how to install and configure (testnet) soil - stepwise manual

Here is my fabulous stepwise manual how to install the testnetsoil node, with a few tricks and shortcuts to make my life easier. Shorter manuals are possible, of course - but I developed that one, because I wanted to understand each and every step, and make my system easy to use. And -yet unsolved(*)- as secure as possible, by locking down the firewall.  Perhaps this helps anyone tonight.

The firewall iptables (*) I have understood better by now, so I might create a solution for that in the next days. If you know your iptables, feel free to try. My goal was to INPUT & OUTPUT drop ALL, apart from the soil traffic (and ssh of course) ... to create a hyper-secure node.

Anyways, these are the steps that I took to get the testnet node running, attached, DAG generated, and CPU mining enabled:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg12469498#msg12469498 init
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg12469524#msg12469524 firewall?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg12469824#msg12469824 delete chain, start anew
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg12469900#msg12469900 DAG generation
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg12469934#msg12469934 ready
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg12469987#msg12469987 what is DAG
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg12470034#msg12470034 hashrate

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg12476297#msg12476297 some more iptables experiments
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg12476773#msg12476773 iptables -P OUTPUT DROP (unfinished)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg12476860#msg12476860 how to report your ... admin.addPeer('enode://...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg12476984#msg12476984 idea how to OUTPUT DROP

If anyone wants to make a shorter manual from that - yes please.

I will edit in my main net address here: ________________________________ - remember that giving can make you happy :-)

Good luck to everyone for the launch!

 



EDIT: shorter manuals (will put them here once they are posted)
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