OS Installation

Base OS installation

Our platform is built on top of ​Ubuntu 12.04.04. The installation iso used was ​ubuntu-12.04.4-server-amd64.iso. The following settings were applied during the installation process:

1. Choose relevant language and keyboard settings
2. We expect eth2 is the up-link interface (used to internet access and remote control) and should be interface chosen for installation. It is also expected that eth2 will be connect to a network that will assign it a dhcp address.
3. Specify a local USERNAME/PASSWORD combo. Please keep track of this information, it will be required for all setup procedures later on.
4. Specify Manual partitioning and partition the disk as follows:

Number	Type	Size	Flags	File System	Mount Point
1	Primary	20GB	Bootable	Ext4	/
2	Primary	20GB		Ext4	/home
3	Primary	116GB		Ext4	/export
4	Primary	4GB		Swap

Note:

• If no explicit instruction is given for a setting, it's safe to assume the default should work.
• This version of Ubuntu does not work well with USB flash disk installations, The best results are with a burned CD/DVD and a USB CD/DVD drive as a the boot medium.

Configure Host Name

/etc/hosts /etc/hostname

Configure Networking

• Four networks
• Data
• CM
• Control
• Outside

Setup networking as follows on the console host

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The CM network interface
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
      address 10.1.0.254
      netmask 255.255.255.0
      broadcast 10.1.0.255

# The Control network interface
auto eth3
iface eth3 inet static
      address 10.10.0.254
      netmask 255.255.255.0
      broadcast 10.10.0.255

# The  Data network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
      address 10.20.0.254
      netmask 255.255.255.0
      broadcast 10.20.0.255

# The primary network interface
auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp