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1: <HTML> 2: <HEAD> 3: <TITLE>LON-CAPA Installation</TITLE> 4: </HEAD> 5: <BODY> 6: <H1>LON-CAPA Installation</H1> 7: <H3>Current Installation Procedure</H3> 8: <P> 9: Scott Harrison 10: </P> 11: <P> 12: Last updated: 11/21/2000 13: </P> 14: <P> 15: This is the current list of steps to support LON-CAPA installation. These steps have 16: been tested. 17: <OL> 18: <LI>Get Redhat 6.2 on a CD by 19: <UL> 20: <LI>Using a RedHat 6.2 CD 21: <LI>Downloading a RedHat 6.2 <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdimage">CD image</A> and burning a CD 22: <LI>Or, alternatively do a network install from a <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource"> 23: RedHat 6.2 CD source tree</A>. You need to burn a boot floppy disk with a network boot image; 24: <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource/images/bootnet-20000407.img"> 25: bootnet-20000407.img</A>. (Download the image file; insert a blank floppy disk; and type a 26: command similar to: <TT>dd if=bootnet-20000407.img of=/dev/fd0</TT>). For installation, you 27: need to specify <TT>hobbes.lite.msu.edu/~loninst</TT> as your download URL, and <TT>/3.1/currentcdsource</TT> 28: as the source location. 29: </UL> 30: <LI>Install RedHat 6.2 31: <UL> 32: <LI><B>Important: Do a "GNOME Workstation Install" and go with their default list of packages</B> 33: <LI><B>Important: Make sure you add a user "www"</B> 34: </UL> 35: </P> 36: <P> 37: After installation, restart the computer. Login as root. Enter these two commands: 38: <OL> 39: <LI><TT>lynx -source http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/postinstall.pl>postinstall.pl</TT> 40: <LI><TT>perl postinstall.pl</TT> 41: </OL> 42: </P> 43: <P> 44: As postinstall.pl runs, you will be asked various questions. Follow the instructions to correctly 45: enter in the appropriate parameter values. 46: </P> 47: <HR> 48: <H1>Old steps; do not use these...</H1> 49: Last updated: 11/01/2000 50: </P> 51: <P> 52: This is the current list of steps to support LON-CAPA installation. These steps have 53: been tested. 54: <OL> 55: <LI>Get Redhat 6.2 on a CD by 56: <UL> 57: <LI>Using a RedHat 6.2 CD 58: <LI>Downloading a RedHat 6.2 <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdimage">CD image</A> and burning a CD 59: <LI>Or, alternatively do a network install from a <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource"> 60: RedHat 6.2 CD source tree</A>. You need to burn a boot floppy disk with a network boot image; 61: <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource/images/bootnet-20000407.img"> 62: bootnet-20000407.img</A>. (Download the image file; insert a blank floppy disk; and type a 63: command similar to: <TT>dd if=bootnet-20000407.img of=/dev/fd0</TT>). For installation, you 64: need to specify <TT>hobbes.lite.msu.edu/~loninst</TT> as your download URL, and <TT>/3.1/currentcdsource</TT> 65: as the source location. 66: </UL> 67: <LI>Install RedHat 6.2 68: <UL> 69: <LI><B>Important: Do a "GNOME Workstation Install" and go with their default list of packages</B> 70: <LI><B>Important: Make sure you add a user "www"</B> 71: </UL> 72: <LI>After installation, install extra RPMs/upgrades by downloading all files from 73: <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/SupplementalRPMS/"> 74: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/SupplementalRPMS</A>. 75: <UL> 76: <LI>Use this command to install the RPMs you download: <TT>rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm</TT>. 77: </UL> 78: <LI>Remove extra RPMs by downloading and running the script 79: <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/remove_extra.sh"> 80: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/remove_extra.sh</A> as root. 81: <LI>After installing the supplemental RPMS, install a final RPM set by downloading all files from 82: <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/FinalRPMS/"> 83: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/FinalRPMS</A>. 84: <UL> 85: <LI>Use this command to install the RPMs you download: <TT>rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm</TT>. 86: </UL> 87: <LI>Configure needed files. 88: <UL> 89: <LI>Currently, reconfiguration must be handled manually and involves an administrator 90: altering configuration files present throughout the system. For a list of these 91: files and their descriptions, visit <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html"> 92: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html</A>. 93: </UL> 94: <LI>Important files are /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf, /etc/ntp.conf, /etc/krb.conf, 95: /home/httpd/lonTabs/spare.tab, /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab (if setting up a cluster different 96: than MSU's). 97: <LI>Unshadow passwords 98: <UL> 99: <PRE>You can do this by these 5 steps: 100: 1. enter the system command, as "root", pwunconv 101: 2. enter the system command, as "root", grpunconv 102: 3. Set the following to be the /etc/pam.d/login file on your system 103: #%PAM-1.0 104: auth required /lib/security/pam_securetty.so 105: auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok 106: auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so 107: account required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so 108: password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so 109: password required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so nullok use_authtok 110: session required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so 111: session optional /lib/security/pam_console.so 112: 4. Set the following to be the /etc/pam.d/passwd file on your system 113: #%PAM-1.0 114: auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok 115: account required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so 116: password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3 117: password required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so use_authtok nullok 118: 5. Set/reset passwords. As "root" use 'passwd', and 'passwd www' 119: to change the important passwords. This creates crypt-processible 120: passwords in /etc/passwd. 121: </PRE> 122: </UL> 123: <LI>Run, as root, <TT>ln -s /etc/mime.types /etc/httpd/conf/mime.types</TT> 124: <LI>Run, as root, <TT>/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start</TT>. 125: <LI>Run, as root, <TT>/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol start</TT>. 126: <LI>After 10 minutes, you should be able to check the file <TT>/home/httpd/html/lon-status/index.html</TT> 127: to see if your machine has been successfully set up. 128: </UL> 129: </OL> 130: </P> 131: <H3>Future Installation Procedure (not yet implemented)</H3> 132: <P> 133: In the future, LON-CAPA Installation will be distributed on a CD complete with a 134: customized interface. Many elements for doing this have been coded, and are in place, but 135: it awaits completion. 136: </P> 137: </BODY> 138: </HTML>