Lab46 Wiki

Upon bootup hit F12 to enter the Boot Menu

Goto System Setup

Chose Integrated Devices

Select Integrated NIC set option to On w/ PXE

Reboot: ^<alt><del>

You should seen a screen with 4 option chose 32-Bit (i386) <enter>.

The next screen has 4 options, the one required is:
Debian/i386 Netboot. install Lenny stable[text]

Choose a language: English

Choose a country: United States Keymap: American English

Host Name: vmseverXY
X=bank number (0 or 1) and Y= system number is system in bank (1-4)

Domain Name:student.lab

Debian archive mirror country: Scroll to the top, chose 'Enter informatin Manually'

Next mirror

NOTE: Use the default settings for the next 3 options Debian archive mirror hostname: mirror

Debian archive mirror directory: /debian/

HTTP proxy information: <leave blank>

Time Zone: Eastern

Partitioning method: Use entire disk

Select disk to partition: IDE1 master (hda)

Partitioning Scheme: All files in partition

Write the changes to the disk: Yes

Root password: <enter password> <enter>

Verify: <reenter password> <enter>

Name of user: <A> <enter> This will be removed later but you are forced to enter a user id

Verify user account: <enter>

Username of account: <A> <enter>

Password for the user: <A> <enter>

Verify Password: <A> <enter>

Participate in the package usage survey: No <enter>

Software Selection Screen : <Uncheck all options> click continue

Install Grub on Master Boot Sector: Yes <enter>

Once the system is done installing the operating system it will reboot

At the login screen: login with root <enter>

Password: <root password> <enter>

userdel -r A <enter> This removes the userid we created earlier.

Next we need to get an update the systems package database and preform upgrades.

cd /etc/apt <enter>

mv sources.list sources.list.bak <enter>

wget http://10.80.2.6/files/student/sources.list <enter>

aptitude update <enter>

aptitude upgrade <enter>

aptitude search ssh <enter>

aptitude install openssh-client openssh-server <enter>

Do you want to contine (Y/n) chose Y

aptitude install xen-linux-system-2.6.26-2-xen-686 xen-tools

Do you want to contine (Y/n) chose Y

cd /etc <enter>

Vi modules <enter>

Move down to loop and concatenate max_loop= 255 to the end of the line. Then save the file. !wq

Line looks like 'loop max_loop=255'

cd /etc/xen <enter>

vi xend-config.sxp <enter>

verify that these two lines are un-commented (if commented remove the # at the beginning of each line)

(network-script network-bridge)
(vif-script vif-bridge)

Comment out this line ( inserting a # as the first character of the line)

(network-script network-dummy)

Save file: !wq

cd /boot/grub

vi menu.lst

Edit the following line as indicated:

			title           Xen 3.2-1-i386 / Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-xen-686
			root            (hd0,0)
Add text in quotes==>	kernel          /boot/xen-3.2-1-i386.gz "dom0_mem=262144"
			module          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-xen-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro console=tty0
			module          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-xen-686

Delete			title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-xen-686
Delete			root            (hd0,0)
Delete			kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-xen-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet
Delete			Initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-xen-686

Delete			title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-xen-686 (single-user mode)
Delete			root            (hd0,0)
Delete			kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-xen-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro single
Delete			initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-xen-686**

Save file: !wq

cd /etc/xen-tools

vi xen-tools.conf

Make changes to file so the output look like:

  dir = /xen
  install-method = debootstrap
  size   = 2Gb      # Disk image size.
  memory = 128Mb    # Memory size
  swap   = 128Mb    # Swap size
  fs     = ext3     # use the EXT3 filesystem for the disk image.
  dist   = lenny    # Default distribution to install.
  image  = full     # Specify sparse vs. full disk images.
  dhcp = 1
  passwd = 1
  kernel      = /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r`
  initrd      = /boot/initrd.img-`uname -r`
  mirror = http://mirror/debian/
  ext3_options   = noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro
  ext2_options   = noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro
  xfs_options    = defaults
  reiser_options = defaults
  serial_device = hvc0 #default
  disk_device = xvda #default
  output    = /xen/conf
  extension = .cfg

NOTE: These lines are not all together in the file please but are in this order.

Save file: !wq

mkdir /xen

mkdir /xen/images

mkdir /xen/boot

mkdir /xen/conf

mkdir /xen/save