Installation or upgrade workflow

You can either set up a new system from nothing, or upgrade an existing one. Nodes purchased from Autodesk ship with the correct distribution Linux installed and configured. You must (re)install Linux if: your Linux version is too old. You had to replace the system disk. If you must replace the hard disk of your license server system, you need to obtain a new license. Contact Customer Support for assistance.

Installation workflow

1. Check you meet the System requirements. If doing a fresh install or your Linux is outdated, Install Linux.
2. Install and configure Burn.
3. License your software.
4. Run the software.

Upgrade workflow

1. Check you meet the System requirements.
2. Install the DKU.
3. Install and configure Burn.
4. Upgrade the Creative Finishing workstations to the same version as the version of Burn you are about to install. Each version of Burn is compatible with only one version of Autodesk Creative Finishing applications. See the Creative Finishing Installation and Configuration Guide or the Autodesk Smoke for Mac OS X Installation and Licensing Guide for information on upgrading the applications.
5. Install the Burn software on each node.
6. Run the software.

Follow this workflow for a fresh install or when you need to reinstall or upgrade the OS.

1. Check you meet the System requirements. See your hardware vendor documentation for information on configuring the hardware and connecting the node to your network.
2. Determine the distribution and version of Linux required for your hardware and for the current version of Burn. See the table in Install Linux. If the required Linux distribution for your hardware is CentOS, download the CentOS CD or DVD image from www.centos.org.
3. Add the Autodesk kickstart file to the DVD or CD1 of your CentOS distribution. See Prepare the CentOS disc. This step is not necessary if you are installing the Autodesk distribution of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on a node purchased from Autodesk.
4. Install the required distribution of Linux. See Install Linux.
5. Perform the tasks in Configure Linux.
6. Install the required version of the Discreet Kernel Utility (DKU) on each node. Refer to the Release Notes for the required version and NO LABEL for installation instructions.
7. Upgrade the Backburner Manager system on your background processing network to the current version. See Installing Backburner Manager.
8. Upgrade the Creative Finishing workstations to the same version as the version of Burn you are about to install on the nodes. Each version of Burn is compatible with only one version of Autodesk Creative Finishing applications. See the Creative Finishing Installation and Configuration Guide or the Autodesk Smoke for Mac OS X Installation and Configuration Guide for information on upgrading the applications.
9. Install the Burn software on each node. Configure each node to connect to Backburner Manager. See Connect the node to Backburner Manager.
10. Optional: Disable local Stone and Wire I/O on each node to improve performance. See Disable local Stone and Wire IO on a node.
11. Optional: Group Burn nodes into groups to manage them more efficiently. See www.autodesk.com/backburner-documentation for instructions on using Backburner Web Monitor to create node groups.
12. License your software. Re-licensing is not necessary if you are upgrading to a service pack of the same software version or to a service pack of the same extension.
13. Run the software.