mellowdrone - software

[arrjay]

Mellowdrone is the new storage server, it is made out of the remains of a B&W G3, this documents the software side of things.

Using Fedora 10 PPC net-install media.

• Skipped the media check
• ...welcome, language, keyboard...
• New Install
• hostname: mellowdrone.produxi.net
• TZ: America/New_York, RTC is UTC
• password...
• partitioning - custom layout
  
  
  • sda (ATA TOSHIBA THNCF512)
    
    
    • sda1 - Apple Bootstrap (1MB)
    • sda2 - ext2 (/boot, 488MB)
  • sdb (ATA Hitachi HDT72101)
    
    
    • sdb1 - software RAID (953869MB)
  • sdc (ATA Hitachi HDT72101)
    
    
    • sdc1 - software RAID (953869MB)
  • sdd (ATA ST310000340AS)
    
    
    • sdd1 - software RAID (953869MB)
  • md0 (RAID1 [of sdb + sdd], LVM PV, Volume Group 'mellowdrone')
    
    
    • / ('root', 10GB, ext3)
    • /var ('var', 4GB, ext3)
    • swap ('swap', 1GB, swap)
  • Accept the 'no partition map' errors with 'fix'
  • watch Anaconda explode with delight...
  • Restart, walk through the options again, notice all the partition numbers have incremented by one...
  • Recreate the RAID partitions and VG
  • Anaconda succeeds! Well, at formatting the drives, anyway
  • configure networking on eth1 (RTL....) using DHCP
  • uncheck office/productivity software set, choose to customize further now
  • uncheck everything but Base and Hardware Support
  • wait on dependency resolution... this is a G3/300
  • install proper unpacks itself and begins. 466 packages to install...
  • reboot! system will now fail to work. yaaaay.
  • drop into OF (Win-Alt-O-F) try boot hd:2,yaboot
  • SUCCESS!
  • edit /etc/yaboot.conf
    
    
    • change sda2 references to sdd2
    • add nonvram keyword
  • run ybin
  • reboot system, drop back to OF, type the following
    
    setenv boot-device hd:2,yaboot
    
    reset-all
  
  system should now boot automatically into linux on power-on. running yum update and rebooting again is highly recommended.