPAGE="/usr/sbin/torpage_fetch \${URI} \${DISTDIR}"
RESUMECOMMAND_TORPAGE="${FETCHCOMMAND_TORPAGE}"
- Install Torpage
mkdir -p /usr/local/portage cd /usr/local/portage scp -r rsync.tek.net:/usr/local/portage/sys-apps . cd /usr/portage/distfiles scp rsync.tek.net:/usr/portage/distfiles/torpage* . echo "sys-apps/torpage" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords emerge torpage echo "local torpage://rsync.tek.net" >> /etc/portage/mirrors emerge --sync
- Emerge and Build Kernel
cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/CST6CDT /etc/localtime emerge hardened-sources cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig
I need a place to attach or direct people to files, maybe a samba share
make && make modules modules_install cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot cp System.map /boot
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Configuring the System
- Edit fstab
nano -w /etc/fstab change BOOT to md0 change ROOT to md1 change SWAP to /dev/sda2 copy the swap line and change /dev/sda2 to /dev/sdb2
- Networking Information
nano -w /etc/conf.d/hostname change localhost to the hostname of your new machine
nano -w /etc/conf.d/net Use this as a template, it's commented out so we will use dhcp on next reboot
#dns_servers_lo=( "192.168.0.130" ) #dns_domain_lo="triand.com" #config_eth0=( "192.168.0.104 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.0.255" ) #config_eth1=( "10.0.0.104 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 10.0.0.255" ) #routes_eth1=( "default gw 10.0.0.39" )
- Start Networking at Boot
rc-update add net.eth0 default cd /etc/init.d ln -s net.lo net.eth1 rc-update add net.eth1 default rc-update add sshd default
- Set the root password
passwd
- Edit the clock settings
nano -w /etc/conf.d/clock
change CLOCK_SYSTOHC to yes set TIMEZONE="CST6CDT"
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Installing System Tools
Cut and Paste for all the fine tools
emerge syslog-ng rc-update add syslog-ng default emerge vixie-cron rc-update add vixie-cron default emerge dhcpcd emerge mdadm rc-update add mdadm default mdadm --detail --scan >> /etc/mdadm.conf echo "MAILADDR jason@triand.com" >> /etc/mdadm.conf emerge grub
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Configuring the Bootloader
- Create grub.conf
nano -w /boot/grub/grub.conf
Cut and Paste
# Which listing to boot as default. 0 is the first, 1 the second etc. default 0 # How many seconds to wait before the default listing is booted. timeout 10 # Nice, fat splash-image to spice things up :) # Comment out if you don't have a graphics card installed splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz # title=Gentoo Linux # Partition where the kernel image (or operating system) is located root (hd0,0) kernel /bzImage root=/dev/md1
- Install on both hard drives
grub device (hd0) /dev/sda root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) device (hd0) /dev/sdb root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) quit
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Reboot the System
exit cd umount /mnt/gentoo/boot /mnt/gentoo/proc /mnt/gentoo/dev /mnt/gentoo reboot
