LON-CAPA Installation

Current Installation Procedure

Scott Harrison

Last updated: 02/22/2001

This is the current list of steps to support LON-CAPA installation. These steps have been tested.

1. Get LON-CAPA on a CD by
   • Requesting a LON-CAPA installation CD (c/o Dr. Kortemeyer, korte@lon-capa.org).
   • Or, downloading a LON-CAPA installation CD image and burning a CD.
   • (Depending on whether your computer has a bootable CD-ROM, you may need to also make a boot floppy. Download this floppy disk image file: boot-20000407.img. (Download the image file; insert a blank floppy disk; and type this command: dd if=boot-20000407.img of=/dev/fd0).
2. Install with CD-ROM
   • Follow the CD-ROM installation instructions
3. After installation, restart the computer. Login as root. Enter this command (you only need to do this after your first reboot):
   1. sh /usr/sbin/loncapa_configure

You can also try to install LON-CAPA on an existing installation of RedHat 6.2. Please see how_to_install_loncapa_on_a_preinstalled_system.txt.