Installation of CentOS 6 on planck, planck2 Goal: Install centos 6 on planck,planck2 (MCC display computers). plank is only used to remotely display the MCC from t1. Date: 2018/09 1. HARDWARE planck: purchased by denault from amazon/newegg on 2018/09: Shuttle XPC SH110R4 (H1110/LGA1151), i5-6600 CPU wHD530, 16GB RAM (2x8GB DDR4 2133), samsung 860 EVO 250GB SSD. planck2: Same hardware, purchased on 2019/01. 2. DVD Install and update Installation media is centos 6.10 x86 on usb. alt+cntl+f2 for shell; alt+cntl+f6 to return to GUI desired partitions are: sda1 50G / # root Software selection: Development Workstation Created local user 'to'. (TO will be a local user). 1st reboot Turn off selinux: vi /etc/selinux/config SELINUX=disabled. Turn off filewall: sudo system-config-firewall-tui # disable the network manager. service NetworkManager stop chkconfig NetworkManager off system-config-network vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 ## make sure ONBOOT=yes add to 192.168.x.x by creating /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1 /boot/grub/menu.lst - disable 'hiddenmenu'; remove 'rhgb quiet' reboot yum update reboot make droot, mroot fix root password. yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' 'KDE Desktop' 'Office Suite and Productivity' yum install gnuplot gsl gsl-devel vnc vnc-server ImageMagick \ tk expect qt-devel rdist control-center-extra dump telnet \ mysql MySQL-python sox hg mutt IRTF Setup move /home/to to /home2/to. Assign project password. /etc/hosts - add nis servers, key tcs hostnames /etc/resolv.conf - add all DNS servers. /etc/ntp.conf - use IRTF NTP servers, and enable ntpd services: system-config-services /etc/yp.conf - configure and enable NIS: system-config-authentication, AND check yp.conf /etc/nsswitch.conf - Limited nis usage /etc/group - add staff 500, project 501 NIS client setup: chkconfig rpcbind on chkconfig ypbind on /etc/init.d/ypbind start nsf client setup: vi /etc/idmapd.conf Add "Domain=ifa.hawaii.edu" chkconfig rpcbind on chkconfig rpcidmapd on chkconfig nfslock on chkconfig netfs on /etc/auto.master, automap, auto.home - custom tcs setup to allow only: to(local), tcs(remote) - make /home2/nologin - copy nfs options from yp maps definitions make links for automounts: cd / ln -s /netdisks/htdocs ln -s /netdisks/irtf.backup rc.local - add line for screen blanck: /usr/bin/setterm -blank 0 vi /etc/ssh/ssh_config add: ForwardX11 yes Now you have a computer with 'to' local account, with access to /home/tcs3. TCS Setup More TO account setup: setup group to 10(wheel) window preferences turn off screen saver. make link: ln -s /home/tcs3/data /home/to/data setup desktop icon for start IC, MCC. Note: ssh for the IC, use 'ssh -x' option to disable X11 forwarding. (ForwardX11 yes was set above). otherwise aplay will say "audio open error: Connection refused" ic: Exec=xterm -T t1 -bg gray +sb -e ssh t1 -x -l to mcc: Exec=xterm -T t1 -bg gray +sb -e ssh t1 -l to