CDOT Development Systems

This page may be obsolete.
It contains historical information.

These machines are in the CDOT area on the first floor of the TEL building.

Ground Rules

1. Take responsibility for your actions.
2. Don't blow up other people's stuff.
3. Expect other people to blow up your stuff.
4. Don't turn these machines off.
5. Before rebooting, check with the other logged-in users, and check on #seneca on IRC on both Freenode and Moznet.
6. Work under your own account, using root as sparingly as possible. If you need additional accounts, create them, but put your name in the comment (GCOS) field.
7. Don't create public services.
8. These machines are never backed up. Backup your own stuff, frequently.

IP Information

Contact a CDOT faculty member or administrative support person for information on IP addresses.

Disk Space

Keep an eye on disk space -- both your own usage and the free space on the machine. Delete stuff you don't need (especially temp files and build debris).

Many of the CDOT Linux machines have unassigned storage within their volume group. If you need additional space in a filesystem and know how to use LVM safely, feel free to allocate additional space as needed, but do not assign more space than required for your work (it's easier to add space to a filesystem than to remove it to add it to another filesystem). If you do not know how to administer LVM safely, ask an experienced user to add space to the filesystem for you -- it's very easy to destroy a filesystem. Please experiment with and learn about LVM on your own systems or in a virtual machine.

Virtual Machines

Please feel free to configure KVM virtual machines on the PCs. Because virtualization technologies conflict, please discuss the use of other hypervisors before deploying them.

When using virtual machines, please:

• Shutdown the VM when not in use

Machine names, IPs, and Status

Please update this information as you work on the machines' configuration.
Click on a machine name to go to the page for that system. Please record details on that page about how the system is being used. A sample machine pages is located at CDOT_Development_Systems/ExampleSystem

Hostname	Type	Location	IP	OS	Notes	Monitor(s)	Disk	RAM	Video	Motherboard	CPU
iraq	PC - Quad i7	T1045C	142.204.133.80	F16		Dual LCD	2x2TB	12G	Nvidia - dual monitors		930 (Quad i7 2.8GHz)
romania	PC - Quad i7	T1045C	142.204.133.82	F16		Dual LCD	2x2TB	12G	Nvidia - dual monitors		930 (Quad i7 2.8GHz)
germany	PC - Quad Core, 8GB, 1TB	T1045D	142.204.133.24	Fedora 10 32-bit		DELL 4001	1TB	8GB - 4 banks	Intel	Intel DQ45CB	Intel Q6600
india	PC - Quad Core, 8GB, 1TB	T1045B	142.204.133.28	F12		Viewsonic VA2226w (VSC 2051)	1TB	8GB - 4 banks	Intel	Intel DQ45CB	Intel Q6600
canada	20" iMac	1045A	142.204.133.123	OS X 10.5.6		Built-in
russia	20" iMac	T1045	142.204.133.101	OS X 10.5.6		Built-in
easterisland	Mac mini	T1045H - cubicle E	142.204.133.121	Mozilla build environment installed: Xcode, MacPorts, Mercurial, Autoconf, libidl	Currently awaiting re-installation	Samsung Syncmaster 245B	Internal + FW
spain	Mac mini	T1045E - cubicle A	142.204.133.122	Mozilla build environment installed: Xcode, MacPorts, Mercurial, Autoconf, libidl		Samsung Syncmaster 245B	Internal + FW
china	PC - 8 cores, 12 Gb, 4 TB	T1045E - cubicle B	142.204.133.36	Windows 7		2 x SyncMaster 2443	2 x 2 TB generic Hard drives	12GB - 4 banks	nVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti	Intel DX58SO2	Intel Core i7 950 @ 3.07GHz (8 CPUs)
liberia	PC -Quad Core, 8 GB, 1TB	T1045E - cubicle C	142.204.133.122	Windows 7		SyncMaster 2443 - Dual Monitors	1TB	8GB	nVidia GeForce 8600 GT	Intel DQ35JO	Intel Core2 Quard CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz 2.30GHz
newzealand	PC - Quad core, 8 GB, 4TB	T1045C	142.204.133.81	F16		Samsung 1080P x 2	2X2TB	8GB - 4 banks	nVidia GeForce 8600 GT (?)	?	Intel Q6600
peru	27" iMac		142.204.133.7	Mac OS/X
poland	27" iMac		142.204.133.26	Mac OS/X
hongkong	PC - Quad Core	Armory	142.204.133.150	F15	Function: Koji hub/web Services: apache (httpd)	KVM	Layout: 4x2TB Disks Config: raid 1 (primary partitions) Config: raid 5 (data partitions)	12GB	ATI	Intel	i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz
ireland	PC - Quad core	Armory	142.204.133.153	F15	Function: database Services: PostgreSQL	KVM	Layout: 500GB, 2x128GB (solid state), 2TB, 1.5TB Config: raid 1 (data partitions)	8GB	NVIDIA	Intel	Core2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
chile	PC - Quad core	Armory	142.204.133.101	F15	Function: Koji repo Services: NFS export	KVM	Layout: 3x2TB, 3x600GB (solid state) Config: raid 0 (solid state partitions) Config: raid 1 (mechanical partitions)	12G	NVIDIA	Intel	i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz
australia	PC - Quad Core	Armory	142.204.133.152	F15	Function: Koji Scratch Services: NFS exports	KVM	Layout: 1TB, 4x160GB (solid state) Config: raid 0 (solid state partitions)	8GB	Intel	Intel	Core2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
bahamas	PC - Quad Core	Tel 1045V	142.204.133.79	F16	Function: Developer PC, Virtualization Host, Web Server	2x Samsung SyncMaster 2443	Layout: 2x2TB Raid 1	8GB	Nvidia GTX 470 1GB	Intel	Q6600

