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2U Dual AMD Processor Rack Server aka: Mark IIIR Net Integrator

Initial boot BIOS screen.

RAM module.

SCSI Hard Drive label.

Blah blah blah...

Motherboard: TYAN Thunder K7X (S2468) http://www.tyan.com/archive/products/html/thunderk7x.html

Brochure: http://www.jadecomputers.us/Files/markiiir.pdf

Maintenance

Setup

• Burn current ISO of Arch Linux to CD https://www.archlinux.org/download/
• Boot off CD using external USB CD-ROM drive (may require boot order mod in BIOS)
• Connect ethernet cable to Ethernet Port 1 (enp2s8)
  • run # dhcpcd to start DHCP assignment
  • test connection with a ping # ping -c 3 www.noisebridge.net
  • Now we know the puter fires up and connects to the internets
• Power off and run GParted to setup partitions systemctl poweroff
  • From GParted configure /dev/sdg as gpt partition with fat32 and boot flag
    • This is a 256MB Flash Drive
  • Create and configure SCSI Hard Drives (/dev/sda thru /dev/sdf)
    • Configured /dev/sda & /dev/sdb with gpt table, 10GB fat32 boot and 130GB ext4
• Reboot with Arch Linux
  • Mount root
    • # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
  • Mount home
    • # mkdir /mnt/home
    • # mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/home
  • Mount UEFI
    • # mkdir -p /mnt/boot
    • # mount /dev/sdg1 /mnt/boot
• Install linux base
  • # pacstrap -i /mnt base
    • Select default (all), about 160MB download, 450MB install
• Generate fstab
  • # genfstab -U -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
  • # nano /mnt/etc/fstab
• Chroot
  • # arch-chroot /mnt
• FAIL
• FAIL!
• FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!

Log

Installed Arch Linux July 1, 2013 build Thex (talk) 16:21, 18 July 2013 (PDT)