Installation Howto
Creating and formatting partitions
This will destroy all data on the drive and/or partitions you select!
fdisk /dev/[device]
Create at least two partitions:
linux- at least 1GB (2GB recommended)linux swap- RAM * 2, but not greater than 2GB
Once done, save (w) the partition changes and exit.
Format the swap partition with mkswap /dev/[swap_partition]
Format the root partition with mkfs -t ext3 /dev/[root_partition]
Mount the new partition and install packages
mount /dev/[root_partition] /mnt
prime-install /mnt
Mount kernel filesystems and chroot into new system
mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
mount -t proc none /mnt/proc
chroot /mnt /bin/bash --login
Install GrUB
grub-mkdevicemap
grub-install --grub-setup=/boot/grub/grub.cfg /dev/[device]
grub-setup --directory=/boot/grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map /dev/[device]
Kernel Configuration
cat /boot/2.6.25.4/grub >> /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg to match your configuration.
Edit /etc/fstab
Add your root and swap partitions to /etc/fstab:
/dev/[root_partition] / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/[swap_partition] swap swap defaults 0 0
Finish cleanly and reboot
exit
umount /mnt/{proc,dev} /mnt
shutdown -rn now
If you want to compile your own kernel, you can find the default kernel's configuration at /boot/2.6.25.4/config.
Networking
Add your network configuration to /etc/init.d/network. For example:
hostname myprimebox
domainname local.lan
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0
Set your nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf. For example:
nameserver 192.168.1.1