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. At the moment of chosing which operating system to install in your workstation, consider that &TCAR; is completly built on &TCD; and realies on it to achieve most automation tasks. At time of this writing the major release 5 update 5 of &TCD; was used as platform to support all work line development inside &TCAR;. To get the best of &TCAR;, it is necessary that you too, use the same operating system we did to develop it. To install &TCD; 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 &TCD;, 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. &TCD; ISO files can be downloaded from &TCM;. Assuming you downloaded the DVD ISO of &TCD;, you can burn it using the K3B 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. Once you have the installation media on your hands, the installation process of &TCD; 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. The partition information you set in your workstation is very specific to your personal needs and the technical characteristics of your machine. This information will also set the bases of all deployment you reach to achieve inside the workstation. A well partitioned workstation is crucial to garantee a well distribution of space inside the worstation. In order to provide an idea of this installation step, I'll describe the specific partitioning of the machine I use to develop &TCAR; right now. Remember that your needs might be differents and so the partition layout you should implement. The machine of our example is isolated from Internet or any other network. It has two hard drives of 256GB each, 2GB of RAM and a 2.80GHz Core 2 Duo processor. The main goal of this machine is producing &TCAR;. To represent the real production environment of &TCAR;, this machine was conceived to have two roles, one as server —to store the source repository of &TCAR;— and one as client —to store a working copy of the source repository—. From both hard drives available, one is used as primary (/dev/sda) and the other one as secondary (/dev/sdb) where the secondary is used only to backup the information produced in the primary by mean of backup scripts. The partition distribution of this machine implements the default partinioning schema provided by &TCD; in the primary hard drive to store partitions needed by the operating system (e.g., /, /boot and swap partition) where the working copy is placed in. The second hard drive is an entire partition mounted in /mnt/backups automatically on boot which only purpose is to duplicate the information produced in the workplace. Filesystem Type Size Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 ext3 239G / /dev/sda1 ext3 104M /boot tmpfs tmpfs 1.1G /dev/shm /dev/sdb ext3 247G /mnt/backups The detailed steps followed to prepare the partinioning layout described above are described in the Deployment Guide provided by Deployment_Guide-en-US-5.2-11.el5.centos package. 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: Desktop Environments GNOME Desktop Environment KDE (K Desktop Environment) Applications Authoring and Publishing Editors Graphical Internet Graphics Office/Productivity Text-based Internet Development Development Libraries Development Tools GNOME Software Development KDE Software Development 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 inkscape package and some of its dependencies which doesn't come with &TCD; and need to be installed from third party repositroies like EPEL and RPMForge. The configuration of third party repository is done later, once the workstation has been installed; just as described in the Repositories page.