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Installation Modifications for Zimbra with Ubuntu

When you install the Ubuntu Server OS for ZCS, accept the default setup answers to install the minimum configuration, except for the following steps that must be modified.

Refer to the Ubuntu Linux installation guide for detailed documentation about installing their software. (https://help.ubuntu.com)

Network Configuration should be configured manually with the hostname [mailhost.example.com] of the Zimbra server. If your network has DHCP enabled, and it finishes configuring the system with DHCP, select <Go Back>to configure the networking for the system manually.

Disk Partitioning Setup:

1. For disk partitioning setup, select Manual and the disk to partition

2. Enter Yes to create a new empty partition table

3. Select the FREE SPACE partition 2 March 2011 Zimbra Collaboration Server Installation Modifications for ZCS with Ubuntu LTS

4. Select Create a new partition and 200MB for the size. This will be the /boot partition

5. Select Primary for the type of the new partition

6. Location for the partition is Beginning

7. Use as: Should be Ext2 file system

8. Mountpoint should be /boot

9. Bootable flag: should be on Zimbra Collaboration Server March 2011 3 Installation Modifications for ZCS with Ubuntu LTS

10. Select Done setting up the partition

11. Select Configure the Logical Volume Manager

12. Select Yes to write the changes to disk and configure LVM

13. Select Create volume group 4 March 2011 Zimbra Collaboration Server Installation Modifications for ZCS with Ubuntu LTS

14. For Volume Group Name, enter LV

15. For the volume group space, select the FREE SPACE remaining on the disk

16. Select Yes to write the changes and configure LVM

17. Select Create logical volume

18. Use the logical volume group LV

19. For the logical volume name, enter swap

20. For the size, set it to be twice the size of the RAM on your machine

21. Select Yes to write the changes and configure LVM

22. Select Create logical volume

23. Use the logical volume group LV

24. For the logical volume name, enter root

25. For the size, allocate all remaining space

26. Select Yes to write the changes and configure LVM

27. Select Finish

28. Select LV swap device Zimbra Collaboration Server March 2011 5 Installation Modifications for ZCS with Ubuntu LTS

29. Change Use as: swap area

30. Select Done setting up the partition

31. Select LV root device 6 March 2011 Zimbra Collaboration Server Installation Modifications for ZCS with Ubuntu LTS

32. Change Use as: to Ext4 journaling file system

33. Change Mount point: to /

34. Select Done setting up the partition

35. Select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk