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	142.204.133.122	Installed Fink, libIDL (as part of orbit), and glib
china	PC	T1045E - cubicle B	142.204.133.121	F8 + Vista installed
tba	PC	T1045E - cubicle C	142.204.133.123	optical drive not working, no s/w installed, network jack providing local access only
newzealand	PC	T1045E - cubicle D	142.204.133.124	F8 installed, network jack not working
tba	Mac mini	T1045H - cubicle E	142.204.133.101	need to set admin password, needs XCode and libraries installed - download Fink from here (http://www.finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php) for Leopard version, follow directions to unpack, then /sw/bin/pathsetup.sh to set up the path to fink - then fink install orbit orbit-dev and sudo apt-get glib
ireland	PC	T1045H - cubicle F	142.204.133.102	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

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