RaspberryPi Installation

This manual describes how to install the IACBOX system on a RaspberryPi 4B board.

The installation medium of the IACBOX for RaspberryPi can be downloaded from our homepage.
To create a bootable SD-Card you may follow the instructions on the according manual page.
For better performance use a SD Card with minimum size of 128 GB

Starting the Installation

After booting from the SD Card, the first screen shows the hardware model (raspberrypi) and if it is supported. If the hardware model is supported, you can continue with Enter.

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In order to navigate in the FT-Setup use the arrow keys to navigate in lists. To highlight/select an entry use the SPACE bar. Use TAB to navigate between the list entries and save/back handlers. To proceed use the ENTER key.

Before installing, you can change the keyboard and partitioning settings. Note that the installation requires you to enter all important menus. After you've confirmed the keyboard settings, navigate into the menu Partitioning. Here you will find the installed hard drive and it's size. To confirm the installation on this hard drive, hit ENTER or select Continue. The installation will then show a summary of the partitions which are required for the IACBOX.

Accept the summary with Continue to get back to the main menu. Now move on to Installation to start the process which copies all necessary files to the selected hard drive. This may take some time.

After the copying process is finished you will see the main menu of the basic configuration. Same as with the keyboard settings, first navigate into Timezone and either accept or change the configuration. Now navigate to Sys-Config. Here you change the used DNS Servers.

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It is highly suggested to use the DNS servers of your ISP. Using local firewalls or routers as DNS servers will most likely lead to problems later on.

After configuring the DNS servers navigate into the Office LAN / WAN menu. Here you can change the IP address of the Office-LAN, it's Subnet mask and the Default Gateway. Note that this must be done by technical staff with according network knowledge.

Next up is the Surf-LAN interface configuration. Make sure to enable Enable WLAN configuration here.

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For the Surf-LAN configuration please note that it is highly suggested to use the default configuration. Since the Surf-LAN is an isolated network anyway, it should not matter. The options Enable client2client protection and Disable client MAC address dependency will be explained later on.

After both interfaces have been reviewed, the text next to them will change from <edit> to <done>, which is required to proceed with the installation.

If you have 3 network cards installed, you will also see the Management-LAN menu entry. In case you want to activate and use the Management-LAN, enter the menu, select enable Management-LAN by using the SPACE bar. Now use the TAB key to select Accept and confirm it by pressing ENTER once. This must be done before leaving the menu, otherwise the change will not be saved.

In order to get back to the main menu use TAB to highlight Back and confirm with ENTER. Now navigate into the menu Net-Auto. This menu allows you to re-assign the installed network cards to a specific interface of the IACBOX. Even as this is not necessary, the installation requires you to enter this menu in order to verify the amount of detected network cards.

Now navigate back to the main menu, enter the Activate menu and confirm. The installation will activate the configuration. Afterwards finish by choosing End - Exit FrozentuxSetup, this installs the kernel and prepares the system for the first boot. The system reboots and loads the IACBOX. The bootup is finished as soon as you reach the login console:

This means that the system was successfully installed. You now see the IP address of the Office-LAN which can be used in order to open the WebAdmin of the IACBOX. Connect your workstation/notebook to the Office-LAN and open the webpage https://192.168.1.1 with your browser of choice (replace with the IP address you've configured which is also visible on the console). Later on this manual will explain how to enable WebAdmin access via Management-LAN or Surf-LAN.

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The console enables you to change certain network settings. To log in on the console, you need to change the password for the default WebAdmin user sysop, because the login on the console will not work with the default login data (sysop/sysop). In order to change the password for the sysop user log in into the WebAdmin (see above) and click on My Account.

If you log in with the sysop user on the console, you get back into the same setup menu which you've seen during the installation. This can be used to change the network settings without accessing the WebAdmin.

RaspberryPi Installation

Starting the Installation #

Starting the Installation