[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen installation problems

[Deb Bergeron]

Jason, Dan, et al,

Could we work on developing documentation for the install and create a 
CD as part of the documentation project?  It seems this is a HUGE issue 
or am I simply misguided here?

Thoughts?

Deb

rmcdaniel at indata.us wrote:
> I know that there has been talk of this before, but as soon (IF) as 
> Evergreen is able to run on a live CD with install option, adoption 
> will take off...  This will certainly help to address concerns over 
> using an unfamiliar OS.
>
> Ron
> rmcdaniel at indata.us
>
>     -------- Original Message --------
>     Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen installation problems
>     From: "John Fink" <john.fink at gmail.com>
>     Date: Thu, February 14, 2008 10:28 am
>     To: open-ils-dev at list.georgialibraries.org
>
>     I've used Debian 4.0r2 install discs for all my EG installs.  I
>     think it's a bit out of date, but apt-get solves that nicely.
>
>     You can get Debian CD images from here: http://www.debian.org/CD/
>
>     jf
>
>     On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:20 AM, <rmcdaniel at indata.us
>     <mailto:rmcdaniel at indata.us>> wrote:
>
>         John,
>
>         Which version of Debian do you recommend???
>
>         Ron
>         rmcdaniel at indata.us <mailto:rmcdaniel at indata.us>
>
>         -------- Original Message --------
>         Subject : Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen installation problems
>         From: John Schmidt <jas at xmission.com <mailto:jas at xmission.com>>
>         Date: Thu, February 14, 2008 9:44 am
>         To: open-ils-dev at list.georgialibraries.org
>         <mailto:open-ils-dev at list.georgialibraries.org>
>
>         On Thursday 14 February 2008, Keith Kelley wrote:
>         > I'm using Redhat's Fedora Core, because we use Redhat
>         Enterpise for
>         > production servers. I don't really relish the idea of
>         starting over
>         > with an operating system I wouldn't use in production.
>         >
>
>         Keith,
>
>         I would recommend that you use Debian for right now just to
>         get your
>         feet wet
>         and avoid the pain of trying to get all of the dependencies
>         resolved
>         yourself. My script pulls in all of the dependencies you need plus
>         massages
>         all of the config files to get a basic Evergreen install working.
>
>         The evergreen install has a bunch of dependencies that need to be
>         configured
>         appropriately. If anything is not done correctly, you will get
>         errors in
>
>         non-obvious places.
>
>         If you would be willing to set up a test Debian box, I would
>         be more
>         than
>         happy to work with you to get it installed. It is my
>         experience that it
>         takes about 15-20 minutes using my scripts provided you have a
>         bit of
>         experience with system administration.
>
>         I would be more than happy to call you and talk through any
>         issues. I do
>         not
>         run RedHat. I left the RPM world long ago when I had numerous
>         architectures
>         (x86, m68K, ppc,mips) that I maintained and needed a
>         consistent OS.
>         Debian
>         was the only one to provide that. The thing that I like about
>         Debian is
>         the
>         number of packages that are provided. I compile well over half
>         a million
>
>         lines of c++ code every day for my day job and the last thing
>         I want to
>         do is
>         to futz around compiling a bunch of packages to do an install.
>         Debian
>         makes
>         it easy to install evergreen by satisfying the vast majority of
>         dependencies.
>
>         You can contact me offline if you would like.
>
>         John Schmidt
>         jas at xmission.com <mailto:jas at xmission.com>
>
>
>
>
>
>     -- 
>     http://libgrunt.blogspot.com -- library culture and technology. 
>

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