c30068 Update `Repository/Workstation/install.docbook'.

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At the moment of chosing which operating system to install in
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your workstation, consider that &TCAR; is completly built on
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&TCD; and realies on it to achieve most automation tasks. At
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- time of this writing the major release 5 update 5 of &TCD; was
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- used as platform to support all work line development inside
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- &TCAR;. To get the best of &TCAR;, it is necessary that you
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- too, use the same operating system we did to develop it.
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+ time of this writing &TCD; release 5.5 was used as platform to
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+ support all development work lines inside &TCAR; working copy.
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+ So, in order to get a reproducable environemtn, it is
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+ convenient that you, too, use the same version of the
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+ operating system that we did.
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</para>
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<para>
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&TCM;.
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</para>
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+ <sect2 id="repo-ws-install-burning">
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+ <title>Burning The Installation Media</title>
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<para>
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Assuming you downloaded the DVD ISO of &TCD;, you can burn it
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using the <application>K3B</application> application and, this
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boot the computer from it, and follow the installer
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intructions till it completes all the steps. That simple.
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</para>
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+ </sect2>
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- <sect2 id="repo-ws-partition">
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+ <sect2 id="repo-ws-install-partition">
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<title>Partition Information</title>
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<para>
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The partition information you set in your workstation is very
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specific to your personal needs and the technical
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- characteristics of your machine. This information will also
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- set the bases of all deployment you reach to achieve inside
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- the workstation. A well partitioned workstation is crucial to
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- garantee a well distribution of space inside the worstation.
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- In order to provide an idea of this installation step, I'll
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- describe the specific partitioning of the machine I use to
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- develop &TCAR; right now. Remember that your needs might be
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- differents and so the partition layout you should implement.
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+ characteristics of your machine. The partitioning information
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+ set the bases of all deployment you pretend to achieve inside
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+ the workstation. Generally, the default partitioning schema
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+ suggested by &TCD; installer is fine for most avarage
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+ workstations, but if you need to customize it, a complete
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+ description about how to do it can be found in the
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+ <citetitle>Deployment Guide</citetitle> provided by the
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+ <package>Deployment_Guide-en-US</package> package.
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- <para>
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- The machine of our example is isolated from Internet or any
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- other network. It has two hard drives of 256GB each, 2GB of
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- RAM and a 2.80GHz Core 2 Duo processor. The main goal of this
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- machine is producing &TCAR;. To represent the real production
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- environment of &TCAR;, this machine was conceived to have two
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- roles, one as server &mdash;to store the source repository of
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- &TCAR;&mdash; and one as client &mdash;to store a working copy
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- of the source repository&mdash;. From both hard drives
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- available, one is used as primary
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- (<filename>/dev/sda</filename>) and the other one as secondary
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- (<filename>/dev/sdb</filename>) where the secondary is used
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- only to backup the information produced in the primary by mean
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- of backup scripts.
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- </para>
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- <para>
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- The partition distribution of this machine implements the
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- default partinioning schema provided by &TCD; in the primary
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- hard drive to store partitions needed by the operating system
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- (e.g., <filename class="directory">/</filename>, <filename
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- class="directory">/boot</filename> and swap partition) where
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- the working copy is placed in. The second hard drive is an
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- entire partition mounted in <filename
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- class="directory">/mnt/backups</filename> automatically on
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- boot which only purpose is to duplicate the information
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- produced in the workplace.
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- <screen>
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- Filesystem Type Size Mounted on
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- /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 ext3 239G /
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- /dev/sda1 ext3 104M /boot
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- tmpfs tmpfs 1.1G /dev/shm
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- /dev/sdb ext3 247G /mnt/backups
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- </screen>
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- The detailed steps followed to prepare the partinioning layout
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- described above are described in the <citetitle>Deployment
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- Guide</citetitle> provided by
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- <package>Deployment_Guide-en-US-5.2-11.el5.centos</package>
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- package.
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+ The amount of space required to store a clean working copy of
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+ &TCAR; is about 1GB. Later, when you start rendering content,
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+ more space will be required. There is no specific space we can
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+ suggest since the final amount of space required depends on
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+ the amount of content you produce after downloading a clean
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+ working copy; just be sure to leave enough space to work
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+ (e.g., 10GB seems to be a good number) whatever your partition
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+ information be.
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- <sect2 id="repo-ws-packages">
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<title>Packages Selection</title>
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the packages you need in order to have a functional working
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copy of &TCAR;. The only exception for this, is the
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<package>inkscape</package> package and some of its
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- dependencies which doesn't come with &TCD; and need to be
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- installed from third party repositroies like EPEL and
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- RPMForge. The configuration of third party repository is done
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+ dependencies which don't come with &TCD; and need to be
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+ installed from third party repositories like EPEL and
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+ RPMForge, as described in the <ulink url="http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories">Repositories</ulink> wiki page.
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- later, once the workstation has been installed; just as
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- described in the <ulink
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- url="http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories">Repositories</ulink>
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- page.
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