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- | ====== NAV virtual appliance recipe ====== | ||
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- | This is the original recipe used by Morten Werner Forsbring to create the first [[navappliance|NAV virtual appliance]]. | ||
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- | ===== How the virtual appliance was created ===== | ||
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- | A virtual machine was created on a VMware ESX server with 512MB RAM and 4GB of disk. Choises made during installation of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (aka. etch): | ||
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- | * American English as language | ||
- | * using LVM on the disk to ease the expand-process | ||
- | * all files in one large partition | ||
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- | After a normal installation, the following changes are made: | ||
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- | * the user added at install-time was removed | ||
- | * so was the root-alias in ///etc/aliases// pointing to that user | ||
- | * backport.org- and pkg-nav.alioth.debian.org-mirrors added to /etc/apt/sources.list | ||
- | * installed open-vm-tools (from backports.org) and ran the commands **module-assistant prepare open-vm** and **module-assistant auto-install open-vm** to build the opem-vm-modules | ||
- | * installed openssh-server | ||
- | * added 'ALL: 127.0.0.1' to /etc/hosts.allow and 'ALL: ALL' to /etc/hosts.deny | ||
- | * installed nav (aptitude install --without-recommends nav) and answered yes to all question | ||
- | * followed /usr/share/doc/nav/README.Debian | ||
- | * poweroff the machine and take a snapshot | ||
- | * Remove the network configuration in /etc/network/interfaces. | ||
- | * Change the temporary root-password to an empty one in /etc/shadow (and remove /etc/shadow-). | ||
- | * Adjust hostname in the following files: /etc/hosts, /etc/mailname and /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf | ||
- | * Power off the virtual machine and export as appliance. | ||
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- | ===== Todo ===== | ||
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- | * document how to make the appliance send emails | ||