Laptop Installation Records

Common stuff

Passwordless login

Using passwordless login which is suppoted in most places uses rsa,rsa1,dsa keys. The public keys are centrally maintained on a master and then they get distributed to the relevant machines using a script.

• generate keys on the newly installed machine:
  ssh-keygen -t rsa; ssh-keygen -t rsa1; ssh-keygen -t dsa;
• get the additional public keys:
  cat ~/.ssh/id*.pub
• edit them into the master authorized_keys file
• ./laptop/updateSsh

Tailoring linux installation

This section follows largely the instructions at Fedora 10, Fedora 11 also check Markus' instructions.

• Setting up sudo after loging in as root:
  echo 'User_Alias ADMINS=paus' >> /etc/sudoers; echo 'paus ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL' >> /etc/sudoers;

• Prepare yum:
  sudo rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-10.rpm;
  sudo rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm;
  sudo rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm;
  sudo rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-10.rpm;

• update the installation:
  sudo yum update

• some wireless need
  sudo yum install broadcom-wl

• for nedit
  sudo yum install nedit

• for watching dvd
  sudo yum install libdvdcss gstreamer-plugins-base gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad vlc

• for latex etc
  sudo yum install tetex tetex-latex tetex-afm tetex-xdvi

• for ghostview
  sudo yum install gv

• add nice printing feature:
  sudo yum install cups-pdf

• xemacs and skype prep:
  sudo yum install qt4 qt4-x11 gcc compat-libstdc++-296 compat-libstdc++-33 xemacs xemacs-el xemacs-common xemacs-info xemacs-devel xemacs-packages-base xemacs-packages-base-el xemacs-packages-extra xemacs-packages-extra-el xemacs-aplus-fsf fonts-x11-apl fonts-truetype-apl

• multimedia support
  sudo yum install mplayer mplayer-gui

• skype
  download from google(skype linux download): rpm -ivh skype-*.rpm

• true fonts:
  wget http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/files/msttcore-fonts-2.0-3.noarch.rpm -O /tmp/msttcore-fonts-2.0-3.noarch.rpm
  sudo rpm -ivh /tmp/msttcorefonts-2.0-3.noarch.rpm
  sudo yum install xfs
  sudo /etc/init.d/xfs restart
  

• auto mounter:
  sudo yum install autofs
  sudo scp lt2mit:/etc/auto.\* /etc/
  sudo /etc/init.d/autofs restart
  

• kerberos:
  sudo scp lt2mit:/etc/krb5.conf /etc/
  

• flashplayer:
  sudo rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
  sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
  sudo yum install flash-plugin
• acroread:
  sudo rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
  sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
  sudo yum install AdobeReader _enu
  

• java
  sudo yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin

• make sure all printers are installed
  • ssh root@lt2mit
  • cd /etc/cups/
  • tar fzc printerOriginal.tgz printers.conf lpoptions cupsd.conf ppd
  • ssh root@pcmit00
  • cd /etc/cups/
  • tar fzc printer.tgz printers.conf lpoptions cupsd.conf ppd

lt0mit: Dell Latitude D800 (Christoph first user - stolen)

missing

lt1mit: Dell Latitude D600 (Roberta first user)

This installation follows very closely what I did for lt0mit and lt2mit. It pretty much worked out of the box. Wireless network tweak was needed.

lt2mit: Dell Latitude D820 (Christoph first user)

missing

lt3mit: Dell Latitude D620 (Markus first user)

This is the first laptop without dual boot. Will try to make xen the virtual machine work for using windows and such. Installation of this sucker was quite straight forward.

Wireless

• sudo yum install broadcom-wl

lt4mit: Dell Latitude D430 (Guillelmo first user)

almost identical to lt3mit. Easy task.

Wireless

• sudo yum install broadcom-wl

lt5mit: Dell XPS M1330 (Jonatan first user)

straight forward, wireless worked out of the box. DVD does not work.