Installation Procedure

1. Insert the IPBrick bootable CD into the PC's CD-Rom drive;
2. Enable booting from CD on the PC BIOS;
3. Boot the PC using the IPBrick auto install CD;
4. The IPBrick logo will appear and also a command prompt boot: (Figure 3.1)

   ATTENTION!
    This installation will destroy all data in your hardrive.
    Remove this MEDIA if you don't want to install IPBRICK onto this hard drive.
   
   Press F1 for help, or ENTER to
   boot:
   

5. Fifteen seconds later the automatic installation process starts.

   These are the performed actions:

   • Note: If you want to stop the auto-install timer, please type anything or press a key at the console.
   • Warning regarding the begining of the installation process.
   • Kernel image loading.
   • After startup, the auto-instalation's script will attempt to detect the computer's hardware configuration where the IPBrick is being installed.

     Starting system log daemon
     Loading modules
     Creating devices
     Setting up keyboard
     Searching CDROM
     CDROM Found in: ___
     MOUNTING CDROM
     

6. After detecting all the hardware devices, a partition table will be created on the hard drive.

   STARTING HARD DISK DRIVE...
   HDD FOUND
   USING: ___
   CHECKING DISK SIZE...
   RESIZING HOMEs to FULL disk size
   WRITING PARTITION TABLE TO HDD...
   

7. After this process the computer reboots.

   GOING TO REBOOT NOW!
   DO NOT REMOVE IPBRICK RECOVER CD
   GOING TO REBOOT NOW!
   

   Note: If more than 3 reboots take place during automatic install you must abort the installation. This is a sign that something went wrong during the installation and that the system has entered a repeat cycle of the boot procedure.
8. The auto install process starts once more, detecting that the partition table has already been applied to the disk.

   HDD PARTITIONED
   PROCEEDING WITH INSTALLATION
   

9. The partition preparation takes place.

   FORMATTING HDD...
   This step can take some time please wait...
   FORMATTING PARTITION /dev/___1
   FORMATTING PARTITION /dev/___3
   FORMATTING PARTITION /dev/___5
   FORMATTING PARTITION /dev/___6
   FORMATTING PARTITION /dev/___7
   FORMATTING PARTITION /dev/___8
   FORMATTING SWAP
   MOUNTING NEW FILESYSTEM...
   

10. The software installation:

    INSTALLING...
    This step can take some time please wait...
    INSTALLING DRIVE /cdrom/data/drive1.dat
    ...
    INSTALLING DRIVE /cdrom/data/drive6.dat
    CHECKING physical address extension support...
    INSTALLING boot loader...
    ...
    Boot loader installed.
    ...
    System is now installed.
    

11. The installation process ends with the CD-ROM's ejection. Before ejection, the following message will be displayed:

    UMOUNTING CDROM
    REMOVE CDROM BEFORE REBOOTING YOUR SYSTEM
    DO NOT RESTART SYSTEM WITH IPBRICK RECOVER CD
    UMOUNTING ALL
    Installation scripts ENDED.
    ..
    

12. Remove the installation CD and reboot the computer;
13. During the system boot make sure that the BIOS is configured to boot from the hard disk drive (HDD);
14. After the BIOS boot up sequence, it will display the boot loader (Grub);
15. Next, the kernel startup messages will appear. The kernel startup sequence should end with the following lines:

    Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 ipbrick tty1
    
    ipbrick login: