BBP 14.10 Image
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Fedora 14 Virtual Box Installation on Mac OS X 10.9
- Set up for the SCEC CME Configuration:
Virtual Box Software
- Install VB v4.3.18
Download Fedora 14
- While current Fedora is v20, some VB features like guest additions work best on older versions of fedora
- Machine name: scecbbp
- Machine type: Linux - Fedora (64Bit)
- Use the Default System except:
- Set Base Memory to 2048MB
- Set FileSystem type VDI
- set dynamically allocated
- Size: 71.31GB dynamic (does not need to be exactly this value)
- After machine is created, select "Settings", "Display"
- Increase video memory to 32MB
- Define a shared folder location on host system
- Select a folder on host system called "share"
- Download "Fedora-14-x86_64-DVD.iso" onto Mac hard drive
- Load it into VB
- Select the "Fedora 14 iso image downloaded above", and then click "OK"
- Boot (Start) the new machine and the Fedora 14 installation will begin
- Select "install a new system or upgrade..."
- Skip the media test
- When warning dialog asking about re-initializing device pops-up, select "Re-Initialize All"
- Machine name: "scecbbp"
- Select "Los Angeles" time zone
- Root password set to: "scecbbp2014"
- Installation type: "Use all space"
- Select the review and Customize box at the bottom of page
- Delete the /home partition and make the / partition larger to use the space used by /home. Set it to Max size shown on screen
- When it prompts for software to install
- Select Customize Now
- Edit source (from http to DVD)
- Select "Software Development" and
- add "Fedora 14 - x86_64" and "Fedora 14 - x86_64 Updates"
- to add these, modify repository by changing url from https to http
- Actual installation begins...
- After machine reboots...
- User setup
- Username: scecbbp
- Fullname: Broadband Platform
- Password: sceccme
- advanced settings and added this users to the wheel group
- Installation ends!
- Open terminal window
- Set up sudo access for user cme
- su - (to become root)
- visudo
- Find the line that says
- ROOT ALL=(ALL) ALL
- under that line add the line
- Add line at the end: "scecbbp ALL=(ALL) ALL"
- Error on sudo yum install
- edit /etc/yum.repo.d/ files. Comment in the base url, and remove https and add http for mirrors.
- This changes seems related to where image is originally loaded from, and this was needed
- to get it to work from mac disk image.
- edit /etc/yum.repos.d files to comment in baseurl and change https to http for mirror sites
- Install missing Python dependencies for BBP and UCVM
- sudo yum install numpy scipy python-matplotlib python-basemap
- Disable the sendmail daemon
- sudo chkconfig sendmail off
- Install Pyproj
- Download Pyproj from https://pyproj.googlecode.com/files/pyproj-1.8.9.tar.gz
- untar, then run "sudo python ./setup.py install"
- Install the Virtual Box guest additions (from http://www.sysprobs.com/install-fedora-15-virtualbox-steps-install-virtualbox-guest-additions-fedora-15)
- sudo yum install dkms
- Select "Devices" -> "Insert Guest Additions CD image..."
- sudo su -
- cd /media/VBOXADDITIONS_<VERSION_NUMBER>
- sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
- Reboot!
- Setting up a shared folder on the virtual machine
