Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of Documentation/Community/HowTo/ThePerfectEboxSetup/Install

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05/19/09 15:51:08 (4 years ago)

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jsalamero@… (IP: 87.198.40.237)

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Documentation/Community/HowTo/ThePerfectEboxSetup/Install

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 The first screen that appears let us to choose the installer language. Just press ''enter'' to select English or move with the arrows to select the desired language.
 
-[[Image(ebox_install_01.png)]]
+[[Image(ebox_install_01.png, 300)]]
 
 On the main screen we can do 5 different actions:
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   * Boot from first hard disk (we will use this option to boot the system on a bootloader fatal error)
 
-[[Image(ebox_install_02.png)]]
+[[Image(ebox_install_02.png, 300)]]
 
 Next step is to choose your system language and localization:
 
-[[Image(ebox_install_03.png)]] [[Image(ebox_install_04.png)]]
+[[Image(ebox_install_03.png, 300)]] [[Image(ebox_install_04.png, 300)]]
 
 After that we will have to choose the keyboard layout, the installer can autodetect it or we can select it by hand, we prefer to do it this way:
 
-[[Image(ebox_install_05.png)]] [[Image(ebox_install_06.png)]] [[Image(ebox_install_07.png)]]
+[[Image(ebox_install_05.png, 300)]] [[Image(ebox_install_06.png, 300)]] [[Image(ebox_install_07.png, 300)]]
 
 Then the installer begins to load all the components.
 
-[[Image(ebox_install_08.png)]]
+[[Image(ebox_install_08.png, 300)]]
 
 ==== Network configuration ====
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 And is time for the network configuration. We should select the interface connected to the network which are going to access the server through, usually the internal network, configuration for other interfaces will come later. If we don't have already a DHCP server on our network will ask for the IP address, network mask, gateway and DNS server. Then the installer will ask us for a hostname for the machine.
 
-[[Image(ebox_install_09.png)]] [[Image(ebox_install_10.png)]]
+[[Image(ebox_install_09.png, 300)]] [[Image(ebox_install_10.png, 300)]]
 
 ==== Partitioning ====
 
+#FIXME RAID
+
+Probably this is the most complex step and where you have to make more choices but this is very important for your server future. Our install will be using LVM (Linux Volume Manager) and the partition scheme we recommend would be something like:
+
+|| partition || size || format || mount point || comments ||
+|| 1         || 8GB  || ext3   || /           || system volumen, fixed size ||
+|| 2 LVM     || 1GB  || swap   ||             || virtual memory, dynamic size ||
+|| 3 LVM     || 20G  || XFS    || /var        || general storage for all the modules but file sharing, dynamic size ||
+|| 4 LVM     || 20G  || XFS    || /home       || file sharing storage ||
+|| 5 LVM     || 20G  || XFS    || /var/vmail  || mailboxes storage ||
+||           ||      ||        ||             || free space on LVM for snapshots ||
+
+Having a dedicated volume for /home and /var/vmail will depend on your needs but we stronly suggest it if you are going to use eBox as a file sharing server or as a mail server. The other services (Users and Groups databases, Certification Authority, eGroupware, Asterisk voicemail, etc.) and log files and databases are stored in /var so you should choose the partition size for the /var volume acording to your number of users and their needs.
+
+We shouldn't forget to leave some free space on the LVM volume in order to create the snapshots used for safe upgrades. This size usually should be arround 2G but probably you will need more if you want to make snapshots on data partitions volumes, in that case 2G+15% of your other volumes size should be ok.
+
+That's why we will choose ''Manual'' partitioning:
+
+[[Image(ebox_install_11.png, 300)]]
+
+Will go over the ''FREE SPACE'' with the rows and will press ''Enter'' to create a new partition there:
+
+[[Image(ebox_install_12.png, 300)]]
+
+Next steps will be to configure the size as a primary partition at the beginning of the hard disk, the file system and the mount point are selected by default:
+
+[[Image(ebox_install_13.png, 300)]] [[Image(ebox_install_14.png, 300)]] [[Image(ebox_install_15.png, 300)]] [[Image(ebox_install_16.png, 300)]] [[Image(ebox_install_17.png, 300)]]
+
+And this is the state after creating the system partition:
+
+[[Image(ebox_install_18.png, 300)]]
+