Chapter 2. Installation And Operation; System Requirements; Installing Acronis True Image Server For Linux - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 9.1 - FOR LINUX User Manual

Installation and operation
Chapter 2.
2.1

System requirements

Acronis True Image Server for Linux requires the following hard-/software:
•
Pentium or compatible PC
• 256 MB RAM
• CD-RW drive for rescue CD creating
• Mouse (recommended)
• Linux 2.4.18 or later kernel (including 2.6.x kernels).
• SuSE 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, RedHat 9.0, Advanced Server 2.1, Advanced
Server 3.0, Advanced Server 4.0, Fedora Core 1, Fedora Core 2, Fedora Core 3, Fedora
Core 4, Enterprise Server 3.0, Mandrake 8.0, 9.2, 10.0, 10.1, Slackware 10, Debian
stable and unstable (sarge), ASPLinux 9.2, ASPLinux 10, ASPLinux 11, ASPLinux Server
II, ASPLinux Server IV, Virtuozzo 2.6.x, Gentoo, UnitedLinux 1.0, Ubuntu 4.10,
TurboLinux 8.0, TurboLinux 10.0 and some others Linux distributions are supported.
To obtain the up-to-date information about distributions, supported by your copy of Acronis
True Image Server for Linux, see readme.txt file supplied with the program.
2.2

Installing Acronis True Image Server for Linux

To install Acronis True Image Server for Linux:
• Assign to the setup file the attribute Executable
• Run the setup process
•
Follow setup program instructions.
If the setup could not compile the necessary module for your Linux distribution, please refer
to the file HOWTO.INSTALL:
/usr/lib/Acronis/TrueImageServer/HOWTO.INSTALL
You can choose to install, besides Acronis True Image Server for Linux, Rescue Media
Builder tool.
With Rescue Media Builder you can create bootable rescue disks or their ISO images (see
Chapter 10 Creating bootable media
details in
purchased a boxed product that contains a bootable CD. Installing the Rescue Media Builder
will allow you to create bootable media or its ISO image at any time running Rescue Media
Builder on its own.
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Installation and operation
). You might not need this tool if you
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