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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
1.3 ! harris41 10: been tested.
1.1 harris41 11: <OL>
12: <LI>Get Redhat 6.2 on a CD by
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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.
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24: <LI>Install RedHat 6.2
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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>
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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>.
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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.
1.3 ! harris41 38: <LI>After installing the supplemental RPMS, install a final RPM set by downloading all files from
! 39: <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/FinalRPMS/">
! 40: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/FinalRPMS</A>.
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! 42: <LI>Use this command to install the RPMs you download: <TT>rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm</TT>.
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1.1 harris41 44: <LI>Configure needed files.
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46: <LI>Currently, reconfiguration must be handled manually and involves an administrator
47: altering configuration files present throughout the system. For a list of these
1.3 ! harris41 48: files and their descriptions, visit <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html">
! 49: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html</A>.
1.1 harris41 50: <LI>Important files are /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf, /etc/ntp.conf, /etc/krb.conf,
51: /home/httpd/lonTabs/spare.tab, /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab (if setting up a cluster different
1.3 ! harris41 52: than MSU's).
! 53: <LI>Run, as root, <TT>/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol start</TT>.
1.1 harris41 54: <LI>After 10 minutes, you should be able to check the file <TT>/home/httpd/html/lon-status/index.html</TT>
55: to see if your machine has been successfully set up.
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57: </OL>
58: </P>
59: <H3>Future Installation Procedure (not yet implemented)</H3>
60: <P>
61: In the future, LON-CAPA Installation will be distributed on a CD complete with a
62: customized interface. Many elements for doing this have been coded, and are in place, but
63: it awaits completion.
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