[Leaplist] September Installfest

[Phil Barnett]

On Thursday 30 August 2007, patrick wrote:
> Could we create a Live CD or DVD of the FC7 install as we use it?

Not very easily. Most of the work was done post install. About 15 hours of 
work.

> There are some educational programs that I have installed to a couple of
> the systems, but, a CD or DVD of them would simply save bandwidth.  I
> grabbed them after hours, on one system, and it took about 2 hours.

Put them on the server.

We have a server there with 88G of free disk space. It's a Compaq DL-380 with 
640M of ram. Not a lot of ram, but plenty of ram to be just a server. Samba 
is running on it. Of course, all the Linux terminals can SCP from it 
regardless of Samba.

# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:A5:75:0D:38
          inet addr:192.168.20.10  Bcast:192.168.20.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::202:a5ff:fe75:d38/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:4183105 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2399156 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1662304222 (1.5 GiB)  TX bytes:182553856 (174.0 MiB)

# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                       99G  6.6G   88G   7% /
/dev/ida/c0d0p1        99M   15M   80M  16% /boot
none                  316M     0  316M   0% /dev/shm

# ps ax | grep smb
 4683 ?        Ss     0:00 smbd -D
 4736 ?        S      0:00 smbd -D
19913 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep smb

Samba shares are configured like:

[School]
        comment = Not Teacher or Student Data
        writeable = yes
        valid users = school, at school
        path = /opt/share/school

[Teachers]
        comment = Teacher Data
        valid users = teacher, at teacher
        writeable = yes
        path = /opt/share/teacher

[Student]
        comment = Student Data
        writeable = yes
        valid users = student
        path = /opt/share/student


you can secure shell to the server from the outside at:

wwa dot dyndns dot org

You know the password.

This will allow you to pull data into the school at night with wget and have 
it waiting on the internal network for when you need it the next day.

Enjoy.

-- 
Phil Barnett
AI4OF
SKCC #600