'gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.icon-view default-zoom-level small'
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check if firmware updates need to happen
- BIOS, IDRAC, DISK/PERC
NETDB needs for the node:
a. NetDB must have the MAC address
b. NetDB must have these dhcp-opt options: --options filename=pxelinux.0,next-server=lnxpapa,tftp-server-name=lnxpapa
c. NetDB must have dhcp enabled
d. Determine the pxeboot-kickstart to use. There are many!
and we should agree on which one to use. I'd recommend we make that part
of the netdb record the way we do with some newer builds - I think it
helps. See for instance comet2
pxekickit: CentOS7/default.netboot.CentOS7.linux_desktop_2 NOTE I would like to change the attribute name on the netdb record from 'pxekickit' to 'netboot' I came up with the pxekickitit name, it made sense sorta at that time, but now that we will expect to have more than just kickstart builds, think Ubuntu, I think it better to just change this naming convention to netboot.
d. NetDB must have the MAC addressDetermine is there anything special about this machine that needs to be considered
If this is rhel[56] node with a taylor.opts take a look and see if there
is a one to one correstpondence between what taylor.opts is doing on the
node and what we can do in chef. For example, if the pre-cheffed node is
using automounter, then all parties ( unix platform, the user) need to know that no NFS native mounts are supported.
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7/13/2018 - comet2 machine arrives in bldg 48 rm 248. Kerberos authentication (temporary). Initial pass at identifying and installing needed software packages (above table) 8/28/2018 - comet2 rebuilt, lose login ability 9/28/2018 - regain ability to login via local account. Re-install needed packages. Also move offending file which causes polkitd to consume too much CPU, "A workaround that I've been using is to remove /etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Account.desktop until the above mentioned bug is fixed." (but this does not clear up the issue - polkitd still consumes 7-6% of the CPU continuously) 11/13/2018 - chef client installed (by Karl). Unexpectedly (to TG), this also activated unix kerberos authentication, thus I begin to use the 'dragon' (SLAC) account in favor of the dragon1 (local) account on comet2. 12/17/2018 - Karl adds 'dragon1' and 'dragon' accounts to /etc/group 'wheel' group. This allows a user to run, for example, the software installation tool GUI launched from the Applications -> System Tools menu in the WM. 12/19/2018 - Karl adds 'dragon' to sudo list. 1/14/2019 - Add system monitor to "top panel" in Gnome3 (right-click in that area no allows one to add new widgets): Applications->System Tools->Application Installer->Add-ons 1/18/2019 - Erik Chavez kindly provided two displayPort-to-DVI adaptors and that seems to work just fine with default display driver, etc. 1/22/2019 - install 'hdparm' on comet2 in anticipation of running with SSD. Use: "lsblk" to determine the device for the HDD/SSD, then "hdparm -I /dev/sda2" for details. (Current HDD is Western Digital 160 GB drive.) 1/24/2019 - Karl installed GTK+ v3, enabling build of galculator (./configure, make, make install). 1/24/2019 - Attempt to update BIOS on comet2 (from A26 -> A30). After multiple attempts, was unable to produce a bootable FreeDOS USB device using parted & unetbootin on comet2. However, using rufus (http://rufus.akeo.ie/) on a Win10 machine was trivial (and successful). BIOS was updated to version A30 on 1/25/2019. Hint: rename the Dell bios updater app so that it has 6 or fewer characters, or it will be abbreviated by DOS. 1/25/2019 - Reduce those huge desktop icons with |
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