Rebuild SOS

There are some things that must be done before starting a rebuild:

backup /etc/rc.local
backup /home/sos/ ( this protects the playlists your site has created )
backup /shared/sos/bin and /shared/sos/etc ( in case some accident happens , you have version CR-11)
It is a good idea to copy all /shared/sos to another machine, except /shared/sos/media which is already archived on the other 4 machines.

Prepare your kick start DVD for installation.

Get newest version of Redhat Linux 5 ISO files into a hard drive. Someone can download it from RedHat.
Use the command to mount each ISO file sequencially.

mount -o loop *disk1.iso to /mnt/redhat-cd1

and so on, to mount the others.
Then copy the first disk files into target directory which is going to burn a DVD

cp -r /mnt/redhat-cd1/* /rebuild-dvd/*
Copy all RPM files from the other ISO file to the RPM directory inside the target directory.

cp -r /mnt/redhat-cd[2-5]/RedHat/RPMS/* /rebuild-dvd/RedHad/RPMS/
Copy those files I prepared for you into the target directory. Those files include

ks.cfg cvsbuild-2.1.5.tgz tps-2.1.5.tgz and Nvidia driver

For Dell 390n needs snd-hda-intel-1.0.6p-9.tar.gz and WS390-020008.BIN too, please refer reinstall_sound_driver

P.S. The ks.cfg is for NC installation. For the other 4 machines please use ks.cfg-P but rename it to be ks.cfg and create another DVD. you can just use the NC one, but you have to modify a lots of files. Please compare the difference of these 2 files.
Since you have all stuffs in the target directory, use next command to create ISO file and burn DVD

sudo mkisofs -input-charset iso8859-1 -o ISOoutput-filename.iso -R -J -V "LinuxInstall" -hide-rr-moved -v -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -iso-level 3 -A "LinuxInstall" inputDir
Once you have a the ISOoutputFile.iso, you can use "K3b" to burn a DVD-rom and put that dvd into dvd drive, and reboot machine from DVD DRIVE ( This need to setup BIOS ).
After install all stuffs, please make sure IP address and HOSTNAME are correct, modification might be needed.Here is the checklist to double check with NC and the others.
Install NVidia driver manually for each machine, please refer install Nvidia Driver.
Kick Start install ATI remote driver too, so, someone do not have to install this except after update kernel again.
ATI driver installation, change directory to ati_remote, and please modify one line inside the file build-2.6.sh.
kernel="2.6.9-42.0.3.EL-smp-x86_64"
get and change the value by the command "ls /usr/src/kernels/" to get the newest kernel source. then run build-2.6.sh
Then run next 2 command manually.
sudo cp ati_remote3.ko /lib/modules/kernel-version/kernel/drivers/usb/input/
sudo insmod ati_remote3.ko
Set up sshkey. You can copy .ssh directory from the other machines or make a copy into DVD for use, remove the known_hosts before use it.
reboot
When system is ready, someone need to copy data into /shared/sos/media and run sos_rsync to the others, as well put data into /shared/sos/render and set up real time data ingesting.

If you have xorg.conf setting problem, please call us. or, copy xorg.conf.mirror or xorg.conf.dual from installation DVD

last modified on 2007/04/05