Ron Stodden wrote: > > I cannot do a fresh install because of the immense amount of work one > must do to get from where the Mandrake installer leaves off to reach a > useable system:
List amended: > arrange automount of the home partition on /home, > from another linux remove all the contents of /home, > replace fstab, > replace lilo.conf, run lilo, > get rid of the /mnt directory in favour of a /local directory, > set up many more mount points, > set up the same set of mount points for each machine on the network > under /<machine name>, > replace /etc/resolv.conf, > replace /etc/hosts, change end of rc.local, > replace wine.conf, set default rouite of all non-gateway machines to the gateway (eth0), > install the iptables RPM (should have been installed by Mandrake), > set up iptables scripts (I use MonMotha's), > install the nfs-clients RPM, > replace /etc/exports, > run exportfs -r > add a script for setting the clock (ntp-set) with panel invocation, > set it executable by root, > run kdf and worldwatch all the time, > log on as root to set special schema for all root operations (These > appear when su to root - this is a bad omission by Mandrake). > etc. -- Ron. [au]
