Debian install
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Revision as of 17:20, 13 May 2006
Backup ANY Data, because during the installation all partitions will be deleted and your DATA WILL BE LOST.
Use this guide at your own risk!
This is a small Guide to replace the original Linux (and its WebInterface) with a Debian 3.0 Woody Installation
Contents |
Get an Debian image
Get an Debian image from one of the following locations:
Question: where did this tarball come from, and how hard would it be to install directly from what debian provides?
Tip: Use Firefox for download due to the fact IE will download a .tgz as a .tar
Prepare the harddisk
- Put your Kurobox in EM mode
- When you just installed a harddisk, the box will start automatically in EM mode
- Push the red button on the back of the unit while turning it on to go into EM mode
- Telnet into your box and follow the these steps
- Delete ALL partitions and data with the command
# mfdisk -e /dev/hda
- Then recreate partitions manually via the command
# mfdisk -c /dev/hda (this is the menue-driven interactive mode)
- Our goal is to create the following partiton-table:
/dev/hda1 Bootable Typ 83(Linux) 2GB /dev/hda2 Typ 82(LinuxSwap) 256MB /dev/hda3 Typ 83(Linux) the rest of the Disk
- Creating the first partition:
Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 1 First cylinder (1-<last sector>, default 1): Using default value 1 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-<last sector>), default <last sector>): +2048M
- Now we need to make this first partition bootable:
Command (m for help): a Partition number (1-4): 1
- Next partition 2 aka the Swap Partition:
Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 2 First cylinder (<sector x>-<last sector>, default <sector x>): Using default value <sector x> Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-<last sector>), default <last sector>): +256M
- The system ID for partition 2 needs to be set to "Linux Swap"
Command (m for help): t Partition number (1-4): 2 Hex code (type L to list codes): 82 Changed system type of partition 2 to 82 (Linux swap)
- The 3rd and final partition will take the remainder of the disk.
Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 3 First cylinder (<sector y>-<last sector>, default <sector y>): Using default value <sector y> Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-<last sector>), default <last sector>): Using default value <last sector>
- Now print the partition table and verify that there are 3 partitions. The first one should be marked as bootable, the second should be the swap partition, the the last should just have the remainder. To check this just type p at the prompt
Command (m for help): p
- The partitions are created and need to be saved
Command (m for help): w
- Now it's time to make the filesystems:
- Format the file system on the system partition:
# mkfs -j /dev/hda1
- Format the file system on the data partition:
# mkfs -j /dev/hda3
- Format the swap partition:
# mkswap /dev/hda2
- Mount the system partition:
# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
Prepare Debian
- Transfer the fetched Debian image via FTP from another computer to the directory /mnt on the Kuro.
- Back in the Telnet session, unpack the Debian image
# cd /mnt # tar xvfz debian_2004_12_26_dist.tgz
- Now is a good time to change some settings
- Network settings
# vi etc/network/interfaces
- Example of static address interface settings
iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.100 network 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.1 iface lo inet loopback
- Example of dynamic address interface settings
iface eth0 inet dhcp iface lo inet loopback
- If a static address is used, you might want to change resolv,conf
# vi etc/resolv.conf
search nameserver <DNS ip address>
- Change your hostname:
# vi etc/hosts
Jeeves
- Have a look at the hosts.allow file to make sure you will not be able to login again
# vi etc/hosts.allow
- There you should add your network :
ALL : 192.168.x.0/255.255.255.0 ALL : 127.0.0.1
- Reboot the Kuro
# write_ok (This is IMPORTANT! Kurobox will not leave EM mode on reboot unless you do this command) # reboot
The first boot of debian:
Because of the user root has no right to telnet in you have to use the user tmp-kun with the password tmp-kun. After you logged in as tmp-kun you may su to the root-user and the password root
For editing and some lowend terminal you should set your terminal-enviroment to vt100
# export TERM=vt100
For security-reasons you should add your own personal user with
# adduser
delete the standard-user tmp-kun with
# deluser tmp-kun
Set a new password for root while you are logged in as root
# passwd
If this is a new Kuro, you should set the correct time and date.
# date <--------to display the current date and time
# date [MMDDhhmmCCYY] <--------to change (minus the brakets of course)
Change the Time Zone as well.
#tzconfig
Now you could update the debian-package list via
#apt-get update
and then update your currently installed packages via
#apt-get upgrade
Debian seems to use a little amount of memory in the Kurobox:
14:04:40 up 1:06, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 23 processes: 22 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 1.0% user, 1.4% system, 0.0% nice, 97.6% idle Mem: 127088K total, 61644K used, 65444K free, 1508K buffers Swap: 265064K total, 0K used, 265064K free, 48800K cached
