Debian Unstable: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 01:19, 22 February 2011

Acquire the daily businesscard ISO.
- These won't work from time to time, especially when base packages are being upgraded (the installer will expect a version which is no longer available)
Prepare external firmware, if necessary
Boot the ISO, selecting an Expert install

Install sudo. Edit /etc/sudoers (using visudo) to allow the sudo group to run all commands without a password:

%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

Add user account to sudo group
dpkg-reconfigure debconf, set minimum priority to Low
dpkg-reconfigure -a, reconfiguring all debconf questions
Edit /etc/default/rcS, enabling FSCKFIX, VERBOSE, RAMRUN, RAMLOCK
Edit /etc/default/grub, removing "quiet" from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
- Rerun update-grub
Edit /etc/default/ntp, changing NTPD_OPTS to '-g -x'
- This allows the clock to be arbitrarily set once (presumably on startup), without slew delay
Clone my home directory from https://github.com/dankamongmen/dankhome.git
Set a color for the local machine in .pcolor
- This is based on the binary bin/color, and hooks to PS1 in .bashrc
Install mingetty. Open /etc/inittab and convert 'getty 38400' to 'mingetty'.
Remove info and install pinfo
Install compiz and gdm3.
Install libpam-ssh, and configure it
- Recently, this can be done entirely inside of debconf -- no editing of PAM configs by hand
FIXME plenty more..

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 * Install <tt>mingetty</tt>. Open <tt>/etc/inittab</tt> and convert 'getty 38400' to 'mingetty'.
 * Remove <tt>info</tt> and install <tt>pinfo</tt>
+* Install compiz and gdm3.
+* Install <tt>libpam-ssh</tt>, and configure it
+** Recently, this can be done entirely inside of debconf -- no editing of PAM configs by hand
 * ''FIXME'' plenty more..