Setup guide

Installation workflows

This guide covers the following:

■ Flame Premium

■ Flame

■ Smoke for Linux

■ Lustre

■ Inferno

■ Flint

■ Backdraft

User prerequisties for installation

■ Knowledge of 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 29)

2 Install Flame PremiumInstall Flame Premium (page 39)

3 Upgrade projects to the current version (page 45) Unnecessary if you are upgrading to a service pack of the same

application version or to a service pack of the same extension.

4 License your software. If you are not on subscription use Node-locked licensing (page 85). On subscription you can

use node-locked or Network licensing (page 86). 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.