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2U Dual AMD Processor Rack Server aka: Mark IIIR Net Integrator
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
- run
- 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
- From GParted configure
- 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
- Mount root
- 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)