Author: esr Date: 2008-12-16 06:56:44 +0000 (Tue, 16 Dec 2008) New Revision: 24372
Modified: trunk/website/pages/en/download.php trunk/website/pages/en/install.php Log: Document activation procedure for mirrored installations. Modified: trunk/website/pages/en/download.php =================================================================== --- trunk/website/pages/en/download.php 2008-12-16 06:25:18 UTC (rev 24371) +++ trunk/website/pages/en/download.php 2008-12-16 06:56:44 UTC (rev 24372) @@ -107,8 +107,15 @@ //--></script> <h3>Offline installation</h3> -Some people might encounter difficulties connecting to our server because of censorship. We do have an offline version of the installer available : <a href="http://downloads.freenetproject.org/alpha/installer/new_installer_offline.jar";>Freenet 0.7 offline installer</a>. You shouldn't use it unless you have to (it's bigger to download and might not be as up to date as the online one). +<p>Some people might encounter difficulties connecting to our server because of censorship. We do have an offline version of the installer available : <a href="http://downloads.freenetproject.org/alpha/installer/new_installer_offline.jar";>Freenet 0.7 offline installer</a>. You shouldn't use it unless you have to (it's bigger to download and might not be as up to date as the online one).</p> +<div id="unix"> +<h3>Mirrored installation</h3> +<p>If you have a working Freenet installation directory that you have mirrored +from one Unix machine to another (e.g. via rsync or unison), enabling the mirrorred installation is not difficult. Nothing in a Freenet installation cares about its host's IP address; it can't, or Freenet would fail on machines that get IP addressss from a DHCP pool</p> +<p>All you actually need to do is tell the system you've mirrored to that it should start the Freenet proxy daemon for you on boot. Do <tt>crontab -l</tt> on the source machine, find the line that is tagged "FREENET AUTOSTART" and add that to your crontab on the mirrored machine.</p> +</div> + <h3>So it's running, what do I do?</h3> <p>When the installer closes, it should open a browser window pointing to Modified: trunk/website/pages/en/install.php =================================================================== --- trunk/website/pages/en/install.php 2008-12-16 06:25:18 UTC (rev 24371) +++ trunk/website/pages/en/install.php 2008-12-16 06:56:44 UTC (rev 24372) @@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ <ul> <li>Graphical install</li> <li>Headless install</li> +<li>Enabling a mirror copy of a Freenet installation</li> </ul> -<p>If you want to install the Freenet software on a computer which lacks a GUI, see the <a href="/download.html#unix">Headless install</a> instructions. -Otherwise, continue reading.</p> +<p>If you want to install the Freenet software on a computer which lacks a GUI, see the <a href="/download.html#unix">Headless install</a> instructions. If you have mirrored a working Freenet installation to a machine without explicitly installing it, see <a href="/download.html#mirrored">Mirrored install</a>. Otherwise, continue reading.</p> <h4>Graphical install</h4> _______________________________________________ cvs mailing list [email protected] http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvs
