doc/build/install.html - view

File: [LON-CAPA] / doc / build / Attic / install.html
Revision 1.8: download - view: text, annotated - select for diffs
Tue Nov 21 15:45:00 2000 UTC (23 years, 6 months ago) by harris41
Branches: MAIN
CVS tags: HEAD

fixed html syntax

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