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ShaoLin Aptus 2.0 Installation and Operations Guide

Copyright © 2003 by ShaoLin Microsystems Limited

2003-07-04

Revision History
Revision 0.12003-04-15Revised by: David Chow
Updated for ShaoLin Aptus 2.0.7
Revision 0.22003-07-04Revised by: David Chow
Updated for ShaoLin Aptus 2.0.11
Table of Contents
ShaoLin Aptus End-User License Agreement
1. Server License For ShaoLin Aptus
2. Client CPU License For ShaoLin Aptus
Preface
I. Getting started
1. Introduction
1.1. Copyright
1.2. Disclaimer
1.3. Feedbacks and Comments
1.4. Product Registration
1.5. Purchase Information
1.6. Getting Support
1.7. Reader Prerequisites
1.8. Changes in this document
2. Installation Overview
2.1. Server Hardware Requirements
2.2. Client hardware requirement
2.3. Network Equipment
2.4. Software Requirements
2.5. Aptus Components
3. Planning your system and network
3.1. Migration issues
3.2. Hardware selection, performance and reliability factors
II. Installation and configurations
4. Aptus Installation
4.1. Overview
4.2. Start the Aptus installer from CD-ROM
4.3. Download version installation
4.4. Starting the installer
4.5. Check for Linux distribution support
4.6. Check for required packages
4.7. Software installation
4.8. Finishing installation
5. Quick setup with Aptus Configurator
5.1. Notes to CogoFS users
5.2. Connecting to Webmin interface
5.3. License file checking and registration
5.4. Basic system setup
5.5. Binding network adapter to Aptus
5.6. Create your first Aptus Group
5.7. Connecting a client to the server
5.8. Client startup
6. Create client boot disks
6.1. Running the boot floppy disk creation program
6.2. Create boot disk manually
7. Tuning Aptus
7.1. Server considerations
7.2. Multiple server setups
7.3. Network security
III. Administration and operations
8. Software installations and upgrades
8.1. Software installation
8.2. Software upgrades
9. Integration with existing systems
9.1. Existing NIS servers
9.2. Existing DHCP servers
9.3. Existing Linux/Unix file servers
9.4. Windows NT file servers
9.5. LDAP authentication
10. Fast and large scale deployment, management
10.1. One to one host duplication
10.2. Backup and restore host profile
10.3. Large volume host creation
10.4. Default host profile for all new clients
11. Uninstalling Aptus
IV. Miscallaneous
12. Tips on the Linux environment
12.1. Desktop environment
12.2. Mailing systems
12.3. File systems
12.4. Controlling User Access to applications
13. Troubleshooting
13.1. General Instructions
13.2. Frequently Asked Questions
A. Technical Reference
A.1. Run-time configurations
A.2. Union File System Reference
A.2.1. Mount time options
A.2.2. The .unionfs file
A.3. Union Network File System Reference
A.3.1. Mount time options
A.4. Group fstab
Glossary
List of Examples
12-1. Convert existing ext2 file system to ext3
A-1. Example Unionfs Mount
A-2. .unionfs options
A-3. .unionfs exclude
A-4. Example Unionnfs Mount
A-5. Unionnfs copy-on-write
A-6. Group fstab
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