In actual customer environments, preinstallation planning would involve
a lot more than simply checking system requirements.
Most of the effort would be directed at determining which groups act
as authoritative sources for all the attributes in the MetaView.
Preinstallation planning is covered in much more detail in the
Meta-Directory Implementation and Configuration lecture-based course.
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If your system is using Service Pack 5 you'll have to reinstall Windows NT.
There is no easy way to "downgrade" from Service pack 5 to Service Pack 4.
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The installation procedures in this module are for Windows NT v4 only.
Meta-Directory 1.0 isn't supported on Solaris, but version 4 is.
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Step 1: Verify minimum platform requirements
Before you install a demo version of Meta-Directory 1.0 on your system,
make sure it meets these minimum requirements:
- Your system must be running Windows NT v4
- You must have at least 128 MB of RAM.
Obviously, the more RAM you have the better.
- You'll need at least a Pentium 2 processor or the equivalent
If your system doesn't meet these requirements, you won't be able to install
Meta-Directory 1.0.
You will however, be able to get a preview of the installation process by
stepping through the rest of this module.
Step 2: Check the Service Pack version
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You can check the Service Pack version on your system by selecting the main Windows
Start menu, then Programs, then launch Windows NT Explorer.
Pull down the Help menu and select About Windows NT.
The Disk Administrator window will show you the Service Pack version you're using.
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If your system isn't using Service Pack 4, you won't be able to install
Meta-Directory 1.0.
Step 3: Check available disk space
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You can check for free disk space by selecting the main Windows
Start menu, then Programs, then Administrative Tools, then
Disk Administrator.
This window will show you the amount of free disk space and the format type
(FAT or NTFS).
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Figure 4.2
You'll need about 300 MB free on an NTFS drive in order to install
Meta-Directory 1.0, Directory Server 4.11, and Perl 5.
If you don't have enough free disk space, you won't be able to perform the
procedures in this module or the next.
If you have enough free disk space but the space is on a FAT-formatted drive,
you can convert that dirve to NTFS in the next step.
Step 4: (Optional) Convert a FAT drive To NTFS
If necessary, you can convert a FAT drive to NTFS by opening a Command Prompt
window and running this command:
convert D: /FS:NTFS .
In this example, drive D is being converted from FAT to NTFS.
Summary
In this section we made sure our system is running Windows NT v4 with
Service Pack 4.
We also verified that we had enough disk space on a NTFS-formatted drive
to install the Meta-Directory software.
This may have required us to convert a FAT drive to NTFS.
In the next section we'll download all the
software we need to demonstrate iMD onto the NTFS drive.
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