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Desk Top Install

Installing the Debian OS

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[GUI] Choose a language: English Choose a country: United States Keymap: American English Host Name: T-bird Domain Name: offbyone.lan Debian archive mirror country: Scroll to the top, chose 'Enter information Manually' Next enter 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 the Hard Drive ==== 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: mustange <enter> Verify user account: <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
    Note: You could chose to install the gnome application at this time. I did not. 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> ==== Installing Patches ==== mv source.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> apt-get install xorg reboot ===== GNOME Desk Top Install ===== Login as root apt-get install aptitude tasksel tasksel install gnome-desktop –new-install
    Note: there will be some defaults to take. I chose the pc104 key broad option reboot Login as user “mustange” ===== Compiz Install ===== Open a root terminal screen Enter root password. at the prompt type:
    apt-get install compiz compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-gnome compiz-gtk <enter> Next we need to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file cd /etc/X11
    cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.bak vi xorg.conf add a new section just befor the [Section “Device”] Section “Extensions”

Option “Composite” “enable” EndSection next go to the bottom of the Section “Device” and insert a line above EndSection. On the line you inserted type: Option “XAANoOffscreenPixmaps” “true”**

save and exit the file

Then type: compiz –replace
you may see some errors these can be ignored.

reboot

Login as mustange after the reboot open a terminal and type:
echo “export WINDOW_MANAGER=/usr/bin/compiz” » ~/.gnomerc

logout and back in. Compiz should be running under the Gnome desktop.

user/jbrant/csit1320/project2.txt · Last modified: 2010/02/14 17:13 by jbrant