[AG-TECH] RE: New install guide

[Derek Piper]

Jason Bell wrote:
> Colleagues
> 
> As a follow up to my initial email, I have been thinking about the
> following questions and would like some opinions on what people think.
> 
> *	Should the install guide include instructions on installing
> AccessGrid-Compat-2.x???
> 
> 	Pro's - Allows users to connect to 2.x sessions and be
> compatible with all of the shared app's for other 2.x users.
> 
> 	Con's - By providing instructions to install 2.x, it won't force
> other nodes to upgrade to AG 3.0.

Since 3.0 isn't properly released yet, is that really a problem? Best to 
give new users the software that's tried and tested. We're not Microsoft 
after all ;)

> *	Would people like screen shots on the installation of Fedora
> Core 5, or is straight text suffice???  See
> http://agcentral.org/help/tutorial/ag2.4-install-fc4/installfc4 for an
> example
> 
> If you have any other ideas, I would be happy to hear them.  
> 
> I have already had a suggestion to include a security section.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jason.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Bell 
> Sent: Friday, 24 March 2006 8:53 AM
> To: 'ag-tech'; 'accessgrid-l at lists.grangenet.net'
> Subject: New install guide
> 
> Dear Colleagues
> 
> Over the next few weeks, I will be developing some documentation on
> installing AG3 on Fedora Core 5.
> 
> This documentation is going to be similar to the "AG2.4 Installation
> Guide for RedHat Fedora Core 4"
> (http://agcentral.org/help/tutorial/ag2.4-install-fc4).  The reason for
> sending this email is to ask if there is anything that you would like to
> see in this new document, that you may have found missing in the
> previous document???
> 
> Alternatively, if you found the document to be pretty good as it was,
> than that type of information is also useful to know as well.
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> Jason.
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> 
> Jason Bell, B.I.T.
> B. Info. Tech. (Honours) Student
> 
> Network Engineer
> Information Technology Division
> Central Queensland University
> 
> High Performance Computing Support Officer
> Central Queensland University
> 
> Research Assistant to the Nonlinear
> Intelligent Systems Research Group 
> Faculty of Informatics & Communication
> Central Queensland University
> 
> E-mail : j.bell at cqu.edu.au
> Phone : 07 4930 9229
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> 
> Patience is a virtue.
> 
> But if I wanted Patience,
> I would have become a Doctor.
> 
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> 
> 

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Derek Piper - dcpiper at indiana.edu - (812) 856 0111
IRI 323, School of Informatics
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana