Windows 2000 Server and RedHat Linux Installation

Overview

Although the main goal of this course is to develop an understanding of data communications, network protocols, and some programming, another goal is to develop some practical skills and familiarity with a current networking system. This assignment, system installation, begins the administration of an Windows 2000 Server (W2K) based on NT (New Technology) 4.0 system and RedHat Linux, each will be used for some assignments over the semester.

Equipment/Supplies/Time

W2K Instructions

The following provides critical details, though not all instructions, needed to install W2K. Much of the installation consists of accepting default values, except in those cases given below. It is recommended that you have at least one hour since it is necessary to complete the Preparation and Installation sections in one setting. The remaining sections can be completed at another time.

Preparations - The first step takes about one hour to prepare the machine and your personal hard disk with the W2K installation. The W2K software is a fully functional 120 day evaluation version available also on the Microsoft Web site.

  1. Hard disk installation - Obtain a hard drive with your name and a CD labeled B438 W2K from the cabinet in LF-111A labeled B438 CABINET.
    1. Locate a machine in LF-111 or LF-111A with a removable drive. The drives have a handle on the front.
    2. Turn OFF power.
    3. Replace the hard disk with yours by:
      1. unlock using the slide lock on the right front of the drive,
      2. pull the drive out by the handle on the front,
      3. push your hard disk in until the handle plate is more or less flush with the rest of the computer face,
      4. lock using the slide lock.
  2. Startup
    1. Place the W2K CD in the CD reader.
    2. Disconnect the LAN cable.
    3. Turn ON the power.
    4. Press F2 to enter the BIOS setup. Check the Boot Sequence as:
      1. IDE CD-ROM Device
      2. Diskette Drive
      3. Hard-Disk Drive C:
    5. Press Esc and Save Changes and Exit from the BIOS setup.
    6. The machine should boot up into the W2K Setup program on the CD.
  3. Setup - Most W2K setup decisions are obvious but you are asked to follow some naming conventions.
    1. Delete all partitions on the C drive.
    2. Create a partition of 2000 Mb. The smaller size makes formatting and installation faster.
    3. Format disk partition as an NTFS file system.
    4. After files are copied the system will reboot. Open the CD reader.
  4. Reboot - After rebooting follow setup instructions.
    1. Name and Organization

              2. Name: Your first name
              Organization: Your last name

    1. Registration                 CD Product Key RBDC9-VTRC8-D7972-J97JY-PRVMG
    2. Licensing Mode            Per Server. 10 concurrent connections.
    3. Computer Name          Use the concatenation of your first and last name (e.g. raywisman).
    4. Windows Components  Add checks to:

                5. Internet Information Services
                Management and Monitoring Tools
                Networking Services
                Other Network File and Print Services

                 

    5. Workgroup     This computer is not on a network with a domain.

      6.                      Enter workgroup of WORK and your last name (e.g. workwisman).
    6. Network Components   Ignore WINS, DNS, and DHCP IP addresses. Respond OK to all questions.
  1. Complete later - Setup is now finished with the first stage and will reboot. Complete later or continue.
    1. Remove CD.
    2. Turn OFF power.
    3. Replace the original hard disk.
    4. Lock disk using the slide lock.
    5. Return the CD and hard disk to the B438 cabinet.
  2. Continue
    1. Boot off the hard drive.
    2. Check This is the only server in my network.
    3. Domain: Enter Domain and your FIRST name (for example domainray).
    4. Domain name on Internet: Your FIRST and LAST name.com (for example ray.wisman.com for me).
    5. Reconnect LAN.
    6. Reboot again.
  3. Finished - Setup is finished.

Adminstration/User Account Login - Only the Administrator user account is automatically created, it can then be used to create other user accounts. Create one user account with the same user name and password as your IUS LAN Netware account to facilitate parallel login to NT and Netware.

  1. Login as Administrator.
  2. Start | Programs | Administrative Tools | Computer Management | Local Users and Groups
    1. Right click Users
    2. Click New User and create a user (e.g. rwisman) by filling in the fields.
    3. Uncheck User must change password... Set password never to expire. Do not require password to be changed at next login.

Testing Network - The customary though gross test for network operation is "Is anything out there?". The following applies that test to TCP/IP and Microsoft networking respectively.

