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The beta release of the Debian Installer, identified as Sarge i386
Netinst and dated 9 Nov 2003, was downloaded as an ISO image from
https://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/i386/.
Booting from CD-ROM was arranged from the BIOS by going into the boot
device menu (F12) and choosing CD-ROM. For the Debian install choose
English (USA)--choosing Australia results in a bad keyboard amp.
There is no DHCP on the local network so a static network was
configured. Create partitions: 9GB ext3 for /, 70GB ext3 for /home,
and 1GB for swap. Sarge was chosen as the mirror. The driver for the SCSI
RAID was loaded by going to another virtual terminal (C-A-F2) and
loading it with modprobe aacraid. Then C-A-F1 and
Choose Detect Hardware. Now partition the (420GB) into 10GB
ext3 for /, 390GB ext3 for /home and 10GB for swap.
This is too much for swap - seems to only recognise 2GB. Choose to
install GRUB (on hd0), then reboot.
Configure the clock as GMT (although it might not be GMT at present,
it is the usual set up) and the time zone is Australia/ACT. Choose to
use Shadow Passwords. Add Root and User accounts. For apt choose http
with the US mirrors.kernel.org. Don't do any task selection for now.
No specific exim4 options need be selected - set up as a satellite
system.
Note that the hostname remained as localhost. I had to change this as
below.
Now the setup begins. Install wajig
ssh
emacs21
less
most. Use
visudo to set up wajig
usage for a user.
Install kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686.
Correct the host name with the command hostname caravan then
emacs /etc/hostname and emacs /etc/hosts.
Install ntpdate
to set the system clock accurately from a
reliable server (e.g., ntp.togaware.com). Install
ntp-simple
to regularly update the clock.
Set up ssh from remote accounts if you like:
$ scp athens:.ssh/id_dsa .ssh/
$ scp athens:.ssh/authorized_keys2 .ssh/authorized_keys
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Similarly copy any setup files from remote hosts:
$ scp athens:{.bashrc,.bash_profile} .
$ scp athens:{.emacs,.emacs-custom,.emacs-kayon} .
$ scp athens:{.xsession,.Xresources} .
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Set up apt
appropriately:
# mv /etc/apt-get/sources.list /etc/apt-get/sources.list.orig
# scp athens:/etc/apt-get/sources.list /etc/apt-get/sources.list
$ wajig update
$ wajig dist-upgrade
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Get X Windows working with the nVidia card by installing
x-window-system
gnome
gdm
gdm-themes
cinepaint
xine-ui.
See Section 96.1.1 for details on installing the nvidia
driver for accelerated graphics.
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