ResourcesMark
From MDWiki
Jump to navigationJump to search
System Configuration (workstations, grape)
Alarm handling/Shutting down the rack
System Configuration (windows and Linux laptop)
System Configuration (CCMS Blackhole)
Grape queueing system
Add new user (LDAP)
Add new user (grape)
Create account in /etc/passwd
useradd -u NEWUID -g md NAME
Update NIS (for cluster authentication)
cd /var/yp/ make
How to build a Live CD
Get Gentoo Linux distribution, e.g. http://www.sabayonlinux.org/ (e.g. miniCD) Adding custom packages to Sysrescd
In summary: 1. expand the sysrcd.dat in /mnt/custom 2. mount -o bind /proc /mnt/custom/proc 3. extract a recent gentoo portage in /mnt/custom/files/usr/portage 4. chroot /mnt/custom 5. install new packages using the gentoo commands (emerge yourpkg) 6. umount everything properly 7. clean /usr/portage 8. recreate sysrcd.dat with mksquashfs 9. recreate the iso image