kolab live-cd now available

Darren Wiebe darren at aleph-com.net
Thu Mar 27 18:06:58 CET 2008


Finally, about 2 months late, I got working on preparing a virtual 
machine for release.  It works well but I have to resolve an issue with 
Horde before it's ready.


Darren Wiebe
darren at aleph-com.net

Richard Bos wrote:
> Op Sunday 20 January 2008 03:00:32 schreef Diego Tognola:
>   
>> Richard,
>>
>> I'd have two suggestion:
>>
>> -) how about adding a few repositories, e.g. OSS and Kolab ?
>>     
>
> Those are already available:
> kolab:~ # smart channel --show | grep base | sort
> baseurl = http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/non-oss/suse/
> baseurl = http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/suse/
> baseurl = 
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/Kolab/openSUSE_10.3/
> baseurl = 
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/php:/applications//openSUSE_10.3/
> baseurl = http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3/
>
>   
>> -) some documentation on how to proceed to create 'something.net' ?
>>     
>
> The following explanatiooon will be available in the  next version:
> =Reconfiguring kolab, kontact and horde
> ==Reconfiguring kolab
> It is possible to experiment with kolab groupware integrated into your 
> network, but in that case the Kolab groupware server must be reconfigured. 
> This is done with kolab_bootstrap -b. Before kolab_bootstrap can be run all 
> related services needs to be stopped. This can be done with rckolabsrv stop 
> (which is a shortcut for the script kolabsrv rc all stop). All of these 
> scripts need to be run as user root. 
>
> ==Reconfiguring kontact and horde
> After the kolab groupware server has been reconfigured, the groupware clients 
> for the user needs to be reconfigured too. This can be done with kolabwizard 
> for kontact KDE's personal information manager (PIM) application. Kolabwizard 
> should be executed by the user that is going to use kontact. Don't forget to 
> reconfigure Horde as well. For this follow the steps on the openSUSE 
> kolab/horde wiki page. As a last resort just remove all the conf.php files 
> under /srv/www/htdocs/horde (you can use command 
> find /srv/www/htdocs/horde -name "conf.php" to find all the horde config 
> files) and start all over again. Users can be added to the livecd with yast. 
> But remember none of the changes will survive a reboot.
> <<<<<
>
> I want to leave it like that, BUT if someone else contributes such a 
> howto/procedure I'll just include it.
>  
>
>   
>> And with respect to the 'install': thanks for your hint, this is what
>> worked for me so far:
>>
>> -) create a new  VM with VMware server (Linux, openSUSE, 512MB, 8GB,
>> bridged network
>> -) add a CD drive to the VM, pointing to the LiveCD ISO
>> -) start VM
>> -) walk through the network card setup
>> -) open YAST, add the OSS repository ('software repositories')
>> -) install 'yast2-live-installer' via 'software management' in YAST
>> -) start 'Live-Installer' via YAST, install onto the VM's harddisk
>> -) after installation, shutdown VM
>> -) remove or disconnect the CD drive pointing to the ISO
>> -) start the VM
>> -) define admin password & new local user (?)
>> -) internet connection test failed, no URL defined (!)
>> -) log in as 'kolab1'
>> -) shutdown VM, take a snapshot  ;-)
>>     
>
> Wonderful!
>
>   




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