FreeSBC:Baremetal:Installation A

Requirements

Minimal server requirements:

• Dual core Intel CPU 1.8GHz
• Optical disk driver
• 80G hard drive
• 4G RAM
• DPDK supported NICs (http://dpdk.org/doc/nics)
• Console access through serial port or keyboard/monitor ports

Getting the ISO

Please contact our sales team at sales@telcobridges.com to get a copy of the latest TBSC-SW ISO.

How to install ISO

The ISO installation process will reformat the server's hardrive and install all the necessery software.

Installation Steps :

1. Burn the ISO onto a DVD
2. Insert the DVD in the optical drive of your server and boot from the DVD drive.
3. Wait for the installation process to complete
   1. When installation is complete, the server will reboot itself.
4. Use the console login into the server
   1. user: root
   2. password: root
5. Change the password to something stronger than root:

# passwd
New password: ........
Retype new password: ........
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

1. Assign a IP address to the Ethernet interface having network connectivity. Example if the NIC's name would be eth0:

 # ip addresss add 192.168.178.30/24 dev eth0
 # ip link set eth0 up