Hardware and software requirements for the source server

This topic lists the hardware and software requirements for the Linux Scripting Toolkit source server.

Hardware requirements

To act as a source server, Linux Scripting Toolkit requires a PC-compatible computer with the following attributes:
  • 512 MB of memory
  • Sufficient disk space to store operating system files, applications, updates, and configuration files

Linux Scripting Toolkit also requires that the target server for the deployment have at least 1 GB of memory.

Software requirements

Linux Scripting Toolkit source server requires the following software:
  • One of the following operating systems:
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1/SP2/SP3/SP4
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 or later
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 U2 or higher
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 U1 or later
  • Media creation software that copies the created ISO images to disc
  • Application software:
    • Net File Share
    • Firefox 2.00.14 or higher
  • Linux software packages:
    • Python 2.4.2 or higher
    • Python-xml 2.4.2 or higher (for SUSE Linux)
    • NFS-utils 1.0 or higher