these were used for the hardware deployed in Feb 2011.

ubuntu 10.10 server install.  md0 is a small root partition.
sd[ab]2 is a 96G mirror. sd[ab]3 is a mirror of the rest of the disk.
mdadm -C --level=mirror -n 2 /dev/md1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2
mdadm -C --level=mirror -n 2 /dev/md2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3
mkfs.xfs /dev/md1
mkfs.xfs /dev/md2
echo "UUID=56a6ce21-44fd-4f67-b668-a22fba379503	/news/spool/group	xfs	noatime	0	1" >> /etc/fstab
echo "UUID=a1b1afed-9df8-4d60-88c6-8f7b267abe1c	/news/spool/news	xfs	noatime	0	1" >> /etc/fstab

apt-get install ssh-krb5 krb5-clients krb5-user libpam-krb5 bind9

copy in keytab

copy in ~root/.k5login

uptrack install:
wget -N https://www.ksplice.com/uptrack/install-uptrack
sh install-uptrack ef49f47f2e5e6145406f4298b207b22434c17642d4c5a9fdf8f2be7150c24da6
uptrack-upgrade -y

apt-get install smartmontools build-essential libdb-dev zlib1g-dev liblz-dev csh emacs23-nox nfs-common
perl -i -p -e 's/#start_smartd/start_smartd/' /etc/default/smartmontools

echo "root: usenet@mit.edu" > /etc/aliases
echo "usenet: usenet@mit.edu" > /etc/aliases
newaliases

mkdir /news/dbin /news/spool /news/log news/dqueue 
mkdir /news/spool/cache 
mount /news/spool/news
mount /news/spool/group
mkdir /news/spool/news2

do the diablo install.  copy in config files

chown -R news:news /news

# install AFS
apt-get install openafs-client openafs-krb5

# setup backup job