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This page is kept for historical purposes only. If you want current information, go back to the [[Chica]] article.

= March 2010 solid state IDE drive setup =

This 8GB drive mounts Ubuntu Desktop 9.10 32bit, with username '''icub'''.

== Partitions ==

Automated partitioning resulted in:
/ 7.7GB ext4
swap 400MB

After the default CD installation, we had 4.8GB of available free space on <code>/</code>.

== Show boot menu ==

We commented this line in <code>/etc/default/grub</code>:
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0

Then we ran <code>sudo update-grub</code>.

== Network ==

We configured the internet connection in Systems -> Preferences -> Network Connections:
address 10.10.1.60
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.10.1.254
dns servers: 193.136.128.1

== Tweaks to minimize writes on the solid state drive ==

To enable suggestions 1-3 of [http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/09/04/four-tweaks-for-using-linux-with-solid-state-drives/ this article], use <code>/etc/fstab.optimizied</code> as <code>fstab</code>.

Right now we do not use those tweaks, using the default <code>/etc/fstab.bak</code> as <code>fstab</code>.

== Additional packages and environment variables ==

* We installed some required packages:
sudo apt-get install gcc g++ make cmake cmake-curses-gui subversion ssh libace-dev libgsl0-dev libncurses5-dev
sudo apt-get install libcv1 libcvaux1 libcvaux-dev libcv-dev libhighgui1 libhighgui-dev opencv-doc python-opencv

* We created a file called <code>~/.bash_env</code> (used by interactive and non-interactive sessions, including commands launched via graphical demo managers and <code>yarprun</code>) containing these lines:
export ICUB_DIR=/home/icub/iCub
export ICUB_ROOT=$ICUB_DIR
export YARP_DIR=/home/icub/yarp2
export YARP_ROOT=$YARP_DIR
export PATH=$PATH:$ICUB_DIR/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$YARP_DIR/bin

* Before the following line of <code>/etc/bash.bashrc</code>
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return
we added this:
# per-user environment variables (non-interactive and interactive mode)
source $HOME/.bash_env

== Subversion security ==

We have set the following parameter in <code>/etc/subversion/config</code>:
store-passwords = no
This implies that SVN will ask you for your password every time you do a commit. (Don't worry about changing <code>icub</code>'s personal <code>~/.subversion/config</code> file: the parameter is not actually set there, so the global <code>/etc</code> setting is used.)

== RobotCub software ==

Following the instructions in article [[RobotCub software]], we installed the '''yarp2''' and '''iCub''' repositories with SVN. In the CMake configurations, always set this for performance:
CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Release

For the actual compilation, use
make
and do not run <code>sudo make install</code> afterwards.

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Giovanni Saponaro at 15:58, 19 March 2010

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