A brief comment below On 5/12/2011 8:55 AM, Mark H. Wood wrote: > I think I hear a disagreement about who the installation docs are for. > Are they for new users, and people who need more control are on their > own? Or are they for people looking to fit DSpace more neatly into > their operation, while new users are protected by a wizard from having > to know so much? > > Maybe we need two: Installation Guide (just gets you a working > DSpace) and Installation Reference (with all the knobs exposed and > thoroughly discussed). >
I like what Mark W has done below with a "form" to prepare you for installation. We should mock this up somewhere on the Wiki and make it a part of our official docs. I also agree with what others have said around figuring out who our install docs are written for. I like Mark W's suggestion of possibly creating two main ones -- ideally with two different audiences: (1) a Novice User (never touched DSpace before, so more step by step) and (2) a System Admin Reference (as Mark says with all "knobs" exposed & discussed. > Or we need to discuss the choices (and some useful defaults) up > front: > > You will need to know the following before you start: > > o What DBMS you have, or intend to install. PostgreSQL and Oracle > are supported. > > DBMS: ____________________ > > o What you want to name the database that DSpace will use. If you > don't care, use 'dspace'. > > database: ____________________ > > o What DBMS user/role will own the DSpace database. If you don't > care, use 'dspace'. You'll also need the password for this. > > DBMS user: ____________________ > > DBMS password: ____________________ > > o What Servlet container you have, or intend to install. Apache > Tomcat and [X] and [Y] are supported. > > container: ____________________ > > o What user account will run the servlet container. DSpace files > must be owned by this user. If you use your OS' package manager > then it will choose the account and you need to find out what it > chose. If you are installing the container by hand, use anything > you want, such as 'dspace'. > > OS user: ____________________ > > o Where you want to install the working instance of DSpace. [X] and > [Y] are typical. > > DSpace Home: ____________________ > > Have you gathered those data? Let's begin. > > This is just a sketch, not a finished work. I'm sure I left something > out. It looks like a lot. But you have a lot of freedom and that > requires some decisions. Notice that a known usable answer is given > for every one of them. Fill in the blanks and you have your cheat > sheet ready when you get to steps that want local information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
