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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Zentyal on a Bootable USB Thumb Drive?
« on: September 22, 2011, 12:31:18 am »
Sorry that I didn't get back so far. As I am only a "hobby" sysadmin I can only work on this over the weekend and last weekend I had to finish a report, so I didn't get any further. I will see if I can work on it this week.
I will try to create the usb stick with the 11.04, as it is already installed. If that doesn't help I was thinking of installing Zentyal directly on the hard disc via a USB to SATA Docking station that I would connect to a computer with CD-Drive. Would this be a possible solution (after trying once again the USB Stick), or would this create problems?
I will try to create the usb stick with the 11.04, as it is already installed. If that doesn't help I was thinking of installing Zentyal directly on the hard disc via a USB to SATA Docking station that I would connect to a computer with CD-Drive. Would this be a possible solution (after trying once again the USB Stick), or would this create problems?
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Zentyal on a Bootable USB Thumb Drive?
« on: September 18, 2011, 05:13:18 pm »
Hi Sam!
Thanks for the hint! I'll have a look at that. I was not using ubuntu to greate the stick though.
Thanks for the hint! I'll have a look at that. I was not using ubuntu to greate the stick though.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Zentyal on a Bootable USB Thumb Drive?
« on: September 18, 2011, 12:17:52 am »
@nalare: if seen your response before. So if this is true, then there would be something wrong the way I create my bootable usb key. However, this problem existed in 2.1 and you needed some work around. Now I thought this was fixed in 2.2 and it seems like it works for you.
So I will try to create the bootable usb device the way you explained it.
So I will try to create the bootable usb device the way you explained it.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Zentyal on a Bootable USB Thumb Drive?
« on: September 17, 2011, 07:56:39 pm »
My problem is, that Zentyal always wants a CD-Rom during the install process, because it is looking for some files on the CD. But my Microserver doesn't have a CD drive. So I am desperatly trying to install things via USB. In the tutorial it says there is a way to tell Zentyal the path to the cd-rom so you could send it to the USB, but this option doesn't exist for me. That is my main problem.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Zentyal on a Bootable USB Thumb Drive?
« on: September 17, 2011, 06:56:48 pm »
Same problem with the RC. I'll try another trick now. Let's see if it works.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Zentyal on a Bootable USB Thumb Drive?
« on: September 17, 2011, 06:09:59 pm »
Well, the thing is the USB key is working. Otherwise I couldn't start installation I guess. What is weired is when tell Zentyal to search for an ISO on a removable disk, it just goes back to the screen where it says: couldn't find the files on the cd-rom, blablabla. Of course you couldn't find it, stupid! there is no Cd rom... ;-)
Somehow it seems like it isn't looking for alternative media at all. However, I'll try the RC now. Because it worked for you with the RC, it didn't work for me with the release.
Maybe I also try to use the "startup disk creator" from Ubuntu. Thanks for the response anyway.
Somehow it seems like it isn't looking for alternative media at all. However, I'll try the RC now. Because it worked for you with the RC, it didn't work for me with the release.
Maybe I also try to use the "startup disk creator" from Ubuntu. Thanks for the response anyway.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Zentyal on a Bootable USB Thumb Drive?
« on: September 17, 2011, 05:49:53 pm »
Hi Sam, thanks for your responses.
I don't rule the out the bug report. But I will wait to see if there is an response from Christian, who said he managed to install from USB key without problems. Maybe I can find out what I am doing wrong.
yeah, I am using the 2.2 Iso and create a bootable usb key with UNetBootin. I tried to follow this tutorial http://trac.zentyal.org/wiki/Documentation/Community/HowTo/InstallationFromUSB, but the installation routine already is different to that.
First it searches for the files, than it says it can find them. Fine. If I click yes to repeat it will never end, so I go for no and get to a screen with various options and I go for the cd-rom again. There I can choose to look on removable devices, but nothing happens. It goes straight back to the screen where it says that it fails to find the cd-rom.
I can't give the path manually.
And I learned it the hard way that Zentyal doesn't work with 11.04. I had Ubuntu it up and running but then noticed that it won't work properly...
But at least I saw that Ubuntu 11.04 is working... ;-)
I don't rule the out the bug report. But I will wait to see if there is an response from Christian, who said he managed to install from USB key without problems. Maybe I can find out what I am doing wrong.
yeah, I am using the 2.2 Iso and create a bootable usb key with UNetBootin. I tried to follow this tutorial http://trac.zentyal.org/wiki/Documentation/Community/HowTo/InstallationFromUSB, but the installation routine already is different to that.
First it searches for the files, than it says it can find them. Fine. If I click yes to repeat it will never end, so I go for no and get to a screen with various options and I go for the cd-rom again. There I can choose to look on removable devices, but nothing happens. It goes straight back to the screen where it says that it fails to find the cd-rom.
