Distributions—Linux - Debian
6.1.2Initial Debian System Configuration
On the first boot of the new Debian installation, the base-config application will be run. This will do more configuration of the system. Please consult the Debian home page for help with this process. I generally skip running the “tasksel” and “dselect” processes until I have tweaked the configuration of my system as discussed next.
When running Linux on any of the IOP HBA-type CRBs (i.e., IQ80321, IQ80331, etc), they will not have a real-time-clock (RTC) on board. As such, they will not retain the time across boots. To address this, we can install either rdate or ntp. A side effect of this is that for every login, there is a prompted to change the password. This is because password aging is enabled be default and the date is wrong, thus confusing the system.
6.1.3Maintaining System Time With Rdate
To enable the IA Linux host as an rdate server, issue the following commands on the server as root:
#/sbin/chkconfig time on
#/sbin/service xinetd restart
Then on the Intel XScale® microarchitecture-Linux target, issue the following commands to download and install the rdate package. This only needs to be done once.
# apt-get install rdate
To manually update the time on the target:
# rdate 192.168.0.1
Add the following to the '/etc/rc.local' or create it when it does not exist:
rdate -s 192.168.0.1
and ensure that it is executable and is called on each boot:
#chmod 755 /etc/rc.local
#cd /etc/rc2.d; ln -s ../rc.local ./S99local
#cd /etc/rc3.d; ln -s ../rc.local ./S99local
#cd /etc/rc4.d; ln -s ../rc.local ./S99local
#cd /etc/rc5.d; ln -s ../rc.local ./S99local
