If you've followed the article on Byte and read the suggested presentations, looked at the documentation at Globus, and are ready to build an experimental grid, here are the next steps.
First select the base OS you want to build on. Red Hat 7.2 is the suggested by the install presentation by Kurt Meuller. Other OS's are possible, including Linux 2.x, Solaris 8, Irix 5.1, AIX 5.1 and True64.
An alternative I'll be trying is FreeBSD 4.5. This OS has full RH 7.2 API compatibility as an option, as well as optional System V and Unixware APIs. I'll be working with the RH 7.2 API installed. Please note that FreeBSD 4.6 has just been released and includes XWindows 4.2.0, up from 3.6 in FreeBSD 4.5. If you are just starting, get the 4.6 release.
Now go to Globus Download and read the FAQ, release notes and install instructions. Note that the install is available in both binary or source, however certain systems don't build completely from source. If you're just starting, go the binary route.
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To build via the binary bundles, you must first DL and install the package kit. It's under the heading 'Grid Packaging Toolkit' on the download page.
Create a directory such as /usr/globus and setenv GLOBUS_LOCATION=/usr/globus, or wherever you want your globus files to live. Relax, they're not as big as you may think.. The Linux version full server package is a 4.8 MB, the package kit is 1.1 MB.
Once you have the package kit in /usr/globus, then unpack the file. Use "tar xvzf gpt-1.0.tar.gz", then change to gpt-1.0 directory and "./build_gpt".
Next, installing the binary package is not quite obvious. First, download it to /usr/globus. Do Not move the .gz file to sbin/globus-install (as I did :-). The proper way is to use the /usr/globus/sbin/globus-install program on the DL file. It not only helps to read the instructions, it helps even more to understand them.
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