Manual Installation without X

[siabcool]

Hi,

I noticed in another thread http://www.scalix.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=70 that you mentioned that there may soon be a guide for manual installation.
Just wondering if it is available yet?

Or some pointers on how it can be done would be great. We would like to install on a existing Headless server.
I believe we almost achieved it, but is not so easy.

Regards,
Jonathan

[kanderson]

One easy workaround that we went with was to install Suse with a minimal X install, and then start remote administration. Following that, we made the box headless. From there, we could connect via VNC onto port 5801/5901 on the Server, then download the software and go through the install remotely. Once the install was complete, we simply ran it at runlevel 3 rather than 5 (meaning no X).

This meant that we had the X allowing for a fairly easy install. We didn't install all of KDE on a server that wouldn't need it. We did have FVWM, so we could do the GUI install, and use a browser locally on the server when if it was ever necessary. We don't tie up the RAM uselessly by loading X when it isn't needed.

Hope that helps.
Kev.

[siabcool]

Thanks,

Was able to get it going on a Redhat 9 machine. Basically use up2date and install XFree86 which includes xterm.

Export the display to your remote computer.

#export DISPLAY:x.x.x.x:0.0
#scalix-wizard

Install as normal, make sure you install the Scalix IMAP if using webmail.

Regards
Jonathan

[chris]

There is no reason you need to have X running or be in runlevel 5 to install scalix. You don't even need to setenv.

You need to configure your local X server to accept incomconnections and just connect to the server with ssh -X user@host. That will automagically set up your display variable and tunnel what you do through ssh.

Cheers,

Chris