--- doc/build/sles10_install.frag 2006/10/09 17:18:14 1.1 +++ doc/build/sles10_install.frag 2008/05/22 21:39:15 1.3 @@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ Most of the subsequent installation scre There are a few steps that require comment and are dealt with below.

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Installation Language
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Use English as your installation language.
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Partitioning your Drive
For a LON-CAPA library server (i.e., the main server used for permanent storage of course and user data), @@ -108,10 +111,17 @@ Execute: yast

-Select "Change Source of Installation". The media you used to install SLES10 will be listed as an installation source. You may also wish to create a local repository by copying the contents of the RPM directories on the five CDs to a local directory to avoid the need to flip CDs during LON-CAPA installation. Information about building a local repository is available at:http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/02/yast_instsrc.html. -

+Select "Change Source of Installation". The media you used to install SLES10 will be listed as an installation source. If you do not already have a SLES10 installation source at your location, you may want to consider creating one from the 4 iso files for CDs 1 - 4, to avoid the need to flip CDs during LON-CAPA installation. Proceed as follows (e.g., for 32 bit):

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+mkdir -p sles10/CD1
+mount -o ro,loop SLES-10-x86-CD1.iso /mnt
+cp -rv /mnt/* sles10/CD1
+umount /mnt
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+Repeat those steps with CD2, CD3 and CD4.

Add an additional installation source

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Add the LON-CAPA SLES 10 repository as an additional installation source, so software installation in yast will have access to two repositories - a SuSE/Novell source (for packages included for the standard distribution) and the LON-CAPA repository (for extra packages needed to run LON-CAPA). For the LON-CAPA source you will use: +

Add the LON-CAPA SLES 10 repository as an additional installation source, so software installation in yast will have access to at least two repositories - a SuSE/Novell source (for packages included for the standard distribution) and the LON-CAPA repository (for extra packages needed to run LON-CAPA). For the LON-CAPA source you will use:

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