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<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>LON-CAPA Installation</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <H1>LON-CAPA Installation</H1> <H3>Current Installation Procedure</H3> <P> Scott Harrison </P> <P> Last updated: 11/21/2000 </P> <P> This is the current list of steps to support LON-CAPA installation. These steps have been tested. <OL> <LI>Get Redhat 6.2 on a CD by <UL> <LI>Using a RedHat 6.2 CD <LI>Downloading a RedHat 6.2 <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdimage">CD image</A> and burning a CD <LI>Or, alternatively do a network install from a <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource"> RedHat 6.2 CD source tree</A>. You need to burn a boot floppy disk with a network boot image; <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource/images/bootnet-20000407.img"> bootnet-20000407.img</A>. (Download the image file; insert a blank floppy disk; and type a command similar to: <TT>dd if=bootnet-20000407.img of=/dev/fd0</TT>). For installation, you need to specify <TT>hobbes.lite.msu.edu/~loninst</TT> as your download URL, and <TT>/3.1/currentcdsource</TT> as the source location. </UL> <LI>Install RedHat 6.2 <UL> <LI><B>Important: Do a "GNOME Workstation Install" and go with their default list of packages</B> <LI><B>Important: Make sure you add a user "www"</B> </UL> </P> <P> After installation, restart the computer. Login as root. Enter these two commands: <OL> <LI><TT>lynx -source http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/postinstall.pl>postinstall.pl</TT> <LI><TT>perl postinstall.pl</TT> </OL> </P> <P> As postinstall.pl runs, you will be asked various questions. Follow the instructions to correctly enter in the appropriate parameter values. </P> <HR> <H1>Old steps; do not use these...</H1> Last updated: 11/01/2000 </P> <P> This is the current list of steps to support LON-CAPA installation. These steps have been tested. <OL> <LI>Get Redhat 6.2 on a CD by <UL> <LI>Using a RedHat 6.2 CD <LI>Downloading a RedHat 6.2 <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdimage">CD image</A> and burning a CD <LI>Or, alternatively do a network install from a <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource"> RedHat 6.2 CD source tree</A>. You need to burn a boot floppy disk with a network boot image; <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource/images/bootnet-20000407.img"> bootnet-20000407.img</A>. (Download the image file; insert a blank floppy disk; and type a command similar to: <TT>dd if=bootnet-20000407.img of=/dev/fd0</TT>). For installation, you need to specify <TT>hobbes.lite.msu.edu/~loninst</TT> as your download URL, and <TT>/3.1/currentcdsource</TT> as the source location. </UL> <LI>Install RedHat 6.2 <UL> <LI><B>Important: Do a "GNOME Workstation Install" and go with their default list of packages</B> <LI><B>Important: Make sure you add a user "www"</B> </UL> <LI>After installation, install extra RPMs/upgrades by downloading all files from <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/SupplementalRPMS/"> http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/SupplementalRPMS</A>. <UL> <LI>Use this command to install the RPMs you download: <TT>rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm</TT>. </UL> <LI>Remove extra RPMs by downloading and running the script <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/remove_extra.sh"> http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/remove_extra.sh</A> as root. <LI>After installing the supplemental RPMS, install a final RPM set by downloading all files from <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/FinalRPMS/"> http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/FinalRPMS</A>. <UL> <LI>Use this command to install the RPMs you download: <TT>rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm</TT>. </UL> <LI>Configure needed files. <UL> <LI>Currently, reconfiguration must be handled manually and involves an administrator altering configuration files present throughout the system. For a list of these files and their descriptions, visit <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html"> http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html</A>. </UL> <LI>Important files are /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf, /etc/ntp.conf, /etc/krb.conf, /home/httpd/lonTabs/spare.tab, /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab (if setting up a cluster different than MSU's). <LI>Unshadow passwords <UL> <PRE>You can do this by these 5 steps: 1. enter the system command, as "root", pwunconv 2. enter the system command, as "root", grpunconv 3. Set the following to be the /etc/pam.d/login file on your system #%PAM-1.0 auth required /lib/security/pam_securetty.so auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so account required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so password required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so nullok use_authtok session required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so session optional /lib/security/pam_console.so 4. Set the following to be the /etc/pam.d/passwd file on your system #%PAM-1.0 auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok account required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3 password required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so use_authtok nullok 5. Set/reset passwords. As "root" use 'passwd', and 'passwd www' to change the important passwords. This creates crypt-processible passwords in /etc/passwd. </PRE> </UL> <LI>Run, as root, <TT>ln -s /etc/mime.types /etc/httpd/conf/mime.types</TT> <LI>Run, as root, <TT>/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start</TT>. <LI>Run, as root, <TT>/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol start</TT>. <LI>After 10 minutes, you should be able to check the file <TT>/home/httpd/html/lon-status/index.html</TT> to see if your machine has been successfully set up. </UL> </OL> </P> <H3>Future Installation Procedure (not yet implemented)</H3> <P> In the future, LON-CAPA Installation will be distributed on a CD complete with a customized interface. Many elements for doing this have been coded, and are in place, but it awaits completion. </P> </BODY> </HTML>