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  Scott Harrison
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+ 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&gt;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
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