Tip:

These hostnames have all been added to the cdot.proximity.on.ca domain for convenience. If you add that domain to your search domains in your DNS configuration, you can refer to the CDOT hosts by name. If you are using Linux or Mac OSX, you can add a search domain in your /etc/resolv.conf file by editing the search line:

search whatever.was.already.here.com cdot.proximity.on.ca

To configure this on a Linux/Unix/OSX system for which you do not have administrative rights, use the LOCALDOMAIN environment variable. For example, you could add this line to your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile:

export LOCALDOMAIN="cdot.proximity.on.ca senecac.on.ca senecacollege.ca"

Alternately, you can append the machine names and IPs to the hosts file (/etc/hosts on Linux and Mac OSX, c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on Windows) -- do not delete the existing contents of that file, just add this text:

# CDOT host file - from http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php?title=CDOT_Development_Systems - 2009.01.28 version:
142.204.133.7       canada
142.204.133.22      scotland
142.204.133.152      australia
142.204.133.25      russia
142.204.133.153      ireland
142.204.133.28      india
142.204.133.150      hongkong
142.204.133.36      china
142.204.133.121     easterisland
142.204.133.122     spain
142.204.133.123     liberia
142.204.133.124     newzealand

After doing this, you can access the machines by name: ssh userid@liberia

Equipment

• Four PCs - quad-core, 8GB RAM, 1TB disk
• Four PCs - quad-core, 4GB RAM, 500GB disk
• One PC - quad-core, 8GB RAM, 6*1.5TB disk
• Two Mac Minis - dual-core, 2GB RAM, 120GB disk + external drive, 24" displays
• Two iMacs - dual-core, 4GB RAM, ???GB disk, 20" display

Configuration

• On the 64-bit PCs:
  • Install the current version of Fedora as the base OS
  • Use virtual machines (KVM) as necessary:
    • Linux (Fedora or other)
    • Windows Vista
    • Windows XP SP3
• Some PCs will have Windows XP/Vista installed as the base OS (for high-performance video access, i.e., Canvas3D):
  • NewZealand
• Install the toolchain(s) required (e.g., for Mozilla development - Win/Linux/Mac)

PC Partitioning

500GB Drives

Drives are ~500 GB:

• Partition 1: 150 GB NTFS containing XP SP2
• Partition 2: 100 GB NTFS containing Vista
• Partition 3: 100 MB Linux boot partition
• Partition 4: Extended partition
• Partitions 5-9: 50 GB Linux LVM PVs (last one will be smaller)

Linux LVM LV layout:

• 50 GB / filesystem (ext3)
• 80 GB /home filesystem (ext3)
• 50 GB /var filesystem

1TB Drives

Drives are ~1000 GB:

• Partition 1: 200 MB ext3 /boot
• Partition 2: 200 MB ext3 /boot2
• Partition 3: 200GB LVM PV
• Partition 4: Extended partition
• Partitions 5-9: 200GB LVM PV (last one sized as needed)

Linux LVM LV layout:

• 50 GB / filesystem (ext3)
• 50 GB /home filesystem (ext3)
• 50 GB /var filesystem
• 8 GB swap filesystem

2x2TB Drives

• Drive 1
  • Partition 1: 500M /boot
  • Partition 2: 500G PV
  • Partition 3: 500G PV
  • Partition 4: 500G PV
  • Partition 5: 500G PV

• Drive 2
  • Partition 1: 500G PV
  • Partition 2: 500G PV
  • Partition 3: 500G PV
  • Partition 4: 500G PV

Initial Linux LVM LV layout:

• 100G / ext4
• 1T /home ext4

Software to be installed

(Remember, other tools can be added later!)

• Build tools required for Mozilla build (Win/Linux/Mac). NOTE: use VS.NET Pro on Win32 vs. Express
• PuTTY on WinXP/Vista
• Current version of FF and TB

Mac installed software

• Xcode3.0
• fink - (http://www.finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php)
  • download tarball, untar and ./boostrap (prees enter all the time to choose default)
  • . /sw/bin/pathsetup.sh
  • fink selfupdate-cvs
  • fink install orbit orbit-dev
  • sudo apt-get glib

Computer setup

Windows setup

1. I used CPUID to discover the motherboard
2. Install ethernet drivers (Installed PRO2KXP.exe -- Ver:12.4 -- Date:2/24/2008 -- Size:11414 KB)
3. http://www.windowsupdate.com until you get all updates

Network setup

* 142.204.133.65   Gateway
* 255.255.255.192  Netmask
* 142.204.43.43    DNS 1
* 142.204.1.2      DNS2

Security

• Disable remote root/admin login on all operating systems.

Accounts

• Please create an account for yourself and use it for all development work on these machines.

Resources

• Reinstalling GRUB (needed to restore access to Linux when Windows is installed after Linux): http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/161-System-Recovery-Week-Dealing-with-Disk-Images.html