Setup guide

4 Reboot the system.
Prepare the installation media
Check the release announcement to find out on what media the installers are available.
Major releases are distributed on a USB device. To mount a USB device:
■ Attach the device. Log in to the terminal as root. On Red Hat 6, change directory to the USB mount point
at /media/AUTODESK/. On Red Hat 5, continue with the following steps.
■ Use the dmesg command to output something like sdf: sdf1 to list a recent device connected. Or list
the devices attached to your system with the command: fdisk -l | grep "/dev/sd". The device assigned
to the USB device should look similar to /dev/sds or /dev/sde
■ On a fresh Red Hat 5 installation, automount is enabled , but execution from the device is disabled by
default. So you must enable it:
1 unmount the USB drive with eject /<mountpoint> or eject /dev/<device id>.
2 Create a mount point directory for the disk with mkdir /mnt/usbdisk.
3 Mount the device mount -o shortname=winnt /dev/<device>1 /mnt/usbdisk. Or from the GUI
browse to /dev, right-click the USB device, and choose Mount.
Software is sometimes distributed as tar files. To extract from a tar file:
1 In a terminal, as root, use the md5sum command to verifty the checksum matches the md5sum listed
in the checksum file.
2 Extract from the tar archive with tar -xvf filename.tar.
Installing Backburner Manager
Backburner Manager acts as the communications hub for the background processing network.
If you create a background processing network that serves a single Creative Finishing workstation, you can
run Backburner Manager on the workstation itself. Backburner components are installed automatically with
Creative Finishing applications.
If the background processing network serves multiple workstations, it is recommended to run Backburner
Manager on a dedicated machine on your network. Backburner Manager works on Windows, Linux, and
Mac OS X systems.
Refer to the Autodesk Backburner Installation Guide for detailed system requirements and instructions on
installing and configuring Backburner Manager. You can find this document at www.autodesk.com/backburner-
documentation.
Install Burn on render nodes
Install Burn on each dedicated render node. You can install it alongside earlier versions. Installing on Creative
Finishing workstations is not supported.
1 As root, in a terminal, Log in to the render node as root, and open a terminal. Prepare the installation
media (page 31) to access the installer.
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