26.01.2008 20:10

• Boot from the live CD and click on install
• choose the manual mode for the partitioner, setup the mount points etc, as you want them, I mount the local disk on /local.
• local user:
  you have to set up a local user during the installation, this one will automatically be given sudo-privileges. Choose a user name, which does not exist as a NIS account.
• After the installation, reboot, then
• install your favourite editor, it's probably not there yet...
• The home directory of the local account is mounted in /home. I wanted this as a mount point for the NIS accounts, and I already had a local user on the Suse installation so I changed the home directory of the local user to this old one in /local.
• Logout and login again, you are now in your new home directory.
• Do an update, but be careful! In my case (for 64bit version) there was a kernel update which seems to be incompatible with my motherboard (a Foxconn board, can't be recommended...) Gutsy runs 2.2.22-14.46 from the CD. The update was to 2.2.22-14.47. I believe, the update overwrites the original kernel, at least there was no choice which kernel to boot in grub. I had to reboot from CD and start the installation once more. This time I skipped the kernel update. But of course it's generally a good idea to make an update after installation, there might be a whole lot of security updates.
• Install all shells you can think of (tcsh, ksh, csh...). Ubuntu does not come with so many of them and there are problems loggin into a NIS account later on, if the account uses a shell that is not installed on the system. Especially tcsh is often set as the standard login shell. Btw, in Ubuntu /bin/sh points to dash not to bash. I don't know why. I changed it.
• Set up the network connection:
  Go to
  system > administration > network: select wired connection and set the all the properties, IP, DNS, subnet mask etc. if you are not using dhcp.
• NIS:
  First you have to install a bunch of things:
  sudo apt-get install ssh
  sudo apt-get install portmap
  sudo apt-get install nis
  sudo apt-get install autofs
  sudo apt-get install nfs-common
  
  Now edit /etc/passwd
  add

  +::::::

  at the end of the file (6 colons).
  edit /etc/group add

  +:::

  at the end of the file (3 colons).
  Then edit /etc/shadow as well and add

  +::::::::

  at the end (8 colons).
  Edit /etc/yp.conf. Add

  ypserver IP_OF_NISSERVER

  Set up the automounter. Add

  * IP_OF_NISSERVER:/path/to/home/dirs&

  to /etc/auto.home and write

  /home /etc/auto.home

  into the file /etc/auto.master.
  Finally, you have to edit /etc/nsswitch.conf. This file is used by the libc, so it can potentially be devastating if you add something there which is incompatible with your libc version. Puuh, I have had it all... Add the line

  automount nis files

  Now restart autofs, nis and sshd.
  sudo /etc/init.d/autofs restart
  sudo /etc/init.d/nis restart
  sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
  
  With this I could login to my NIS account. Maybe you have to reboot at this point to get it going.
• CUPS:
  simply add the line

  ServerName your_cups_server:631

  or whatever port you use for cups. to /etc/cups/client.conf then run
  sudo /etc/init.d/cupssys restart