The Cyclone NewsRouter requires specific software and hardware. Before installing Cyclone, ensure your system meets or exceeds the following requirements:

• Solaris 2.5 (or greater) for Sparc processors OR
  Solaris 2.5 x86 (or greater) for Intel processors

• 64MB of RAM and 256MB of Virtual Memory. More is recommended for large sites.

• 64MB hard disk space for the Cyclone software and history database.

• 1GB of hard disk space (or more) depending on the quality of service you provide to your peers.

1. Choose a machine to run the system. Login as "root" and copy the Cyclone compressed "tar" file to that system.

2. As "root", create a user on the system called "news" using the UNIX useradd(1M) command.

3. Become the "news" user and unpack the compressed Cyclone "tar" file into a local directory on your machine using the UNIX zcat(1) and tar(1) programs.

4. The system is now installed and ready for initial configuration. Read the Configuration Guide for assistance.

• Install ALL vendor recommended patches! Recent vendor supplied fixes can greatly increase the performance and reliability of TCP/IP applications (like Cyclone). For Solaris: ftp://sunsolve1.sun.com/pub/patches/patches.html

• Multiple Disk Drives. To achieve maximum performance, we strongly recommend installing Cyclone on a machine with multiple disk drives. It is easy to configure Cyclone to evenly spread system load across whatever disk hardware you have available.

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