diff --git a/Manuals/Tcar-ug/Repository/Workstation/install.docbook b/Manuals/Tcar-ug/Repository/Workstation/install.docbook index fdb8f4a..ba0e757 100644 --- a/Manuals/Tcar-ug/Repository/Workstation/install.docbook +++ b/Manuals/Tcar-ug/Repository/Workstation/install.docbook @@ -13,10 +13,11 @@ 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. + time of this writing &TCD; 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. @@ -29,6 +30,9 @@ &TCM;. + + + Burning The Installation Media Assuming you downloaded the DVD ISO of &TCD;, you can burn it using the K3B application and, this @@ -48,71 +52,38 @@ boot the computer from it, and follow the installer intructions till it completes all the steps. That simple. + - + Partition Information - 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. + 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 &TCD; 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 + Deployment Guide provided by the + Deployment_Guide-en-US package. - -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 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. - + Packages Selection @@ -207,13 +178,9 @@ tmpfs tmpfs 1.1G /dev/shm 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. + dependencies which don't come with &TCD; and need to be + installed from third party repositories like EPEL and + RPMForge, as described in the Repositories wiki page.