  1. ping - A basic connection and protocol test. The following will verify that the basic protocols and connections are operating.
  2. Web
  3. Microsoft networking

Testing Internet Services - A rudimentary test of Internet services provided by the server can be performed by hitting the Web server. The steps required to access the Web server from another host are:

  1. IIS Web Pages - To test the Web server, create an HTML file and save in the Web pages directory.
    1. Open Notepad and enter a short HTML command list.
    2. Save the file as (without txt extension):
  2. Testing IIS
    1. Start | Programs | Accessories | Command Prompt
    2. IPCONFIG/ALL will display information about the IP protocol, note the IP number assigned by the IUS DHCP server (i.e. assigns dynamic IP numbers).
    3. In a browser on another machine enter the IP number of the server. A default page should be displayed.
    4. Add the test.htm filename to the location IP. It should be displayed.
    5. Print 3. Print and label W2K.

Printer  - A Internet printer can be used, such as the one in LF-105.

Linux Instructions

Installation - To install W2K and Linux on one hard drive first install W2K then Linux. The following instructions assume that you have already installed W2K on a 2 Gb partition and are installing Linux on the remainder of the disk.

  1. Reboot with Linux CD 1. Press Enter to continue at the Linux boot prompt.
  2. Follow directions for the RedHat Install with the following changes to the default installation:
    1. 2 Button Mouse (PS/2)
    2. Install Type: Server
    3. Disk Partitioning: Manually partition with Disk Druid.
      1. Double Click on the Free part of the drive.
      2. Mount point: /
      3. Modify the End Cylinder until the Size is about 3000(MB).
      4. Click: OK
      5. Double Click on the Free part of the drive.
      6. Select Filesystem Type of swap.
      7. Click: OK then Next
      8. Select GRUB as the loader.
    4. Customize Firewall configuration and check:
    5. Root Password
    6. Add account name for a regular user.
    7. Selecting Group Packages: Check all packages.
    8. RedHat will begin Installing Packages for a few minutes.
    9. Insert CD 2 to continue the installation.
    10. Skip boot disk creation or insert a 3 1/2 floppy.
  3. Once Linux is up and running, setup the boot manager to allow you to boot into W2K or Linux.
    1. Boot Linux.
      1. If the Add New Hardware dialog screen appears press Enter to continue and Configure new hardware.
      2. The Bringing up interface eth0: will take a while if the IUS DHCP server is not found, possible causes are the network cable is not attached.
      3. Log in as user root.
      4. If the graphical interface does not strat automatically enter:
        • startx
    2. Edit the grub.conf file in the /etc directory which lists the bootable systems on this machine.
      1. Click the  icon.
      2. gedit  /etc/grub.conf
    3. Modify the grub.conf file to add an other entry for the W2K partition for the NTFS partition. Enter info grub for the details on configuring multiple operating system boots. When done it should look similar to the following:
      4. # grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda2
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img
title W2K
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
    4. Save.
    5. Reboot.
      1. Click the  icon | Logout | Reboot | Yes
      2. Linux should reboot giving the choices of W2K or Linux. Make sure both work. If not, game over. Check with the instructor.

Testing Network - As with W2K, the customary though gross test for network operation is "Is anything out there?". The following applies that test to TCP/IP.

  1. ping - A basic connection and protocol test. The following will verify that the basic protocols and connections are operating.
  2. Web - Test higher level TCP/IP protocols.

Testing Internet Services - A rudimentary test of Internet services provided by Linux can be performed by hitting the Web server. This requires configuring the Apache server with a server name. The steps required are:

Printer

Turn In

  1. Cover sheet with your name, date, Homework 3. Staple all pages together.
  2. Question 4. Comment upon the installation and setup of the two operating systems, particularly as related to networking.
  3. W2K - Turn in a printout of the screens and questions from Testing Network and Testing Internet Services.
  1. Open the window to capture.
  2. Press Alt + Print Screen simultaneously.
  3. Paste into WordPad or other editor.
  4. Print. Your user name should be printed on the separator page.
  1. Linux - Turn in a printout of the screens and questions from Testing Network and Testing Internet Services.
  1. Click the  icon.
  2. import /tmp/screenshot.jpeg
  3. Click in the window to snapshot. Beeps means the window image is captured to screenshot.jpeg.
  4. Click on the icon. Enter in Location: box: /tmp
  5. Drag and drop the image file to the Print applet icon  on the toolbar panel.

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