Table of Contents

The deepOfix Installation Guide

Welcome to the deepOfix Installation Manual. This guide will help you ensure that you can install and run deepOfix without any problems at all.

-: Pre-installation Planning

-: Installing deepOfix

Booting the Install CD

The deepOfix installer welcome screen

Scan the deepOfix CD for errors

View the deepOfix License

Information required to install deepOfix

Choose your keyboard layout

Choose the disk drives to use

Configure software RAID (optional)

Configuring partition sizes

Format your disk drive(s)

Configure an IP address

Configure your network subnet

Configure your network gateway

Configure your DNS server

Confirm the network settings

Choose the server hostname

Configure the domain name

Fill-in your organisation's name

Choose a system password

Configure system information

Choose your timezone

The second stage installation process

Installing Base Operating System

Further stages in installing Base Operating System

Installing Packages

The other packages in the second stage installation

Installing deepOfix packages

-: Finishing the deepOfix installation

-: Booting your server for the first time

-: Installation using virtual machines

Using KVM