Subject: RedHat 6.1 install -- Say hi to Bessie
From: jhart (jhart@bessie.ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 01 2000 - 12:17:40 EDT
Spent a few hours getting a Gateway PC up an running RedHat 6.2
1.) Turn it on and only the PS and exhaust fans come on
2.) Unplug DVD drive, and power up. Everything seems fine now
3.) Plug in DVD drive, and power up. Only the fans come on.
4.) Reverse the cable on HD (on a hunch) and everything boots up nicely.
5.) Wont boot of DVD drive, no options in BIOS to allow this
6.) Unknowingly toil with RedHat 4.0 (circa 1997) boot disks.
7.) Gee, what a surprise. 4.0 has no drivers for the DVD drive
8.) Remove DVD drive and plug in older atapi cd drive
9.) RedHat finds the cd drive, but cant mount the media
10.) Mark makes a boot disk using the rawrite utility after we realize I
was using an outdated boot disk
11.) FINALLY, it boots off of the CD and installation goes relatively
smoothly
12.) Make rescue disk, set root passwd, add user jhart
13.) Give Mark root passwd
14.) set to use DHCP for the moment
15.) set hostname to bessie.ccs.neu.edu
16.) find an available port for 'ol bessie and plug it in
17.) Agina starts making a god-awful beeping sound
18.) reboot bessie, eth0 comes up fine, logs onto the network
ping, sendmail, and web type stuff works
19.) d/l and install SSH. add the SSH daemon to Bessie's startup script
20.) disable telnet access. Test everything. It seems to work.
21.) Put bessie back together
22.) send this mail
23.) <to be continued>
-jhart
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