CDOT Development Systems
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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.
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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 Build Time real 54m31.010s user 31m21.000s sys 5m59.475s |
| china | PC | T1045E - cubicle B | 142.204.133.121 | F8+XP+Vista installed, only F8 boots (!) |
| liberia | PC | T1045E - cubicle C | 142.204.133.125 | optical drive fixed (cables), F8+Vista+XP installed, only F8 boots (!), network jack permits local access only |
| newzealand | PC | T1045E - cubicle D | 142.204.133.124 | 1)boot partition removed 2) installed ONLY XP 3)ethernet drivers installed |
| easterisland(to be set) | Mac mini | T1045H - cubicle E | 142.204.133.101 | Xcode, fink, orbit and glib installed Build time: real 26m48.986s user 34m17.020s sys 6m9.530s |
| 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
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's setup
Windows setup
- I used CPUID to discover the motherboard
- Install ethernet drivers (Installed PRO2KXP.exe -- Ver:12.4 -- Date:2/24/2008 -- Size:11414 KB)
- 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
