Burn the disk image to a DVD [] and boot from it. Or use the image to boot a virtual machine as I have done here. After clicking through the welcome screen, select your language and keyboard layout []
Assign your machine a host name.
[] I happen to control the clusterlabs.org domain name, so I will use that here.
You will then be prompted to indicate the machine’s physical location and to supply a root password. []
Now select where you want Fedora installed.
[] As I don’t care about any existing data, I will accept the default and allow Fedora to use the complete drive. However I want to reserve some space for DRBD, so I'll check the
Review and modify partitioning layout
box.
By default, Fedora will give all the space to the
/
(aka. root) partition. Wel'll take some back so we can use DRBD.
The finalized partition layout should look something like the diagram below.
Important
If you plan on following the DRBD or GFS2 portions of this guide, you should reserve at least 1Gb of space on each machine from which to create a shared volume.
Next choose which software should be installed. Change the selection to
Web Server
since we plan on using Apache. Don't enable updates yet, we'll do that (and install any extra software we need) later. After you click next, Fedora will begin installing.
Once the node reboots, follow the on screen instructions
[] to create a system user and configure the time.
Note
It is highly recommended to enable NTP on your cluster nodes. Doing so ensures all nodes agree on the current time and makes reading log files significantly easier.
Click through the next screens until you reach the login window. Click on the user you created and supply the password you indicated earlier.
Important
Do not accept the default network settings. Cluster machines should never obtain an ip address via DHCP. Here I will use the internal addresses for the clusterlab.org network.
Note
That was the last screenshot, from here on in we’re going to be working from the terminal.