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Linux Server Install (Fedora)
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Linux Server installation:
1. Use the disk one and reboot the machine.
2. Enter at the prompt to boot from CD.
3. You can verify the integrity of media if you like or you can skip if you are confident the media is ok.
4. Select 'Boot Fedora-Live-i686'
5. Click on Fedora Live to login as Fedora User (or wait till the system logs in automatically as Fedora User)
6. Launch 'Install to Hard Disk' from the desktop
7. Select the appropriate keyboard setting.
8. On the Disk partitioning screen, select “ Remove all partitions on selected drives and create default layout'”
a. In the partitioning information review the partitions and modify if necessary so that :
There are no LVM volume groups; (and create the rest if necessary)
Mount pt. type Size (Mb)
/boot ext3 100 Mb (atleast)
/ ext3 3000 Mb (atleast)
swap 1000 Mb (atleast)
9. Use GRUB Boot Loader. Make sure default is selected. Do not use any GRUB password
10. Edit the network device
a. Uncheck Configure using DHCP & Check Activate on boot.
b. Manually enter an available IP address that you find free. Enter the netmask as 255.255.255.0
c. Manually Set the hostname (machine name) of your choice.
b. Gateway as 192.168.x.x
c. Primary DNS: 192.168.x.x
11. Selected the correct time zone
12. Set root password
13. After the file system has been created and post-installation filesystem changes are made, shut down the system and remove the CD media.
14. Remove the CD from the drive and reboot.
15. Proceed with the wizard and agree to the license
16. Make sure firewall is enabled for FTP, SSH, Samba, HTTPS and WWW.
17. Disable SELinux setting.
18. Create users for everyone in your group
You can also create users later from
a. System -> Administration -> Users and Groups or
b. by using the command shell. # useradd –d /home –c ‘jdoe’ jdoe
i. # passwd jdoe (to change a user passwd)
ii. # useradd (for all possible options)
19. Reboot if prompted.
20. Log back in as root.
21. From System - Administration - Services, enable sshd.
a. Save and start the service.
If you make changes to the network setting, you have to reactivate the network. To do this:
System -> Administration -> Network
Devices Tab -> Deactivated and Activate.
21. From the client windows workstation log in as each user using putty. You will need ssh client to do this if it is not already on the windows workstation.
a. You can download the secure client (putty.exe) to a disk from http://www.isy.vcu.edu:8080/home.jsp?s=resources&p=software
The putty.exe file should fit on a diskette if you need to download the software outside the lab.
b. Copy the putty.exe to the windows machine and specify the server ip address. (Ensure you can ping the machine before you try to use putty.exe)
c. Yes to the finger print message and you should get the linux login.
Turn in screen dumps of
a. # whoami (one for everyone).
b. # more /etc/passwd
c. # network information (#ifconfig)
d. disk usage information (df -h).
e. firewall settings.