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 <H1>LON-CAPA Installation</H1>  </head>
 <H3>Current Installation Procedure</H3>  <body>
 <P>  <h1>LON-CAPA Installation</h1>
 This is the current list of steps to support LON-CAPA installation.  These steps have  <h3>Current Installation Procedure</h3>
 been tested (almost, I'm going to do this today).  <p>
 <OL>  Scott Harrison
 <LI>Get Redhat 6.2 on a CD by  </p>
 <UL>  <p>$Date$; $Revision$</p>
 <LI>Using a RedHat 6.2 CD  <p>
 <LI>Downloading a RedHat 6.2 <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdimage">CD image</A> and burning a CD  This is the current list of steps to support LON-CAPA installation.  These
 <LI>Or, alternatively do a network install from a <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource">  steps have been tested.</p>
 RedHat 6.2 CD source tree</A>.  You need to burn a boot floppy disk with a network boot image;  <ol>
 <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource/images/bootnet-20000407.img">  <li>Get LON-CAPA on a CD by
 bootnet-20000407.img</A>.  (Download the image file; insert a blank floppy disk; and type a  <ul>
 command similar to: <TT>dd if=bootnet-20000407.img of=/dev/fd0</TT>).  For installation, you  <li>Requesting a LON-CAPA installation CD (c/o Helen Keefe, 
 need to specify <TT>http://www.lon-capa.org</TT> as your download URL, and <TT>/install/3.1/currentcdsource</TT>  helen@lon-capa.org).</li>
 as the source location.  <li>Or, downloading a LON-CAPA installation
 </UL>  <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdimage">CD image</A> and
 <LI>Install RedHat 6.2  burning a CD.</li>
 <UL>  <li>(Depending on whether your computer has a bootable CD-ROM, you may
 <LI><B>Important: Do a "GNOME Workstation Install" and go with their default list of packages</B>  need to also make a boot floppy.  Download this floppy disk image file: 
 <LI><B>Important: Make sure you add a user "www"</B>  <a href=
 </UL>  "http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource/images/boot-20000407.img">
 <LI>After installation, install extra RPMs/upgrades by downloading all files from  boot-20000407.img</a>.  (Download the image file; insert a blank floppy disk;
 <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/SupplementalRPMS/">  and type this command: <tt>dd if=boot-20000407.img of=/dev/fd0</tt>).</li>
 http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/SupplementalRPMS</A>.  </ul></li>
 <UL>  <li>Install with CD-ROM
 <LI>Use this command to install the RPMs you download: <TT>rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm</TT>.  <ul>
 </UL>  <li>Follow the <A HREF="instructions_with_cd.html">
 <LI>Remove extra RPMs by downloading and running the script   CD-ROM installation instructions</a></li>
 <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/remove_extra.sh">  </ul></li>
 http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/remove_extra.sh</A> as root.  <li>After installation, restart the computer.  Login as root.  Enter this
 <LI>Configure needed files.  command (you only need to do this after your first reboot):
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 <LI>Currently, reconfiguration must be handled manually and involves an administrator  <li><tt>sh /usr/sbin/loncapa_configure</tt></li>
 altering configuration files present throughout the system.  For a list of these  </ol></li>
 files and their descriptions, visit <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/loncapafiles.html">  </ol>
 http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/loncapafiles.html</A>.  <hr />
 <LI>Important files are /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf, /etc/ntp.conf, /etc/krb.conf,    <p>
 /home/httpd/lonTabs/spare.tab, /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab (if setting up a cluster different  You can also try to install LON-CAPA on an existing installation of
 than MSU's)  RedHat 6.2.  Please see <a
 <LI>Run <B>AS USER=www (NEVER EVER EVER EVER AS USER=root)</B> <TT>/home/httpd/perl/loncron &</TT>.  href='how_to_install_loncapa_on_a_preinstalled_system.txt'>
 <LI>After 10 minutes, you should be able to check the file <TT>/home/httpd/html/lon-status/index.html</TT>  how_to_install_loncapa_on_a_preinstalled_system.txt</a>.
 to see if your machine has been successfully set up.  </p>
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 <H3>Future Installation Procedure (not yet implemented)</H3>  
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 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.  
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