linux installation

What you will need:

1. Turnkey Linux PDC Appliance .ISO file
2. Software to burn the .ISO such as ImgBurn (Freeware)
3. Either an empty, bare metal, physical server with networking or
4. Virtual machine (VM) application such as Virtualbox / VMWare etc

Installation:
For this guide we will be using VMWare but the installation is the same for a
physical server.
OK let's go:

1. Power up the server and insert the .ISO CD (make sure your server is
2. configured to boot from CD / DVD)
3. You will now be presented with the following screen:
4. Please choose Install to hard disk
5. Setup will proceed
6. You will now be prompted on what you want to do with the disk partition
7. To use the full disk select: Guided - use entire disk

You will then receive a warning about destroying ALL data on the disk, if

that's OK then select Yes

artitions will now be formatted and installation will continue

Security:

You will now be prompted to enter a password for the Root

Choose a sensible, secure password and remember it

Retype the password

Domain / Samba Setup:

You will now be presented with the option to name your Samba domain

For this example we will leave the default of Domain as shown:

Now enter a password for the Samba administrator account as shown:

Retype the Samba administrator account password:

Installation should now be complete - You will now be prompted to

restart as shown: