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Packaging the CIVAL eth2 setup

Manual Setup

Quick Highlights

Here's a summary of the hardware, both real and virtual, used for the first working setup.

Hardware Specs

• Mobo: ASUS P7P55D (standard, not PRO)
• CPU: Intel i5 2.7Ghz 4-cores
• RAM: 16 GB RAM
• NVMe: 1 TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe
• Adapter: RIITOP NVMe M.2 SSD to PCIe x4/x8/x16 Converter Card with Heat Sink (motherboard-limited to PCIe 2.0 x4)
• Various other SATA SSDs and hard disks used only by the host OS, not directly by the virtual hardware
• Ledger Nano S Hardware Wallet - used for transaction to the validator's deposit contract

Virtual Hardware Specs

• CPU: 3-cores
• RAM: 8 GB (does not include SWAP-RAM below)
• SWAP-RAM: 22 GB (hosted on NVMe file system below)
• Disk: 500 GB dynamic virtual hard disk and file system hosted on NVMe hardware

Virtual Machine Software

• VirtualBox 6.x
• Ubuntu 20.04
• eth1 node: Geth
• eth2 beacon node: Prysm
• eth2 validator node: Prysm
• NTP system time enabled
• SSH enabled and locked down (TODO; not enabled yet)
• Keys pre-generated by eth2deposit-cli-ed5a6d3-linux-amd64
• Onboarding done on the official eth2 Launchpad: https://launchpad.ethereum.org/
• Metamask Eth Wallet software (plugin for Chrome and Firefox) for initiating transaction to the validator's deposit contract with Ledger Nano S hardware wallet support