Install RedHat 6.2
- Important: Do a "GNOME Workstation Install" and go with their default list of packages
- Important: Make sure you add a user "www"
After installation, restart the computer. Login as root. Enter these two commands:
- lynx -source http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/postinstall.pl>postinstall.pl
- perl postinstall.pl
As postinstall.pl runs, you will be asked various questions. Follow the instructions to correctly
enter in the appropriate parameter values.
Old steps; do not use these...
Last updated: 11/01/2000
This is the current list of steps to support LON-CAPA installation. These steps have
been tested.
- Get Redhat 6.2 on a CD by
- Using a RedHat 6.2 CD
- Downloading a RedHat 6.2 CD image and burning a CD
- Or, alternatively do a network install from a
RedHat 6.2 CD source tree. You need to burn a boot floppy disk with a network boot image;
bootnet-20000407.img. (Download the image file; insert a blank floppy disk; and type a
command similar to: dd if=bootnet-20000407.img of=/dev/fd0). For installation, you
need to specify hobbes.lite.msu.edu/~loninst as your download URL, and /3.1/currentcdsource
as the source location.
- Install RedHat 6.2
- Important: Do a "GNOME Workstation Install" and go with their default list of packages
- Important: Make sure you add a user "www"
- After installation, install extra RPMs/upgrades by downloading all files from
http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/SupplementalRPMS.
- Use this command to install the RPMs you download: rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm.
- Remove extra RPMs by downloading and running the script
http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/remove_extra.sh as root.
- After installing the supplemental RPMS, install a final RPM set by downloading all files from
http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/FinalRPMS.
- Use this command to install the RPMs you download: rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm.
- Configure needed files.
- Important files are /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf, /etc/ntp.conf, /etc/krb.conf,
/home/httpd/lonTabs/spare.tab, /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab (if setting up a cluster different
than MSU's).
- Unshadow passwords
You can do this by these 5 steps:
1. enter the system command, as "root", pwunconv
2. enter the system command, as "root", grpunconv
3. Set the following to be the /etc/pam.d/login file on your system
#%PAM-1.0
auth required /lib/security/pam_securetty.so
auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok
auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so
account required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so
password required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so nullok use_authtok
session required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
session optional /lib/security/pam_console.so
4. Set the following to be the /etc/pam.d/passwd file on your system
#%PAM-1.0
auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok
account required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3
password required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so use_authtok nullok
5. Set/reset passwords. As "root" use 'passwd', and 'passwd www'
to change the important passwords. This creates crypt-processible
passwords in /etc/passwd.
- Run, as root, ln -s /etc/mime.types /etc/httpd/conf/mime.types
- Run, as root, /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start.
- Run, as root, /etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol start.
- After 10 minutes, you should be able to check the file /home/httpd/html/lon-status/index.html
to see if your machine has been successfully set up.
Future Installation Procedure (not yet implemented)
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.