vuxu.org: Kaja

Kaja is a virtual host running grml, located at the Bürgernetz Ulm.

Setup

On December 16, kaja got rooted and I had to set it up again. This time I used grml-debootstrap and postfix. Most parts of the old setup are still valid.

Old Setup

• We’ll bootstrap from a netbooted Grml installation by installing it to /dev/hda using grml2hd. All steps should be done in screen(1) in case the network connection breaks.

• First, we need to partition the disk.

  • I decided to make a 6gb /root+/boot, 2gb /swap and 12gb /home.

• grml2hd

  • Install on /dev/hda1.

  • Install the boot manager to mbr.

  • Use ext3.

  • grml2hd now copies all stuff. (Takes roughly 20 minutes.)

  • No additional boot parameters.

  • Hostname: kaja.

  • Default keyboard.

  • en with unicode as language.

  • Set passwords.

  • grml-autoconfig: Disable gpm.

  • grml-setservices: Disable mdadm.

  • remove-packages-server: Keep bind9, dirvish, filetraq.

  • Use lilo.

• mkswap /dev/hda2.

• mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda3.

• Adapt /mnt/hda1/etc/fstab.

• Mount /dev/hda3(!) and cp -a /mnt/hda1/home/* /mnt/hda3.

• Reboot and pray.

• Clean up ~.

• apt-get update.

• Remove all (most) X11 packages (start with x11-common).

• Remove various Opt/Xtr stuff. Don’t forget to purge.

• apt-get upgrade.

• Install exim4-base.

• Enable IPKFSTART=1 in /etc/default/ipkungfu and configure it.

• Add ipkungfu in runlevel.conf.

• Setup BIND9.

• Add bind9 in runlevel.conf.

• Make sure port 53 is open on TCP and UDP(!).

• Install ruby1.8-dev. And the rest of apt-cache showsrc ruby1.8. (Suckers.)

• Add id_dsa.pub to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.

• Install collectd.

• Setup rrdtool. rrdtool graph prints 0x0.

• Setup gitweb.

Issues

• The default xterm-color terminfo is not VT220 compatible. (Backspace and Delete are swapped with Terminal.app.)

  • Hack solution: cp /lib/terminfo/x/xterm-debian /etc/terminfo/x/xterm-color