ServerAtSchool Installation Guide

Peter Fokker and Dirk Schouten

Table of contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

I. Getting started with ServerAtSchool
    1. Introduction
    2. Intended audience
    3. Prerequisites
    4. Relation between OpenNA Linux (VSLC) 1.0 and ServerAtSchool
    5. Necessary information for a smooth installation
    6. Taking notes
    7. Getting help

II. Preparing the hardware for installation
    1. Introduction
    2. Hardware recommendations
    3. Preparing the server

III. Using the text mode installation program
    1. Introduction
    2. Starting the installation program
    3. Keyboard map
    4. Time zone
    5. Disk partitioning
    6. Type of installation (SAS)
    7. Target drive
    8. Documentation
    9. Hostname configuration
    10. Network configuration
    11. Internet connection details
    12. Boot loader configuration
    13. Root password
    14. E-mail address configuration
    15. Samba configuration

IV. Installing optional ServerAtSchool components
    1. Introduction
    2. Proxy
    3. USB/Laptop
    4. Firewall
    5. Webmail
    6. Mailman
    7. Finishing the installation procedure

V. Configuring all ServerAtSchool components
    1. Introduction
    2. Basics
    3. Bind
    4. Exim
    5. DHCPD
    6. Portsentry
    7. MySQL
    8. Apache
    9. Site@School
    10. Janitor
    11. REOBack
    12. Samba
    13. Ghost for Unix
    14. Squid
    15. USB/Laptop
    16. GIPtables
    17. Squirrelmail
    18. Mailman
    19. ClamAV
    20. CUPS
    21. Flotsam and jetsam

Appendix A. Manual disk partitioning
    1. Introduction
    2. Default partitioning scheme in ServerAtSchool
    3. Partitioning with cfdisk
    4. Formatting partititions and creating fstab

Appendix B. Bibliography
    1. Books and articles
    2. On-line resources

Appendix C. How the ServerAtSchool documentation was written
    1. Introduction
    2. INSTALL.TXT and taking notes
    3. Documenting the documentation
    4. Writing the documentation
    5. The Exemplum Primary School
    6. Tools

Appendix D. Worksheets
    1. Introduction
    2. Server properties
    3. Password list

Copyright © 2006 Peter Fokker and Dirk Schouten

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ISBN-10: 90-810642-1-5
ISBN-13: 978-90-810642-1-7

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