Topic: Man, how do I start this????

[svetlo56]

I put the disk in, got the initial screen with two cryptic choices and then my horse all went by itself and ended with

login:

Now what?

What happened with easy installation of SME 6????

I cannot find the manual how to install this!

[wjhobbs]

What happened with easy installation of SME 6????

First, you might want to install SME7 rather than SME6.

Second, if you look here http://edocs.mitel.com/6000_SME_Server/6.0/6000_Tech_Handbook_En/6000_tech_handbook_en.pdf
 you will find the SME6 install instructions ...

and if you look here http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/SME7Manual
you will see the manual for SME7 (a work in progress).

[jonroberts]

I put the disk in, got the initial screen with two cryptic choices and then my horse all went by itself and ended with

login:

Now what?

I assume you've just installed SME7 and see that the start up is different to SME6.  Is that right?

If so, my guess is that the two cryptic choices were SMP and UP (I think).  This is the kernel to run.  SMP is for multi-processor support.  UP is for single processor support.  Once you select one, its remembered for future reboots, so you don't need to choose again.

Earlier versions of SME would log in and display the Server Console screen.  This not the case on SME7.  If you log in as user 'admin', you will see the Server Console.  If you log in as root this is as before.

Of course, you probably don't need to log in at all.  Once you see the login screen, the server is up and running, so connect to it using server-manager (https://your-ip/server-manager) and you can probably do all you need from there.

Don't let this initial impression put you off, SME7 is well worth a look (IMO).

[judgej]

I've also found that once you log in as 'admin' from the console for the first time, it seems to automatically log into the admin console on each subsequent boot after that. I expect the feature can be turned off again, somewhere in the config menu.

-- JJ

[byte]

to change from console to admin via command line type...

db configuration set ConsoleMode login
signal-event console-save

then next time you reboot it will be at login.

If you wanted the admin menu you would change login for auto