Installation instructions for OpenSuSE Leap 42.1

• If the installation program hangs almost right away on a PCI-related message, add the boot option "nomodeset" and retry.
• Do not 'upgrade' from an earlier version. Choose 'new install', but use extreme care not to interfere with existing scratch partitions.
• Select the following additional software categories:
  • Technical writing
  • Console tools
  • File server
  • Miscellaneous server
  • Network administration
  • Base development
  • C/C++ development
  • Integrated Development Environments
  • Java development
  • Perl development
  • Python development
• After selecting packages, choose "Details..." and select additional packages:
  • In 'Console tools': nano, ncftp, pico
  • Via search: libgdk_pixbuf-2_0-0-32bit, libgtk-2_0-0-32bit, libxml2-2-32bit, lynx, mmv, readline-devel, vlc, xosview, xsane
• Network configuration:
  • Firewall enabled, SSH open
  • Static IP address, subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
  • DNS: 129.105.1.1, 129.105.49.1, 8.8.8.8
  • Domain search: 'ms.northwestern.edu' and 'northwestern.edu'
  • Gateway (under 'routing' tab): 129.105.92.1
• After install, in Software Management add:
  • IPython, motif, motif-devel, glibc-devel-static, lsb5, nethogs, thunderbird, libreadline5, apcupsd, apcupsd-cgi, apcupsd-gui
• Add NVIDIA driver (follow the recommend method via "community repository" and the "zypper inr", followed by a reboot):
  • http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers
• Add Google Chrome repository (and install google-chrome)
  • https://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/ (or from command line via 'wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm' followed by 'rpm -ivh google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm'; installing this RPM will also add the corresponding repository, but afterwards you must go in to YaST->Software Management to mark the repository as trusted)
• Add VLC repository (and install vlc)
  • http://download.videolan.org/SuSE/Leap_42.1/
• Addd codecs for VLC via one-click:
  • http://opensuse-community.org/codecs-kde.ymp (approve vendor changes to Packman)
• Install debugging software packages via YaST:
  • In Software Repositories, enable openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Debug and openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Update-Debug.
  • Go to Software Management, select glibc-debuginfo
• In YaST, Network Services:
  • NIS client: Domain "el"; Server 129.105.92.12; Open Port in Firewall
  • NSF client: Mount /home (options: defaults,rw) and /usr/local from ariadne (options: defaults)
  • NTP configuration: Start NTP daemon now and on boot; add server 129.105.92.12
• Connect TO the new machine from ariadne, as root. This will add the host key to ~/.ssh/known_hosts. From there, copy it to /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts (still on ariadne). Also, between the hostname and the IP address, add the FQDN of the new machine, so that that is also associate with the same host key.
• Then, as root on the new machine, do:
  • ln -s /usr/local/etc/profile.local /etc
  • ln -s /usr/local/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts /etc/ssh
  • add the file /usr/local/etc/hosts_list to /etc/hosts
  • scp nestor:/etc/motd /etc (and then edit this file to represent the new machine; "nvidia-smi" is a useful program to find the videocard installed)
  • texconfig (and set default paper size to 'letter')
  • in /etc/ssh/ssh_config set "ForwardX11 yes"
  • in /etc/ssh/sshd_config confirm that "X11Forwarding" is set to "yes"
  • in /etc/ssh/sshd_config change "#AuthorizedKeysFile" to ".ssh/authorized_keys2"
  • scp telemachos:/root/.bashrc ~
  • scp telemachos:/etc/hosts.allow /etc
  • scp telemachos:/etc/hosts.deny /etc
  • copy "scrub_md" line from /etc/crontab on telemachos
• Setting up e-mail notifications for Linux Software RAID.
• YaST -> Software: Online Update.
• YaST -> Hardware -> Printer -> Printer via Network -> Connection Wizard -> TCP/JetDirect; after installation, configure default options via http://localhost:631