CDOT Development Systems

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The new equipment has arrived! Let's get it configured. Tuesday, February 19 is Config Day -- if you have some available time, please come down to the ORI area and help set things up. OSD600 will be held in the ORI space on that day.

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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)
  • 1 GB /etc filesystem
  • 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