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*** <code><standard workstation password></code>
*** <code><standard workstation password></code>
** Installation
** Installation
*** Desktop - Gnome/Desktop - KDE/Virtualization
*** Desktop - Gnome/Desktop - KDE
*** Centos Extra
*** Centos Extra
**** eth0/DHCP/IPv4 (for downloading packages)
**** eth0/DHCP/IPv4 (for downloading packages)
*** Customize later
*** Customize later
** Begin!
** Begin!
** Wait 4:34pm-
** Wait ~20 minutes
** Reboot





Revision as of 07:19, 22 April 2009

How to make a Centos Workstation (VM/Real Machine)

Building the VM (Virtual Machine)

  • Inside VirtualBox server, add users to vboxgroup (/etc/group), run VirtualBox, register product, create new virtual machine
    • Centos 5.3 Workstation
    • Linux, Red Hat 64-bit
    • 1.5GB RAM
    • Boot hard disk (Primary master)
      • Create new hard disk
        • Dynamically expanding storage
        • Location: /data/virtualbox/Centos.vdi
        • Size: 40.0 GB
  • Further settings

Installing Centos

  • Start VM
  • Press Enter at Centos installation screen
  • Skip media check
  • Ignore colour mode message
  • Centos Installation screen (GUI)
    • Language: English
    • US English
    • Click OK to erase all data on device hda
      • Hard disk
    • Create custom layout
    • hda 40955MB VBOX HARDDISK
    • Partitioning
      • /boot, ext3, 100MB, Fixed size, Force to be a primary partition
      • /, ext3, 18000MB, Fixed size, Force to be a primary partition
      • /usr, ext3, 18000MB, Fixed size, Force to be a primary partition
      • swap, 2048MB, Fixed size
      • /data, ext3, Fill to maximum allowable size
    • The Grub boot loader will be installed on /dev/hda
      • Default: CentOS /dev/hda2
    • Network
      • Active on boot, eth0, DHCP, Auto
    • Hostname:
      • Automatically via DHCP
    • Time
      • Australia/Brisbane time
      • System clock uses UTC
    • Root password
      • <standard workstation password>
    • Installation
      • Desktop - Gnome/Desktop - KDE
      • Centos Extra
        • eth0/DHCP/IPv4 (for downloading packages)
      • Customize later
    • Begin!
    • Wait ~20 minutes
    • Reboot


  • Centos 5.3 installation

Software

  • pymol (Dirty hack). yum install pymol. As the one from sorbonne repository gives the python shared object in 32-bit, we need to rebuild it. This involves running, inside the pymol source, python setup.py build. Then, copying the libpymol.so built to /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pymol/_cmd.so.