The Procedure: Overview

• Unplug Your machine from the net
• Turn on Machine and access BIOS (F2)
• Set a Supervisor and user BIOS password
• Insert CD and enter linux text to take you into the "non-graphical setup"
• Test the DVD (if it hasn't been tested already)
• Begin the Install
• Finish the install and have a good root password and no users
• Do NOT plug the machine into the net

In the Install program:

• Choose English - US English
• Choose "Create Custom Layout" not the "default partioning"
• Choose "Review and Modify partitioning layout"
• Delete all of the the partitions that it allows you to (including the VOLgroup partition) You will not get by with the previous user's partitioning layout.
• Create the following Partitions:
  1. /boot 200 megs set as primary
  2. / 1000 megs set as primary
  3. /home 1000 megs set as primary
  4. /opt 5000 megs
  5. /tmp 1000 megs
  6. /usr 6000 megs
  7. /var 5000 megs
  8. /usr/local 250-1000 megs
  9. swap 1024 megs
  10. these are not too important but be sure that you leave at least 1 Gig free
  Be sure to leave about 1 gig that is not partitioned so that we can make another partition or 2 in the future (more about that later)
• GRUB will be installed
• Install the boot loader on the MBR (but GRUB's configs are in /boot/grub/grub.conf and other files are there too )
• Set Up the Network Information
• Set a machine name (I just entered the host portion but I don't know if that is correct or not)
• Choose the "America Chicago" time zone
• set a robust root password
• Choose customize selection and get rid of Gnome and add KDE
• do not install any of the services we do that when we go to run them

Finishing the Install:

• alt F# - will take you through the different consoles and several of them are funning during the install process. For instance my install hung up and I went to console 2 and saw that there was a zip drive in and it was reading it so I typed "eject /dev/hdb" and the install continued after the Zip was ejected.
• reboot after the packages are installed
• select Firewall Enabled at first boot
• I had to edit the default runlevel in /etc/inittab to 5
• That's basically it

What you will show me for your lab grade:

• An installed system that is ready to begin working on
• Machine boots with a Display Manager and KDE
• Prove that you have the BIOS protected
• prove that you can ping localhost
• hand me the sheet that has the BIOS passwords and the root password
• You will be ready to start more configuration next class session
• Your system documentation will be updated showing the install process by Next week at this time for A lab worth 10 points by the end of class that class period

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