[Cs_announce] CompSci virtual machine

[Steve Garcia]

Back when we first started stay-at-home operations, I created a virtual 
machine that everyone could download and use as a workstation that would 
match the setup of what we had in the labs.  Unfortunately, that VM was 
rather large -- 19G as installed, and even compressed it was 11G in size. 
Not only that, but it appears that the outbound bandwidth for Odin has 
been throttled to about 1MB/s, so it would take a couple of hours to 
download that huge 11G file.

Instead, we have another option now.  If you are comfortable installing 
your own Linux OS, I am providing a file that will enable you to install 
most of the software and provide the same basic environment that we have 
in the labs.

Simply install Linux Mint in your own virtual machine (Ubuntu will 
probably work as well) and copy over the file I've attached to this 
message. You can either copy over the file that I've attached to this 
message, or you can use a browser inside your VM to download it from Odin, 
at https://www.cs.csub.edu/~steve/studentinstall.tar.gz

Once you have copied it to your installed VM, open a terminal, change to 
whatever directory you have copied the file to, and issue the following 
commands:

tar xvfz studentinstall.tar.gz
pushd studentinstall
sudo ./systemsetup

This will start an install of much of the configuration we use on our 
workstations.  It will *not* do much to configure your desktop 
environment.  You can set your environment up the way you like it.  It 
also does not do any of the administrative setup we do on the 
workstations -- no "student" or "support" accounts are created.  No 
nightly "reset the student account" occurs.

It's also not a "hands-off" install.  The installation script will stop 
occasionally and wait for you to approve some action it's taking or to 
make a decision.

This is a fairly straigtforward bash script.  If you want to make changes 
to it, feel free.

-- 
Steve Garcia
Operating Systems Analyst
Computer & Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
661-654-6748
steve at cs.csubak.edu
www.cs.csubak.edu/~steve
Ignorance killed the cat.  Curiosity was framed.
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