Open Genera Installation on Linux

About

These notes are based upon the steps provided here:

https://archives.loomcom.com/genera/genera-install.html

The notes in this Gist were created due to multiple attempts at installing Open Genera on different platforms that required more steps not inlcuded in the source notes above.

Steps

1. Downloads and Local Environment

Download the following docs:

Download the Open Genera files:

mkdir -p genera/docs
mv ~/Downloads/*.pdf ./genera/docs
mv ~/Downloads/* ./genera
cd ./genera

2. Service Dependencies

su - 
vi /etc/sudoers
apt-get install inetutils-inetd inetutils-tools nfs-common nfs-kernel-server uml-utilities net-tools moreutils

vi /etc/inetd.conf
time      stream  tcp  nowait root internal
time      dgram   udp  wait   root internal
daytime   stream  tcp  nowait root internal
daytime   dgram   udp  wait   root internal

vi /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server
RPCNFSDCOUNT="--nfs-version 2 8"
RPCMOUNTDOPTS="--nfs-version 2 --manage-gids"

vi /etc/exports
/       genera(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,all_squash,anonuid=1000,anongid=1000)

vi /etc/hosts
192.168.2.1    genera-vlm
192.168.2.2    genera

systemctl restart inetutils-inetd.service
systemctl restart nfs-kernel-server

ip tuntap add dev tap0 mode tap
ip addr add 192.168.2.1/24 dev tap0
ip link set dev tap0 up

exit

3. Open Genera Installation and Configuration

cd /var/lib
tar xvf ~/genera/var_lib_symbolics.tar.gz
sudo chown -R oubiwann:oubiwann symbolics
cd -
mv dot.VLM .VLM
vi .VLM
:%s/seth/oubiwann/g
chmod 755 ./genera

4. Running Open Genera

./genera

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