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ATOL: Installation of Linux Server
Marek Grác
xgrac@fi.muni.cz
Red Hat Czech s.r.o. / Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
Advanced Topics of Linux Administration
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Participant Introductions
Please introduce yourself to the rest of the class
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Objectives of PV209
Audience -- Linux or UNIX system administrators, network
specialist and other UNIX or Linux power users
Prerequisites -- Experience in UNIX or Linux at the power
user, network operations, or system administrator level
Technical Objective -- Train specific concepts and skills at
the system administrator level
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The Big Picture
Foundation: Building Block
System operations
Management: Keep It Running
System level maintenance
Networking: Connecting
Establishing and securing
Services: The Enterprise
Infrastructure and applications
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Selecting appropriate Linux distribution I
Desktop-oriented vs Server-oriented
Community vs Enterprise
Rolling updates vs Certification process
New versions vs Backporting
Fixing security bugs vs Fixing bugs
Long term support
Tools for automatization routine tasks
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Selecting appropriate Linux distribution II
SOHO segment
Enterprise segment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Mandriva Corporate Server
Oracle Unbreakable Linux, CentOS
Ubuntu LTS, Debian stable
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Accessing the Installer
Graphical Installation
VNC based Installation
Activate with vnc and protect the session with vncpassword=
Set network parameters with ip= and netmask=
Text based Installation
Serial Installation
Used automatically when no graphic card is detected
Enable with: serial=device
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Installation Overview
Installation Method
Local CD/DVD ROM
Hard drive
NFS image
FTP / HTTP
Language and keyboard installation
Disk partitioning
Bootloader configuration
Network and time zone configuration
Package selection
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Configuring File Systems
Must select mount points, partition sizes, and file system
types in installer
Typical mount points: /boot, /home, /usr, /opt
Swap space is typically 2x physical RAM
Mount point / must include /etc, /lib, /bin and /sbin
/boot filesystem about 100MB in size to hold files needed by
the BIOS at boot time. One limitation on /boot is that most
boot loaders expect it to be on a normal disk partition or
RAID 1 device.
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Kickstart
kickstart (RHEL), autoinstall (SLES)
Scripted Installation method
/root/anaconda-ks.cfg is automatically created during
install
system-config-kickstart, ksvalidator
Installation methods
ks boot option have to be used
linux ks=http://server/path/to/kickstart
linux ks=nfs://server:file
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Lab: Installation
Goals:
Successfully install selected Linux distribution
Create a kickstart configuration file and perform automatic
installation
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Lab: Prepare a paper
Themes:
Compare kickstart, autoinstall and other methods of automatic
installation (1 person)
Compare binary package format (deb, rpm, tgz, . . . )
Format:
Short presentation (15­20 minutes; 5-7 slides)
Paper containing comparision (500 words)
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