Sitwon/Byzantium — Issue #7: Documentation of Byzantium installation process.
Author: virtadpt
Created: 2011-10-14 12:43:18+00:00
State: open

Right now Byzantium can only be manually installed in a running instance of Porteus Linux. The documentation of the process is partial at best (http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Process_for_manually_installing_Byzantium. (NOTE: There needs to be a period at the end of that URL!) and prone to problems involving forgetting to copy customized and version controlled config files into place. The manual installation process is what we'll be basing the distro build process on, so we need to finish fleshing out that wiki page. I think this needs to be a group effort to get as much coverage of the installation process as we can.

Start with a basic install of Porteus Linux (on a USB key is fine, a virtual machine is better) and check out the repository. Then start following the instructions on the wiki page to install packages and copy configuration files and scripts into place. In many of the sub-directories pertaining to Porteus packages, config files can be found in subdirectories (Byzantium/porteus/) that match where they should go in the live system (so, files in Byzantium/porteus/apache/etc/httpd should be copied into /etc/httpd).

There's going to be a significant amount of pain here, so the faster we get it over and done with the faster we can automate the process with Ben and Chris' build-o-matic.