Last modified: Oct. 16, 2011

CIS 191AB Midterm: Installation and Configuration

Installation Requirements   (40 points)

1. Preparing the storage devices:   (18 points)
   • Preserve the first primary partition of 55 MB as a FAT16 filesystem.
   • a second primary partition ~75 MB with an ext2 file system mounted to /boot
   • The remaining partitions may be either primary or logical and the order does not matter:
     • ~300 MB ext3 partition mounted to /
     • ~512 MB swap partition
     • ~768 MB ext3 file system mounted to /var
     • ~2500 MB ext3 file system mounted to /usr
     • The remaining space, (~4GB) must be left free.
2. Boot Loader requirements:   (4 points)
   • Change the Title for the bootable DOS partition to: Diagnostics
   • Change the Title for the CentOS system to be Apache Web Server
   • Load the GRUB boot loader in the boot sector of the second partition: /dev/sda2
3. Package groups to install:   (8 points)
   • Desktop Environment: Gnome Desktop
   • Applications: Editors and Graphical Internet - Firefox and gnome-themes only
   • Development: Development Tools only
   • Servers: FTP Server and Web Server only
   • Base System -> Administration Tools, Base and X Window System only
   No other package groups should be installed, unless they're needed to resolve dependencies.
4. Other Installation Parameters:   (5 points)
   • Choose DHCP for your network configuration.
   • Manually specify stationXX.localdomain name as your hostname, where XX is your station number.
   • Specify "funny" Cabrillo as the root password.
5. Post Installation Configuration:   (5 points)
   • Make sure the firewall settings allow ftp, ssh, http, and https.
   • Configure SELinux as "permissive"
   • Disable kdump
   • Pacific Standard Time as the Time Zone.
   • User account must be cis191 with "funny" Cabrillo as the password.
6. Registration and Updates: Do not attempt to register the product or to apply any updates.

Custom Configuration Requirements   (35 points)

1. Remove the following services from all runlevels:   (10 points)
   • avahi-daemon
   • lvm2-monitor
   • hidd
   • mdmonitor
   • microcode_ctl
   • rawdevices
   • mcstrans
   • bluetooth
   • irqbalance
   • acpid
   • smartd
   • pcscd
2. Remove the following services from runlevel 4 only, if they are present:   (10 points)
   • kudzu
   • autofs
   • netfs
   • portmap
   • nfslock
   • rpcgssd
   • rpcsvcgssd
   • rpcidmapd
   • cups
   • sendmail
   • atd
3. Add the httpd and vsftpd services to runlevel 4 only   (4 points)
4. Configure the /boot filesystem to not mount at startup time, but
   configure the DOS filesystem (/dev/sda1) to mount to a directory called /dos (2 points)
5. Install and configure the VMware-Tools tarball package and set it to run only under runlevels 4 and 5.   (4 points)
6. Edit the grub.conf file to allow 3 booting options in the following order:   (4 points)
   1. Apache Web Server # This must be the default and must boot to runlevel 4
   2. Maintenance Mode # This must boot into single user mode
   3. Diagnostics # This must boot into the FreeDOS OS.
   Also, comment out the hiddenmenu directive in grub.conf, if it's there.   (1 point)

Turn in     (5 points)

1. /root/anaconda-ks.cfg
2. /boot/grub/grub.conf
3. /etc/fstab
4. the output of df -h
5. the output of fdisk -l
6. the output of chkconfig --list
7. the top 25 lines of /etc/init.d/vmware-tools