I can't give the path manually.
And I learned it the hard way that Zentyal doesn't work with 11.04. I had Ubuntu it up and running but then noticed that it won't work properly...
But at least I saw that Ubuntu 11.04 is working... ;-)
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Zentyal on a Bootable USB Thumb Drive?
« on: September 17, 2011, 05:26:20 pm »
Well, at the moment I am not sure if I am doing something wrong or not. Because if it is my mistake or lack of knowledge it might not be a bug.
I put the USB stick in, fire up the installation routine and then it complains that it can't find my cd-rom drive. I also expected that this requirement for the cd-rom would be gone, but it seems it is not. As I said, installing 11.04 worked just fine, but ...
I put the USB stick in, fire up the installation routine and then it complains that it can't find my cd-rom drive. I also expected that this requirement for the cd-rom would be gone, but it seems it is not. As I said, installing 11.04 worked just fine, but ...
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Zentyal on a Bootable USB Thumb Drive?
« on: September 17, 2011, 04:51:44 pm »
I followed the steps describing the installation from USB, but I always get stuck when pointing the CD-Rom manually, because I am not presented with this option.
What I also don't get is why I need to have the Iso on the stick again, after making it bootable with Zentyal. Because with the desktop version of Ubuntu 11.04 I could just make the stick bootable with this ISO and it would install directly. Well, seems like Zentyal is not (yet) for me.
Have to see if I can improvise with 11.04 I guess.
What I also don't get is why I need to have the Iso on the stick again, after making it bootable with Zentyal. Because with the desktop version of Ubuntu 11.04 I could just make the stick bootable with this ISO and it would install directly. Well, seems like Zentyal is not (yet) for me.
Have to see if I can improvise with 11.04 I guess.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Zentyal on a Bootable USB Thumb Drive?
« on: September 17, 2011, 04:12:54 pm »
Hi Christian,
How did you do that? I just tried it, and I run basically into the same problems as for 2.1. Zentyal wants a CD/DVD drive to install, but I don't have one.
It would be great if you could give me a hint! I get to the point where it asks for the CDdrive to install from and as I have none, that's it basically. I thought they fixed that. Maybe I did something wrong in the preparation of the USB stick?
But I don't think so. I installed the final release actually. Or at least tried. ;-)
How did you do that? I just tried it, and I run basically into the same problems as for 2.1. Zentyal wants a CD/DVD drive to install, but I don't have one.
It would be great if you could give me a hint! I get to the point where it asks for the CDdrive to install from and as I have none, that's it basically. I thought they fixed that. Maybe I did something wrong in the preparation of the USB stick?
But I don't think so. I installed the final release actually. Or at least tried. ;-)
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Zentyal on a Bootable USB Thumb Drive?
« on: September 08, 2011, 03:36:59 am »
Hi Sam Graf,
Thank you for the quick reply. So if the release is so close, I might actually risk it. Until everything is setup and running, the release is out anyway. I'll check if the problem with the USB install are solved.
Thank you for the quick reply. So if the release is so close, I might actually risk it. Until everything is setup and running, the release is out anyway. I'll check if the problem with the USB install are solved.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Zentyal on a Bootable USB Thumb Drive?
« on: September 08, 2011, 03:06:53 am »
Hi!
Finally my HP Proliant Microserver n36l arrived and I took advantage of the national holiday here and tried to install Zentyal 2.0.4 on it with the method described above, but I was not successful.
Unfortunately Step 6 ("6. Alt-F2 to another terminal") doesn't work for me. With Alt-F2 nothing happened.
Without this I can't proceed. So I thought I'll just install Ubuntu 11.04 desktop, which I know would work from the USB stick and the installation worked like a charme. I only read later, that Zentyal under Ubuntu 11.04 isn't really recommended and is lacking the webinterface. So there we go. So my install was basically useless.
I see a few options right now:
Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Finally my HP Proliant Microserver n36l arrived and I took advantage of the national holiday here and tried to install Zentyal 2.0.4 on it with the method described above, but I was not successful.
Unfortunately Step 6 ("6. Alt-F2 to another terminal") doesn't work for me. With Alt-F2 nothing happened.
Without this I can't proceed. So I thought I'll just install Ubuntu 11.04 desktop, which I know would work from the USB stick and the installation worked like a charme. I only read later, that Zentyal under Ubuntu 11.04 isn't really recommended and is lacking the webinterface. So there we go. So my install was basically useless.
I see a few options right now:
- Install a cd/dvd drive. But I don't really see why I should install a cd drive, just for installation
- Install 10.04 LTS and then the Zentyal packages, but as I understood it is missing the interface then as well
- Find a way to get around the problem with the non existent cd-rom drive.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
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