Friends..... :-)
good news for both of you!
First of all, it is possible to install Scalix without a X-Server running on your Server itself; X-Windows is capable of redirecting it's graphical Output over the net.
You just need X-Windows running on your local PC from which you stage the install; how this is done depends on your operating system. If you're running Linux or Mac OS/X on your desktop, the capability is already built into the OS. If this is a Windows PC, you'll need a X-Windows Server running - i recommend Cygwin/X, which is part of the OpenSource Cygwin project, available at
www.cygwin.com.
You start your X-Server and from a terminal Window running within X, you start a SSH-Session with a X-Windows tunnel to your Scalix server, this is done using a
ssh -X
root@scalix.server.hostname.com
command.
When you then start scalix-installer in this ssh session, screen output will be tunneled into your PC through the SSH connection and displayed on your local desktop!
However, to make things even more easy, should such possibility not exist, the Installer in the next release of Scalix - scheduled for release in February - will actually run in text mode if there is no graphical display or X-Window redirection available. This is also good if you need to run the installer over slow lines or directly on a text console of your server or need to automate the install.
Enjoy,
Florian.