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= Installing SuSE 10.1 from DVD =

 * On the welcome screen
  * select ''Installation''
  * enter the boot parameter ''vga=ask''
  * press <RETURN> to start installation
  * at the prompt press <RETURN> to get list of video modes
  * in the following list of video modes select option ''6''.

 * Select US english as language,<<BR>>
 * select new installation,<<BR>>
 * select Europe, Germany, hardware clock set to UTC,<<BR>>
 * select KDE as desktop,<<BR>>
 * modify suggested partition to
  * primary partition: swap, 18 GB for host pacs5, 32GB for host pacs6
  * primary partition: 100 MB, reiser FS, /boot
  * primary partition: 10 GB, reiser FS, /tmp
  * extended partition
   * 15 GB, reiser FS, /
   * 15 GB, Reiser FS, /os, placeholder to install other operation system
   * Reiser FS, /home
 * continue installation.

After the automatic reboot<<BR>>
 * enter ''pacs5'' (or ''pacs6'') as hostname, ''mpe-garching.mpg.de'' as domain, disable DHCP update,<<BR>>
 * enter a wellknown password for root,<<BR>>
 * for the network configuration
  *enable SSH in the firewall options,
  *configure the first network interface
   * static address setup
   * IP address 130.183.130.160 (130.183.130.167 for pacs6), subnet mask 255.255.255.0
   * hostname pacs5
   * domain mpe-garching.mpg.de
   * name server 130.183.70.10 and 130.183.72.185
   * default gateway 130.183.130.1
 * test the network interface,<<BR>>
 * for the online update configuration
  * select configure now
  * '''BUT''' skip actual update
 * select local user authentication
 * skip adding local user, ignore warning
 * accept hardware configuration

= Updating the 3ware RAID driver =

The driver version '''2.26.02.007''' seen with
{{{
cat /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/stats
}}}
matches the version distributed with 3ware distribution ''codeset v 9.3.0.4'',
see file version.txt on CD.

No driver update necessary!

= Hardware configuration =

== Video setting ==
After installation no X output visible due incompatible monitor setting.

Go to console mode with '''Alt''' '''F1'''<<BR>>
Switch to run level 3 and start sax2
{{{
telinit 3
sax2 -u
}}}
Set screen resultion to 1280x1024, 16 bit color.<<BR>>
Set Keyboard to ''United Kingdom'', 105 keys<<BR>>
Switch back to run level 5.
{{{
telinit 5
}}}

== CUPS printing ==

Start ''yast2'', select ''Hardware'' then ''Printer''<<BR>>
''Add''<<BR>>
''Network Printers''<<BR>>
''Print via CUPS Network Server''<<BR>>
''CUPS Client Only''<<BR>>
server name ''irprint1''<<BR>>
''OK''

= Setting up additional installation sources =

== Adding OpenSuse as installation source ==

{{{
rug service-add --type=ZYPP http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source openSuse-10.1
rug subscribe openSuse-10.1
}}}

= First update using yast2 =

Start ''yast2'', ''Software'', ''Online Update'' to perform first update of the
system. Using the command line tool '''rug''' does not work yet.

= Installing additional packages =

{{{
rug install -y kernel-source kernel-syms tkdiff xemacs xv
rug install -y java-1_5_0-sun java-1_5_0-sun-alsa java-1_5_0-sun-demo java-1_5_0-sun-devel java-1_5_0-sun-jdbc java-1_5_0-sun-plugin java-1_5_0-sun-src
rug install -y gcc gcc-c++ gcc-debuginfo gcc-info gcc-java
rug install -y bison flex colorgcc
rug install -y ncurses-devel  
}}}
Accept additional required packages! Then make the first '''update'''.

= Update packages =

{{{
rug update
}}}