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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
<chapter id="sys-req-prerequisites">
  <title>System Requirements and Prerequisites</title>

  <para>Using Enea NFV Access or compiling applications requires certain
  packages to be installed on your NFV Access development host.</para>

  <section id="enea-nfv-access-sysreq">
    <title>System Requirements</title>

    <para>The host requirements listed below are extensive to allow getting
    Enea NFV Access to be booted on target machines and for building
    applications.</para>

    <informaltable>
      <tgroup cols="2">
        <colspec align="left" colname="1" colwidth="1*" />

        <colspec align="left" colname="2" colwidth="3*" />

        <spanspec nameend="2" namest="1" spanname="onetwo" />

        <tbody>
          <row>
            <entry spanname="onetwo"><emphasis role="bold"> Build Host
            Requirements<indexterm>
                <primary>system requirements</primary>
              </indexterm></emphasis></entry>
          </row>

          <row>
            <entry>Linux distribution</entry>

            <entry>The downloaded product can installed on the target machine
            using a Linux host. For information about the supported hosts and
            targets, see <xref
            linkend="relinfo-supported-host-environment" />.</entry>
          </row>

          <row>
            <entry>Packages</entry>

            <entry>Depending on the Linux distribution and version of the
            host, some packages may be required. See details on what packages
            are needed and how to install, in the following sections.</entry>
          </row>

          <row>
            <entry>Disk space</entry>

            <entry>Your system should have at least 50 GB of free disk space
            for installing the SDK or cross-compiling applications.</entry>
          </row>

          <row>
            <entry>Recommended RAM</entry>

            <entry>Your system must have at least 4 GB available RAM.</entry>
          </row>
        </tbody>
      </tgroup>
    </informaltable>
  </section>

  <section id="ensure-bash">
    <title>System Shell Configuration</title>

    <para>Before installing Enea NFV Access, ensure that bash is the default
    shell.</para>

    <para>If your system runs Ubuntu, you can use ls -l to ensure
    <filename>/usr/bin</filename> is a symbolic link to bash. In case the link
    points to dash, which is default in some Ubuntu versions, change it to
    bash by running <emphasis role="bold">sudo dpkg-reconfigure
    dash</emphasis> and answer <emphasis role="bold">No</emphasis> to the
    question "Use dash as the default system shell (/bin/sh)?":</para>

    <programlisting># ls -l /bin/sh
	lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2012-03-02 11:53 /bin/sh -&gt; bash</programlisting>
  </section>

  <section id="preq-packages">
    <title>Prerequisite Packages</title>

    <para>First ensure the system is up-to-date, then for the supported
    distribution(s), you need the following packages:<remark>INFO: The
    programlisting below is a parameters in eltf_params_updated.xml with ID:
    "eltf-prereq-apt-get-command-host". If multiple hosts are supported, store
    the commands for each host in the same programlisting with empty lines
    between each - the comment with the FULL HOST name and version is
    essential.</remark></para>

    <xi:include href="eltf_params_updated.xml"
                xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
                xpointer="element(eltf-prereq-apt-get-commands-host/1)" />
  </section>

  <section id="dns-server">
    <title>Installing and Configuring the DNS server</title>

    <para>CONTENT NEEDED</para>
  </section>
</chapter>