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                      3: <TITLE>LON-CAPA Installation</TITLE>
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                      6: <H1>LON-CAPA Installation</H1>
                      7: <H3>Current Installation Procedure</H3>
                      8: <P>
                      9: This is the current list of steps to support LON-CAPA installation.  These steps have
                     10: been tested (almost, I'm going to do this today).
                     11: <OL>
                     12: <LI>Get Redhat 6.2 on a CD by
                     13: <UL>
                     14: <LI>Using a RedHat 6.2 CD
1.2     ! harris41   15: <LI>Downloading a RedHat 6.2 <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdimage">CD image</A> and burning a CD
        !            16: <LI>Or, alternatively do a network install from a <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource">
1.1       harris41   17: RedHat 6.2 CD source tree</A>.  You need to burn a boot floppy disk with a network boot image;
1.2     ! harris41   18: <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource/images/bootnet-20000407.img">
1.1       harris41   19: bootnet-20000407.img</A>.  (Download the image file; insert a blank floppy disk; and type a
                     20: command similar to: <TT>dd if=bootnet-20000407.img of=/dev/fd0</TT>).  For installation, you
                     21: need to specify <TT>http://www.lon-capa.org</TT> as your download URL, and <TT>/install/3.1/currentcdsource</TT>
                     22: as the source location.
                     23: </UL>
                     24: <LI>Install RedHat 6.2
                     25: <UL>
                     26: <LI><B>Important: Do a "GNOME Workstation Install" and go with their default list of packages</B>
                     27: <LI><B>Important: Make sure you add a user "www"</B>
                     28: </UL>
                     29: <LI>After installation, install extra RPMs/upgrades by downloading all files from
1.2     ! harris41   30: <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/SupplementalRPMS/">
        !            31: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/SupplementalRPMS</A>.
1.1       harris41   32: <UL>
                     33: <LI>Use this command to install the RPMs you download: <TT>rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm</TT>.
                     34: </UL>
                     35: <LI>Remove extra RPMs by downloading and running the script 
1.2     ! harris41   36: <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/remove_extra.sh">
        !            37: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/remove_extra.sh</A> as root.
1.1       harris41   38: <LI>Configure needed files.
                     39: <UL>
                     40: <LI>Currently, reconfiguration must be handled manually and involves an administrator
                     41: altering configuration files present throughout the system.  For a list of these
1.2     ! harris41   42: files and their descriptions, visit <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/loncapafiles.html">
        !            43: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/loncapafiles.html</A>.
1.1       harris41   44: <LI>Important files are /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf, /etc/ntp.conf, /etc/krb.conf,  
                     45: /home/httpd/lonTabs/spare.tab, /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab (if setting up a cluster different
                     46: than MSU's)
                     47: <LI>Run <B>AS USER=www (NEVER EVER EVER EVER AS USER=root)</B> <TT>/home/httpd/perl/loncron &</TT>.
                     48: <LI>After 10 minutes, you should be able to check the file <TT>/home/httpd/html/lon-status/index.html</TT>
                     49: to see if your machine has been successfully set up.
                     50: </UL>
                     51: </OL>
                     52: </P>
                     53: <H3>Future Installation Procedure (not yet implemented)</H3>
                     54: <P>
                     55: In the future, LON-CAPA Installation will be distributed on a CD complete with a
                     56: customized interface.  Many elements for doing this have been coded, and are in place, but
                     57: it awaits completion.
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