Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux® Workstations

Installation workflows
This guide covers the following:
■ Flame Premium
■ Flame
■ Smoke for Linux
■ Lustre
■ Inferno
■ Flint
■ Backdraft
User prerequisties for installation
■ Knowledge Linux, preferably Red Hat.
■ Familiarity with computer hardware, storage and networking in a professional video/film production environment.
■ Root access to your system. The default root account password on an Autodesk workstation is password.
Software upgrade only
To upgrade the software without updating the hardware or OS:
1 Install the DKU and the AJA OEM-2K firmware (page 25)
2 Upgrade projects to the current version (page 41) Unnecessary if you are upgrading to a service pack of the same
application version or to a service pack of the same extension.
3 License your software. If you are not on subscription use Node-locked licensing (page 79). On subscription you can
use node-locked or Network licensing (page 80). Unnecessary if upgrading to a service pack of the same software
version or to a service pack of the same extension.
Install from scratch or upgrade Linux
To reinstall or upgrade the operating system and/or change your hardware or storage setup:
1 If you are installing your hardware make the following connections:
■ Peripherals such as mouse, keyboard, pen tablet, graphics monitor, house network.
■ Autodesk Wire network.
■ VTR and a broadcast monitor.
■ Audio hardware for your workstation.
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