Setup guide

■ Connect all peripherals (mouse, keyboard, Wacom
®
pen tablet,
graphics monitor, house network) to the proper ports on the
workstation.
■ Connect your workstation to the Autodesk Wire
®
network, using
either Gig-E or InfiniBand
®
.
■ Connect a VTR and a broadcast monitor to your workstation.
■ Connect and configure the audio hardware for your workstation.
■ Connect your storage arrays to the workstation, but DO NOT power
them on before having installed Linux, to prevent the Linux installer
from attempting to format the arrays and use them as system drives.
4 If necessary, update and configure the BIOS of your workstation. See
Configuring your System BIOS (page 28).
NOTE The BIOS settings must be properly configured before installing
Linux.
5 Install the required distribution of Linux. See Linux Installation Workflow
(page 34).
6 Perform the tasks in Linux Post-Installation Tasks (page 36) to configure
your operating system.
7 Install the required version of the Discreet Kernel Utility (DKU). Refer
to the latest Release Notes for the required version and Installing the DKU
(page 44) for installation instructions.
8 Update the AJA card firmware on your workstation if necessary. See
Upgrading the AJA Firmware (page 45).
9 If you are using a new Stone
®
Direct storage array, configure the RAID
volumes, mount the storage, and format it. See Overview (page 46) for
LUN creation instructions and XFS filesystem creation instructions.
10 Install the software.
11 For Visual Effects and Finishing software (not Lustre): Configure the
software to use your media storage filesystem. See Configuring a Direct
Attached Storage or SAN as Media Storage (page 60).
12 For Visual Effects and Finishing software (not Lustre): Configure the
Wire network, background Wire and proxy generation. See Setting up
the Wire Network (page 65).
13 License your software. If you are on subscription, you can choose between
node-locked and network licensing. If you are not on subscription, you
can only use node-locked licensing. See:
■ About Node-Locked Licenses (page 99)
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