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** Installation | ** Installation | ||
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** Begin! | ** Begin! | ||
** Wait ~20 minutes | ** Wait ~20 minutes | ||
** Reboot (unmounting ISO) | |||
* Post Installation Configuration | |||
** Firewall: Disabled | |||
** SELinux: Disabled | |||
** NTP: Enabled, 130.102.2.15, 130.102.128.43, Synchronise system clock, Local time source | |||
** Create User: Use Network Login: LDAP for both User Information & Authentication: | |||
*** LDAP Search Base DN: dc=md,dc=smms,dc=uq,dc=edu,dc=au | |||
*** LDAP Server: ldap://lychee.md.smms.uq.edu.au/ | |||
** Sound should be OK | |||
** Reboot | ** Reboot | ||
Revision as of 08:42, 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
- Create new hard disk
- Further settings
- Video: Enable 3D acceleration
- CD/DVD-ROM: Mount Centos 5.3 DVD iso
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/hda3 (/)
- Network
- Active on boot, eth0, DHCP, Auto
- Hostname:
- Automatically via DHCP
- Time
- Australia/Brisbane time
- System clock uses UTC
- Root password
<standard workstation root password>
- Installation
- Desktop - Gnome/Desktop - KDE
- Centos Extra
- eth0/DHCP/IPv4 (for downloading packages)
- Customize later
- Begin!
- Wait ~20 minutes
- Reboot (unmounting ISO)
- Post Installation Configuration
- Firewall: Disabled
- SELinux: Disabled
- NTP: Enabled, 130.102.2.15, 130.102.128.43, Synchronise system clock, Local time source
- Create User: Use Network Login: LDAP for both User Information & Authentication:
- LDAP Search Base DN: dc=md,dc=smms,dc=uq,dc=edu,dc=au
- LDAP Server: ldap://lychee.md.smms.uq.edu.au/
- Sound should be OK
- 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.