What Do You Need?

In order to work through the exercises in this book, you need a test environment in which you can experiment without inflicting harm on any production machines. For the NLD client, the requirements for a standard installation are

• Pentium II+ 266MHz or any AMD64 or Intel EM64T processor

• 128MB RAM

• 800MB free hard drive space

• 800x600 or higher resolution

NOTE

For some of the exercises, you will also need a printer and access to another NLD 9 workstation.

Though the preceding numbers are the minimum, the following requirements are more realistic for an environment you can be comfortable working within:

• Pentium 3 1GHz processor

• 512MB RAM

• 20GB free hard drive space

• 1024x768 or higher resolution

• 100Mb/sec Ethernet card

For the SLES machine, you need a machine that will meet the standard requirements of SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9, a client workstation (the NLD one works best), and an Internet connection. The requirements given for a comfortable NLD environment will work well:

• Pentium 3 1GHz processor

• 512MB RAM

• 20GB free hard drive space

• 1024x768 or higher resolution

• 100Mb/sec Ethernet card