<sect1 id="repo-ws-install">

    <title>Installing Your Workstation</title>

    <para>

        In order to have a working copy of &TCAR; in your workstation,

        the first step you need to follow is pick up a computer and

        install an operating system in it. This computer will be named

        the workstation from now on. 

    </para>

    <para>

        At the moment of chosing which operating system to install in

        your workstation, consider that &TCAR; is completly built on

        &TC;; and realies on it to achieve most automation tasks. At

        time of this writing &TC;; release 5.5 was used as platform to

        support all development work lines inside &TCAR; working copy.

        So, in order to get a reproducable environemtn, it is

        convenient that you, too, use the same version of the

        operating system that we did. 

    </para>

    <para>

        To install &TC;; you need to have access to the installation

        media somehow (e.g., CDs, DVDs, Pendrives, etc.).  If you

        don't have the installation media of &TC;;, you need to

        download the ISO files related to the installation media you

        plan to use (e.g., CD or DVD) and then create the installation

        media by yourself.  &TC;; ISO files can be downloaded from

        &TC;;.

    </para>

    <sect2 id="repo-ws-install-burning">

    <title>Burning The Installation Media</title>

    <para>

        Assuming you downloaded the DVD ISO of &TC;;, you can burn it

        using the <application>K3B</application> application and, this

        way, you are creating the installation media you are in need

        of.  Of course, in order to download the ISO files and create

        the installation media, you need to have a workstation already

        functionality where you can realized such tasks. If this is

        the first time for you and see yourself into much troubles

        here, talk to the guys in your nearest LUG, or simply send a

        mail to &TCML; where you'll surely have the answer you need.

    </para>

    <para>

        Once you have the installation media on your hands, the

        installation process of &TC;; is rather straightforward. To

        begin, you put the installation media in your media reader,

        boot the computer from it, and follow the installer

        intructions till it completes all the steps. That simple.

    </para>

    </sect2>

    <sect2 id="repo-ws-install-partition">

    <title>Partition Information</title>

    <para>

        The partition information you set in your workstation is very

        specific to your personal needs and the technical

        characteristics of your machine.  The partitioning information 

        set the bases of all deployment you pretend to achieve inside

        the workstation. Generally, the default partitioning schema

        suggested by &TC;; installer is fine for most avarage

        workstations, but if you need to customize it, a complete

        description about how to do it can be found in the

        <citetitle>Deployment Guide</citetitle> provided by the

        <package>Deployment_Guide-en-US</package> package.

    </para>

    <para>

        The amount of space required to store a clean working copy of

        &TCAR; is about 1GB. Later, when you start rendering content,

        more space will be required. There is no specific space we can

        suggest since the final amount of space required depends on

        the amount of content you produce after downloading a clean

        working copy; just be sure to leave enough space to work

        (e.g., 10GB seems to be a good number) whatever your partition

        information be.

    </para>

    </sect2>

    <sect2 id="repo-ws-install-packages">

    <title>Packages Selection</title>

    <para>

        The packages selection lets you to specify which software does

        your workstation will have once it be installed. In this step,

        you need to select the following groups of packages:

    </para>

    <itemizedlist>

    <listitem>

    <para>Desktop Environments</para>

    <itemizedlist>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            GNOME Desktop Environment

        </para>

        </listitem>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            KDE (K Desktop Environment)

        </para>

        </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>

    </listitem>

    <listitem>

    <para>Applications</para>

    <itemizedlist>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            Authoring and Publishing

        </para>

        </listitem>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            Editors

        </para>

        </listitem>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            Graphical Internet

        </para>

        </listitem>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            Graphics

        </para>

        </listitem>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            Office/Productivity

        </para>

        </listitem>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            Text-based Internet

        </para>

        </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>

    </listitem>

    <listitem>

    <para>Development</para>

    <itemizedlist>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            Development Libraries

        </para>

        </listitem>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            Development Tools  

        </para>

        </listitem>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            GNOME Software Development

        </para>

        </listitem>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            KDE Software Development

        </para>

        </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>

    </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>

    <para>

        Packages selected in this step provide a base selection of all

        the packages you need in order to have a functional working

        copy of &TCAR;. The only exception for this, is the

        <package>inkscape</package> package and some of its

        dependencies which don't come with &TC;; and need to be

        installed from third party repositories like EPEL and

        RPMForge, as described in the <ulink url="http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories">Repositories</ulink> wiki page.

    </para>

    </sect2>

</sect1>