Setting up a 4.11 machine

Installation (from CD-ROM):

If you are not sure about some installation steps, go to FreeBSD Tutorials and look for the Installation Details. It helps in many cases.

• Enter or insert a bootable 4.11 CD.
• Select kernel configuration in full-screen visual mode. Expand storage option (i.e. press ENTER on storage). DEL on aic device - it's a sound card causing an interrupt conflict - press Q to save and exit.
• Use standard installation
  • OK to fdisk alert
  • Select drives (Spc) (at least the one where the OS will reside). Note: This is only when the PC has more than one hard disks.
  • Ok to alert (but note we do not use auto.)
  • Create (c) only one slice (use the entire hard disk and the use default type.)
  • Quit (q).
  • Select Boot Manager. NOTE: This is the usual option. However, I recently ran into problems with it because the FreeBSD loader cannot load the kernel. If you have this problem, use the standard MBR (02/09/01 - Long).
  • Ok to partitioning alert.
  • Partition the hard disk (create them with (c)):

        /         128M
        /var      128M
        /tmp      128M  
        SWAP      640M (2.5 times the amount of memory is a good rule of thumb.)
        /usr      all that's left

  • additional disks, if present, are partitioned as playpen space (mount points are /playpen1, /playpen2, and so forth.)
  • Quit (q).
  • In choose distribution select "8 User".
  • Port collection: say NO.
  • Go back to Choose Distribution screen and Exit.
  • Use CD/DVD as the Installation Media.
  • Keep going after the "User confirmation requested" alert.
  • (Creating file systems...)
  • See congratulation message, press OK.
  • Say yes to configure Ethernet or SLIP/PPP network interface(s).
  • Select network interface.
  • Say no to IPv6 installation.
  • Say no to DHCP installation.
  • Type in hostname, domain name, gateway, name server, IP address, netmask.

        Example:    hostname: pinky
                    domain name: cs.unc.edu
                    gateway: 152.2.254.254
                    name server: 152.2.131.228
                    IP address: 152.2.137.33
                    net mask: 255.255.0.0

  • Say No to "would you like to bring up the network interface right now?" prompt.
  • Say No to "do you want this machine to be a gateway?" prompt.
  • Say No to "do you want to configure inetd and network service"
  • Configure host not to allow anonymous FTP.
  • Configure host not to be a NFS server, unless you know you will be hosting NFS mounts on this machine.
  • Configure host to be a NFS client.
  • Say No to the prompt "Do you want to select a Default security profile for this host?"
  • Say yes to System Console settings. Use Daemon as your Screen Saver.
  • Configure keyboard and Exit the menu.
  • Configure timezone (no to UTC and select North and South Americas -> United States -> Eastern Time).
  • Say no to installation for port collection.
  • Say yes to linux_enable
  • Configure mouse (Test and enable mouse daemon. If it doesn't work, no problem.)
  • Say No to FreeBSD package collection.
  • Say No adding more users.
  • Create root account, type in root password.
  • Say No to "Last chance for configuration" warning.
  • Exit to reboot.

DiRT setup:

• Add hostname into /etc/exports on tyagi if needed (to give mount permission to the new host). Restart the NFS server "kill -HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`" for csh or "kill -SIGHUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`" for bash.
• Get /usr/dirt/bin/init_dirt_4.11 from tyagi and run it to mount NFS directories like /usr/dirt.
• Run the following scripts from /usr/dirt/bin:
  • add_pkgs_dirt_4.11 /usr/dirt/dist/pkgs_4.11.no_X
  • init_misc_4.11
  • add_dirt_users
  • install_firewall_4.11
  • install_kernel_4.11
  • VERY IMPORTANT: if you are planning to use this machine as production machine with an ipfw tcp established tunnel, you need a DIRT kernel and its corresponding ipfw executable.
• UPDATE this part (if you have to install X or anything else not mentioned here)

Testing:

• ping tyagi and other hosts
• nslookup
• finger important people like the profs and senior grad students
• df -h
• try a non-root login to see if it works

Ashish Awasthi & Lu Ping

Last modified: Wed Sep 21 12:31:00 EST 2005