Setup guide

2 If you did not download your distro as an iso image:

1 Insert the DVD or first CD of your CentOS distribution into the drive. You do not need to mount

it.

2 In a terminal, get an ISO image of the disc by typing: dd if=/dev/ <CD/DVD device>

of=/<destination path for the extracted ISO image>. For example: dd if=/dev/cdrom

of=/tmp/ Centos5.iso

3 Eject the disc.

3 From the installation package, run dist/kickstart/build_kickstart_cd to add the kickstart file to

the ISO image of your Linux distribution DVD or first CD. For example:

dist/kickstart//build_kickstart_cd RHEL5_CentOS5_kickstart.cfg /tmp/Centos5.iso

/tmp/Centos5_KS.iso.

4 Do cdrecord -scanbus to get the address of your CD or DVD writer and use it to address the writer.

5 Burn the new ISO image to a blank disc. For example: cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,4,0

/tmp/Centos5_KS.iso.

Configure Linux for Flare

After booting into your new Linux installation:

1 Change the default root password to secure the system. Log into your system as root, using the default

password password, and in a terminal run the passwd command.

2 Disable operating system updates (page 66).

3 Install device drivers (page 67).

4 By default the time zone is set to EST. To change it, log in as root. Right-click the clock, and select

Configure Clock from the context menu.

5 Configure basic network settings (page 21)

6 Optional: NO LABEL .

7 Optional: If you plan to install Autodesk Maya on the Flare workstation, install the mesa-libGLw

package, that is not installed by default with your operating system. In a terminal, as root, type: yum

install mesa-libGLw

Configure basic network settings

to be used.

You'll need the following from your network administrator:

■ A unique static IP address and host name for your system

■ The network gateway IP address.

■ The subnet mask of your network.

■ DNS server IP address(es).

/etc/sysconfig/network

Sample snippet from /etc/sysconfig/network.

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