For the tasks and exercises described in this guide, you need the following:
A server-class computer with the following:
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Component |
Minimum |
Recommended |
|---|---|---|
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Processor |
Pentium* II or AMD* K7 450 MHz |
Pentium III, Pentium III Xeon*, Pentium 4, Intel* Xeon 700 MHz, AMD K8 CPUs (Athlon64 and Opteron*), Intel EM64T or higher processor |
|
RAM |
1 GB |
2 GB |
|
Display adapter |
Super VGA |
VESA 1.2-compliant, high resolution |
|
Display monitor |
Compatible with adapter |
|
|
CD/DVD drive |
Support for the ElTorito specification |
|
|
Hard drive (All data will be erased) |
40 GB |
|
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Network card |
Ethernet 100 Mbps |
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IP address |
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Mouse |
Not required |
USB or PS/2* |
A network printer with an assigned static IP address and a connection to your getting-started lab network.
A Windows workstation with
One of the following platforms installed:
Windows XP
Windows 7
An Ethernet 100 Mbps adapter
An IP address on the same subnet as the server
Mozilla* Firefox* browser installed. (This is optional, but Firefox is the assumed browser for most of the instructions in this guide)
A print driver installed on the workstation for the network printer listed above.
(Optional for exploring Novell AFP and iPrint) An Apple* Macintosh* workstation with
Mac OS* 10.4 or later installed
Novell AFP supports earlier versions of Mac OS, but iPrint doesn’t.
An Ethernet adapter
An IP address on the same subnet as the server
A print driver installed on the workstation for the network printer listed above.