CDOT Development Systems

The new equipment has arrived! Tuesday, February 19 was Config Day, but there's lots left to do. If you have some available time, please help set things up.

Machine names, IPs, and Status

Please update this information as you work on the machines' configuration.

Hostname	Type	Location	IP	Status
spain	Mac mini	T1045E - cubicle A	-	needs libraries
china	PC	T1045E - cubicle B	142.204.133.121	F8 + Vista installed
tba	PC	T1045E - cubicle C	-	optical drive not working, no s/w installed, network jack providing local access only
newzealand	PC	T1045E - cubicle D	-	F8 installed, network jack not working
tba	Mac mini	T1045H - cubicle E	-	needs XCode and libraries installed
ireland	PC	T1045H - cubicle F	142.204.133.101	F8 installed, peterevanoff did debug build in 3:50!

Equipment

• Four PCs - quad-core, 4GB RAM, 500GB disk, dual 22" displays on each
• Two Mac Minis - dual-core, 2GB RAM, 120GB disk + external drive, 24" displays

Goals

• Get each of the PCs configured for triple-boot. Install in the following order:
  • Windows XP SP2
  • Windows Vista
  • Fedora Core 8
• Install the toolchain required to build mozilla on each platform (Win/Linux/Mac)
• Perform a test build on each platform

PC Partitioning

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 PV layout:

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

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 FF2 and TB

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