Part 1. openSUSE 11.2 64 bit Installation and Setup
This tutorial starts out with the assumption that you're already sitting at the openSUSE 11.2 main menu (either VirtualBox or physical server.) If you're not at this point yet, you'll need to reference my previous Pre-Step 1 article.
The installation wizard is quite intuitive, and hides a lot of the complexities that are involved in an OS installation. When you're presented with the 'Welcome' screen, go ahead and browse through the License Agreement, then hit 'Next'.
On the next screen you'll select your timezone and hit 'Next' again.
After selecting the timezone, you'll be able to select the Desktop Environment of your choice. I typically use Gnome (and can vouch that the MicroStrategy GUI components run fine under it), so I'm going to select 'GNOME' and hit 'Next'.
Now we're to the part where the wizard wants to know how to partition our disk. By default, the suggested partitioning has a swap, root, and home partitions. I'm going to resize the /home partition and add an /mstr partition for the MicroStrategy server components. To do this, click on 'Edit Partition Setup'.
The 'Expert Partitioner' dialog pops up, however don't let the name fool you. What we're doing here is extremely easy and straight forward. First, expand the 'Hard Disks' tree so that it looks like below.
Notice how the 'Type' of our /dev/sda device is 'VBOX-HARDDISK'? That's our primary disk, and each partition is listed underneath it. Select the partition with a 'Mount Point' name of /home and click 'Resize'. You'll see the Resize dialog, I'm going to resize /home to 5 GB.
Now we're going to need to create a new partition by pressing 'Add Partition...' at the bottom of the dialog.
The wizard walks you through creating the new partition. Our new partition type is going to be 'Primary'.
You can keep the suggested size, as it's just filling up the rest of the free space created when we resized /home.
On the final partition screen, we can change the mount point of our new partition. By default, the name is /usr. We're going to change this to /mstr and hit 'Finish'.
Once you're back to the 'Expert Partitioner' dialog, go ahead and hit 'Accept'. Your partition summary should look like the following:
On the next screen, you're going to setup the user to log into this VM. Type in the name and password details, and hit 'Next'.
Finally, you'll be presented with a 'Summary' screen showing installation details such as mount points, software packages, system specs, etc. Hit 'Install', and you should see a 'Confirm Installation' screen. Hit 'Install' once more, and the installation will begin.
At this point, it might be a good idea to go find something to do. Depending on the speed of your machine, this could take a while. On my MacBook 2.0ghz c2d, it takes roughly 30 minutes. Once the installation is finished, the VM will automatically reboot. Now, the installer will run through an 'Automatic Configuration' which should only take a few minutes.
Finished!
Well, almost finished. At this point, we're going to go ahead and add all of the packages that we're going to need to deploy our MicroStrategy environment. The actual configuration that we're going to perform to the environment and software components will be addressed additional tutorials.
You should be staring at your openSUSE desktop at this point. We're going to add our software packages with the YaST Software Manager. Click on 'Computer', and select 'Install Software'.
The Software Manager may appear to take a while the first time you load it, however all subsequent loads should be quicker.
You should be staring at the Software Manager now. Make sure the 'Available' tab is selected, and we can start to search for our packages to install.
To add a package to the to-be-installed queue, simply select the package and hit the 'Install' button. The install will not start immediately, allowing you to add all packages then install at once.
Needed Packages:
| Package Name | Description |
| postgresql | Basic Clients and Utilities for PostgreSQL |
| postgresql-server | The programs needed to create and run a PostgreSQL Server |
| libstdc++33-32bit | Standard C++ shared library (32bit) |
| tomcat6 | Apache Servlet/JSP Engine |
| tomcat6-admin-webapps | host-manager and manager web apps for Apache Tomcat |
| apache2 | Apache Web Server |
There will most likely be some dependency packages already selected, that's fine. After you've selected the packages above to be installed, go ahead and hit 'Apply'.
You may have also noticed that there was a 'Changes' section on the Software Manager screen with items in it. That's also fine, these are all post-install changes that the system wants to do. Part of these changes is the 'VirtualBox Guest Additions' package that you'll need installed to properly share folders with your host system, and resize the screen.
Once all packages are installed, perform a quick reboot and we're finished! The next few tutorials will cover setting some OS configurations, setting up the database, and prepping Apache/Tomcat for Web Universal.
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