Monday, November 7, 2011

Trixbox 2.8.0.4 Documentation


Boot to the CD-ROM
When the trixbox loading screen appears, press the <ENTER> button.
The trixbox screen will load, saying Welcome to Trixbox.  Choose your keyboard layout and press enter.  We choose the US keyboard layout.
Trixbox will run the installer anaconda, and probe for the video card
The installer GUI appears again.  Select your time zone and press <SPACE>.  We choose US/Los Angeles
Choose a Root password for your system.  For example, P@ssw0rd.  Press Space to accept.
trixbox will check for the dependencies needed in the packages being installed.
trixbox will then begin to format the hard-drive.
Trixbox will begin to install on the machine.
The machine restarts after trixbox finishes installing.
The eth0 startup will fail.  This is because network settings still have to be configured.
The trixbox login screen appears.  Login as root with your default root password.
The prompt will appear.  The first thing you will do is setup the network.  Type ‘setup’ and hit <ENTER>
A list of options will appear.  Go to network configuration and hit the <ENTER> button.
Another list will appear.  ‘Edit devices’ and ‘Edit DNS configuration’.  First, select ‘Edit Devices’ and press <ENTER>
The ‘Edit devices’ screen will bring up your NICs.  Select the NIC that will be incorporated with your trixbox and press <ENTER>
Once you’ve selected the NIC, uncheck the DHCP box and put in your IP settings.  For this computer, we put 192.168.40.140, 255.255.255.0, 192.168.40.120.  Then scroll to OK and press <ENTER>
Save your settings and press <ENTER>
Next, select ‘Edit DNS configuration” and press <ENTER>
Change the settings in your DNS configuration to match your DNS.  For the hostname, we put tri404.team4.cniss.cptc.edu  and for the Primary DNS 192.168.40.120.  Save your settings and press <ENTER>.
Highlight the Save and Quit button and press <ENTER>
Turn off the following services:  Acpid, apmd, atd, auditd, autofs, dahdi, firstboot, irqbalance, microcode_ctl, netfs, nfslock, portmap, rawdevices, readahead_early, restorecond, rpcgssd, rpcidmad, smartd, tftp, vsftpd, xfs, yum-updatesd,
Turn on the memcached service.  The mDNSResponder and zaptel are not available at this time.  Press the OK button and exit from the setup gui.
Send the reset signal (init 6) to the trixbox, and restart the computer.
Select the default boot setting and let the system start up.
Interface eth0 should boot without issue this time. 
Now, switch the devices on the setup screen.  Switch your Eth1 device to Eth0 and Eth0 to Eth1
Send the reset signal (init 6) once more.  When your computer boots up, you should be able to use the gigabit connection by default.
Log into the trixbox server.  Change your maint password for logging into the GUI by inputting the passwd-maint command.
Go to a client machine, and open Mozilla Firefox.  Point your browser to the IP address of the trixbox server.
On the main screen, switch to admin mode using the username / password you set up before.
Close the registration box.  Go to ‘Settings’ and ‘Registration’, and click the “Don’t ask me to register again.” Button.

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