• SSh/Standard System only
• Add non-free and contrib to /etc/apt/sources.list and update
• Install the following packages

 apt-get install apt-file libfftw3-dev tkdiff g++ gcc gfortran build-essential subversion pgplot5 
   tcptraceroute ethtool wireshark autoconf libtool gnu-standards emacs qiv tcpdump x11-apps zlib1g-dev  pkg-config ntpdate ntp libgtk2-perl screen lshw firmware-qlogic libpng12-dev
   apt-file update

ETCH

apt-get install pgperl libpng3-dev

SQUEEZE & WHEEZEY

apt-get install libpng12-dev libpgplot-perl

Can duplicate packages from an existing machine:

On original

apt-clone clone lbadr

On new machine

apt-clone restore lbadr.apt-clone.tar.gz

• Copy bigphysarea kernel deb package (see below)

dpkg -i linux-image-XXX-bigphys_1.2_i386.deb  dpkg -i linux-headers-XXX-bigphys_1.2_i386.deb

SQUEEZE & WHEEZEY

• Edit /etc/default/grub change GRUB_DEFAULT as appropriate and GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“bigphysarea=64000”

update-grub

apt-get install kernel-package linux-source
echo "CONCURRENCY_LEVEL= 2" >> /etc/kernel-pkg.conf

Wheezy

apt-get install libqt4-dev 

Add ntp servers to /etc/ntp.conf

Etch

Also add ntp server to /etc/default/ntp

• As root on kernel build machine (see above)
• Download patch from http://e-mode.phas.ubc.ca/mce/pc_install/bigphys/

 cd /usr/src/
 tar xvjf /usr/src/linux-source-X.X.tar.bz2
  cd linux-source-X.X
  make xconfig     (see list below)
  patch -p1 < bigphysarea-3.2.0.patch
  make oldconfig
     Support for big physical area reservation (BIGPHYS_AREA) [N/y/?] (NEW) y
  make-kpkg clean
  fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --revision=1.0 --append-to-version=-bigphys kernel_image kernel_headers

Removed the following modules/categories

PCCard
DCCP
Amateur Radio
CAN bus
IrDA
Bluetooth
Wireless LAN
ISDN

 svn co https://svn.atnf.csiro.au/evlbi/trunk evlbi
 cd evlbi
 make

• as root:

    cd ~vlbi/evlbi/vsib
    cp init.vsib /etc/init.d/vsib
    update-rc.d vsib defaults
    cp vsib.conf /etc/modprobe.d/
    make install

ETCH

• Add the following to /etc/udev/permissions.rules

SQUEEZE & WHEEZY

• Add the following to /lib/udev/rules.d/91-permissions.rules

        # vsib board
        KERNEL=="vsib", MODE="0664", GROUP="vlbi"

===== More =====

* via CPAN Config::Trivial.pm, Astro::Time

Need support for Intel I219LM LAN controller

• Download e1000e-3.3.5.3.tar.gz from https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/15817 (latest 3.4.2.1)

tar zxvf e1000e-3.3.5.3.tar.gz
cd e1000e-3.3.5.3/src
make install
modprobe e1000e

https://launchpadlibrarian.net/85312585/fix_readq.patch

---
 drivers/acpi/atomicio.c |   11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/acpi/atomicio.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/atomicio.c
@@ -306,11 +306,18 @@ static int acpi_atomic_read_mem(u64 padd
 	case 32:
 		*val = readl(addr);
 		break;
-#ifdef readq
 	case 64:
+#ifdef readq
 		*val = readq(addr);
-		break;
+#else
+		{
+			u64 h;
+			*val = readl(addr);
+			h = readl(addr+4);
+			*val = *val + (h << 32);
+		}
 #endif
+		break;
 	default:
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}

• Install libmotif-dev libxt-dev
• cd evlbi/das/das_gui; make
• mkdir -p ~/das/das1; mkdir ~/das/das2
• Copy from backup ~/das/profiles
• Add “vlbi” to “dialout” in /etc/group

32 bit kernel can only handle 16 TB partitions….

The following command to create 2 partitions:

 parted -a optimal -s -- /dev/sdb unit gb mkpart primary 50 2025 mkpart primary 2025 -0 set 3 raid on set 4 raid on
 mdadm --create /dev/md3 --level=5 --raid-devices=8 /dev/sd[abcdefgh]3
 mdadm --create /dev/md4 --level=5 --raid-devices=8 /dev/sd[abcdefgh]4