Install

You should get latest eBox Platform installer based on Ubuntu GNU/Linux installer from the download page. #FIXME i386 vs amd64 download

Checking ISO image integrity

When downloading an ISO image you should check that the file you have downloaded is correct before burning the image into a CD or DVD ROM. We need to download the corresponding MD5 file for the ISO file we have. If the md5sum command doesn't match, download again both files.

% ls
ebox_installer-1.0-1.iso  ebox_installer-1.0-1.iso.md5
% md5sum -c ebox_installer-1.0-1.iso.md5
ebox_installer-1.0-1.iso: OK

Now we are ready to burn the image.

Installing eBox Platform

General settings

You should check that your server is configured to boot up from the CD unit otherwise the installer won't start. Most of the times this is the default behaviour but if it doesn't check your hardware vendor documentation.

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.

On the main screen we can do 5 different actions:

• Install eBox Platform (selected by default, this is the option we should go for)
• Check CD for defects (is the installation failed we can use this options to check that the image was properly burned)
• Rescue a broken system (we will use this option to rescue the system on a fatal error)
• Test memory (the installer includes a memory tester application, we should check our server memory if it does random weird things)
• Boot from first hard disk (we will use this option to boot the system on a bootloader fatal error)

Next step is to choose your system language and localization:

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:

Then the installer begins to load all the components.

Network configuration

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.

Partitioning