4397/6397 COSC Network Systems Labs (Spring 2008) Project 1 Installing Debian on the Compaq Armada 110 Objective This assignment is designed to teach you to install Linux, configure and manage the network Description In this assignment, you will install the latest testing branch of Debian on a Compaq Armada 110 laptop computer issued to you for the course. You will have to connect the laptop to a network, download and configure a kernel, and set up basic system services. This project should be accomplish individually. Installing You will be issued a copy of the Debian 4.2 stable release netinst CD 1. Boot from the CD (you may need to configure the BIOS to do this) 2. Hit enter at splash 3. Proceed following the instructions from the installer, until you hit the "partition disks" screen 4. In "partition disks" screen, choose: "Guided - use entire disk" 5. For partitioning schema, choose: "All files in one partition" 6. Proceed following the instructions from the installer, until you hit the "configure time zone" screen. the time zone is central. 7. Then you need to setup the root password. never forget your root password! 8. Use whole disk for installation(erase anything) 9. For disk layout, follow the recommended option. 11. Install grub at main mbr 10. Choose NOT to install extra software from online mirrors. (since you will update from testing sources later.) 11. Choose laptop and standard system for software package selection. 12. After the installation is finished, remove the cd and reboot. 13. Login to root account 14. wget http://songweilab.com/network-lab/debian-install/sources.list #testing branch source list 15. cp -f sources.list /etc/apt 16. apt-get update 17. apt-get -y install ntpdate # Y/Yes all the way 18. ntpdate pool.ntp.org #incorrect time may affect the update of debian packages. 19. apt-get update 20. apt-get -y dist-upgrade #upgrade to test branch. Yes/OK all the way. This may take a while 21. reboot the system. 22. login to root 23. apt-get update 24. apt-get -y install gcc tcpdump less ssh svn eclipse openoffice.org apache telnt nmap wireshark dhcpd 25. Optional: install a flull fledged X-windows system. If you feel comfortable with command line, you don't need to. apt-get -y install xorg gnome 26. Optional: install a lightweighted X-windows system. If you feel comfortable with command line, you don't need to.
26.1 apt-get -y install xorg fluxbox xterm 26.2 X software: apt-get -y install iceweasel #Firefox for debian apt-get -y install scite # If you don't know vi or emacs, this is your text editor. 26.3 configure & use fluxbox echo "fluxbox" > .xinitrc mkdir .fluxbox wget http://songweilab.com/network-lab/debian-install/menu start To X windows: cd ~;startx In fluxbox, right click to see the menu. start any other application with "run" menu iterm, or in xterm.
Networking Use command line!!! 1. Find your network cards. Run ifconfig -a to obtain a list of your network adapters. The Compaq Armada has a built-in ethernet card, which should show up as eth0. If the wireless pcmcia card is inserted, and pcmcia is enabled, you may also see an eth1 adapter which is the wireless card. 2. For wireless adapters, there is an extra step of having to connect to the wireless access point and manage encryption before negotiating IP configuration. The iwconfig command handles basic wireless configuration tasks. On the UH campus, the wireless network is called UHWireless. This is the network's essid. On an unencrypted network like UH has, this is all you need before continuing to step four. (all together, the command is iwconfig eth1 essid UHWireless) 3. If you have a wireless network that require encryption, you will need to specify an encryption key. iwconfig can accomplish this as well. (e.g. iwconfig eth1 essid example key 1234567) 4. Now you have configured your network card, you need to enable it. Simply issue "ifconfig eth1 up" to the command line 5. For regular ethernet adapters, (and wireless adapters once they have been connected to a network in the above steps) all you have to do is specify a proper IP address for the network your computer is on. 6. If the network is managed, it will typically have a dynamic host control protocol (dhcp) server and automatic co...