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#selected USB device driver for getting install from DVD | #selected USB device driver for getting install from DVD | ||
Revision as of 22:03, 14 June 2012
Configuring the INTEL based GE XVB601 ROC
Configuration out of the box
You can set up a VGA terminal and a USB keyboard into one of the USB slots which seems to recieve input from teh keyboard and output information to the screen
Utility screen
By hitting the "del" key when booting the ROC you can enter into a setup Utility program.
I did
Advanced->Onboard Device, and changed the memory size from 64 MB to 512MB
I also enable Onboard Gigabit LAN 1.
Install using USB DVD drive
- plug in the two USB connectors for the drive
- The drive shows up in the setup utility, select it as the Boot #1 device
- used "linux text" to avoid GUI install
- selected local CD ROM install
- selected USB mass storage driver
- used grub bootloader
- selected USB device driver for getting install from DVD
- I did a CD check
- I select Remove linux partitions on selected drives and create default layout. This will result in a small /boot and a large / partition as well as a swap partition.
- do not use V6 protocol for DNS, mask is 255.255.255.0
- use DHCP but put in IP address and name
- select server installation and went through list customizing packages, uncluded X11 and Java, and admin tools
finished installing on 134.50.3.17
References
https://clonwiki.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GE_XVB601
https://coda.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/Intel-based_VME_Controllers
Drivers for the VME are here:
/site/coda/2.6.1/extensions/linuxvme/RPMs