WxToFly Installation
This document describes installation of WXTOFLY RASP site and scripts feeding content to http://wxtofly.net website
Hardware
This is recommended minimum setup
- CPU Intel i7
- HDD 100GB min
- 8GB RAM
Current Jiri's installation is running in a Hyper-V virtual machine with:
- 4 virtual CPUs
- 8GB RAM
- 128GB VHD
Jiri's host machine:
- Intel i7 6700k
- SSD 1TB
- HDD 2TB
- 32GB RAM
- NVIDIA GPU
Note: Current version of Hyper-V Integration Services for Linux do not support access to GPU via RemoteFX feature. It might be possible using pass-through PCI setup
OS
Currently the installation scripts support only 64-bit Ubuntu and were tested on Desktop version 14.04 and 16.10 and Server version 16.10. Adding support for other distributions should be possible.
Installation instructions
- Select a version of Ubuntu and download the setup ISO from https://www.ubuntu.com/download. Direct links to images used for testing:
- Install the OS on a physical or virtual machine
- After installation, login using credentials created during OS install. This must be the administrator user.
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Decide on BASEDIR directory name for the RASP site installation and create it under the home directory, eg. myrasp
mkdir ~/myrasp
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Download installation package from http://wxtofly.net/install/wxtofly.tgz and save it in the BASEDIR directory
curl –o ~/myrasp/wxtofly.tgz http://wxtofly.net/install/wxtofly.tgz
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Change directory to BASEDIR and extract files from instalation package
cd ~/myrasp
tar xvzf wxtofly.tgz
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Run installation script providing path to BASEDIR as the only argument
bash INSTALL/install_wxtofly.sh ~/myrasp
- The installation script goes through multiple steps. Installation of dependent packages requires running as administrator. When prompted enter the password of the currently logged on user.
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When the installation completes successfully the script will proceeds to setting up the site:
- CRON – if selected this will create a cron job to run the RASP site.
- Uploading to wxtofly.net - if selected the script will asks for ftp access credentials and configures the site to upload run output plots to the website.
See WxToFly guide document for details about the site operation
References