Linux Redhat 9.0 Shrike install
Pick workstation mode - for software development
Installing to 8 GB drive, so chose to automatically partition.
Firewall: Medium
Allow incoming: WWW, FTP, SSH, DHCP, Telnet
Custom Package selection:
Server Configuration Tools
Web Server
Windows File Server
FTP Server
Network Servers (telnet server)
VNC server
Kernel Development
System Tools (Samba client)
VNC
This adds up to about 2.1 GB of operating system data.
problem with xpdf-2.01-8 on CD#2 (Applications Publishing) - CD image may have been corrupt.
So I have a wireless ADM8211 network card that is not working. I searched
for a driver, then finally found one at here.
I downloaded the latest version of the driver, which was adm8211-20041121.tar.bz2. Reading
the INSTALL file, I found out that it doesn't support the 2.4 Linux kernel. Redhat
9.0 uses the version 2.4 Linux kernel. The final version of the
driver that will support the 2.4 kernel is adm8211-20041111.tar.bz2.
Since there is no network to transfer the file, I had to copy it to a DOS formatted
floppy, then mount under Linux to copy to the hard drive.
mkdir /mnt/flop
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/flop
ls /mnt/flop
cp /mnt/flop/adm8211-20041111.tar.bz2 .
umount /mnt/flop
tar jxvf adm8211-20041111.tar.bz2
Extract Linux sources
cd /usr/src
tar jxf linux-2.4.25-chw.tar.bz2
rm linux
ln -s linux-2.4.25-chw linux
cd linux
make oldconfig dep
mv ~/adm8211 /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless
cd drivers/net/wireless/adm8211/
make
make install
modprobe adm8211
lsmod
netconfig
Enter networking information
ifup eth0
ifconfig eth0
iwconfig eth0 essid my_essid
iwconfig eth0 key my_key
iwconfig eth0 channel 7
cd /etc/network/
cp -p interfaces interfaces.bak
vi interfaces
Add the following lines to the end of the interfaces file:
iface eth0 inet dhcp
or to set a static address:
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.99
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
wireless_essid my_essid
wireless_key my_wireless_key
wireless_channel 7
change the auto line to automatically start the eth0 interface:
auto lo eth0
ifup eth0
ping www.cdrom.com to see if ethernet card works.
Need to get wireless card to start on boot, as well as set the network to a
static IP.
cd /etc
cp -p modules modules.bak
vi modules
Add adm8211 to the end of that file
Enable Telnet
System Settings > Server Settings > Services
Put checkmark by Telnet and Save settings.
Bring up command prompt to see if it works.
# telnet localhost
Worked.
Enable FTP server
System Settings > Server Settings > Services
Put checkmark by vsftpd
Click Start button
Save Settings
Worked.
Can manually start this way:
# cd /etc/rc.d/init.d
# ./vsftpd start
Enable HTTPD server
System Settings > Server Settings > Services
Put check by httpd
Click Restart
Save Settings
Worked
disable xscreensaver - takes up too much CPU
cd /usr/bin/X11/
mv xscreensaver xscreensaver.bak
Atomic Time setup
As root:
crontab -e
Add the following two lines to the crontab file:
# update time with ntp server
0 3,9,15,21 * * * /usr/bin/rdate -s 128.2.136.71 | logger -t NTP
The -p prints out the time so it can be logged by logger into the syslog, and the -s sets the computer clock to the time that is returned.
That will update the time at 03:00, 09:00, 15:00, and 21:00 every day from the server FS1.ECE.CMU.EDU. It then sends the output to /var/log/messages.
Run crontab -l to make sure that the lines were added correctly.
The following are an example of a few NTP servers:
128.2.136.71 FS1.ECE.CMU.EDU
192.43.244.18 time.nist.gov
128.102.16.2 ns.arc.nasa.gov
192.5.41.40 tick.usno.navy.mil
Disable X11 startup in /etc/inittab
[root@localhost etc]# diff inittab inittab.bak
53c53
< #x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
---
> x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon