Latest revision as of 16:01, 10 January 2012

After cloning a system from the ReferencePlatforms, the following steps need to be done on the new system. In general, IT will take care of the steps here. The releng crew (usually slave duty) will then finish things up with ReleaseEngineering/How To/Set Up a Freshly Imaged Slave

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-After cloning a system from the [[ReferencePlatforms|ReferencePlatforms]], the following steps need to be done on the new system:
+After cloning a system from the [[ReferencePlatforms|ReferencePlatforms]], the following steps need to be done on the new system.  In general, IT will take care of the steps here.  The releng crew (usually slave duty) will then finish things up with [[ReleaseEngineering/How To/Set Up a Freshly Imaged Slave]]
-'''Leopard/Snow Leopard'''
+= Leopard/Snow Leopard/Lion =
+* Ensure that resistor dongle is installed.
-Set the hostname by opening up Terminal and typing:
+= Fedora/CentOS =
-scutil --set HostName hostname.domain.tld
+= Windows XP and Windows 2003 and Windows 7 =
-replacing hostname.domain.tld with the actual fully qualified domain name.
+= Windows 7 =
+* Make sure Windows is activated (see the mana page for instructions)
-Ensure that resistor dongle is installed.
-Go to System Preferences -> Bluetooth -> Advanced and clear the checkbox for "Open Bluetooth Setup Assistant at startup when no input device is present"
-'''Fedora/CentOS'''
-Open a terminal window and su - to become root.
-Then edit the file /etc/sysconfig/network , changing the hostname to the hosts fully qualified domain name.
-'''Windows XP'''
-Open System Properties and go to Computer Name tab, click on Change and enter the host's hostname there. Then click on 'more settings' to add the hosts domain name to the DNS suffix field.