[Bio-Linux] Biolinux8 - Is there an installation for "server mode"? (without X11, just x2go connection)

[Tim Booth]

Hi,

Tony's right - the Bio-Linux ISO is based on the Ubuntu desktop ISO, so
you basically need an X-session to run the installer even if you
subsequently remove X and run the thing headless.  It's possible to
strip out the X server packages while still retaining the libraries
needed by MATE for x2go but for simplicity I'd just take out LightDM so
X is present but never started.

By "add the network configuration manually" this means that if you set
your settings for any network card in /etc/network/interfaces then when
the NM daemon is restarted it will leave that card alone.  In my
experience NM now works very well but on a server with fixed network
routing it's just another layer of complexity you don't need.  Use the
command "nmcli d" to see what devices NM thinks it is managing.

Cheers,

TIM

On Thu, 2015-02-05 at 10:31 +0000, Tony Travis wrote:
> On 05/02/15 07:23, Xavier Martínez Serrano wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are  a research group working in metagenomics, and we would like to
> > install Biolinux8 in a server recently acquired in "server mode", i.e.
> > whithout  X11 enabled, we just need a ssh connection and might be in
> > some case an x2go connection.
> >
> > Is there an option to install Biolinux8 in such mode, revising the
> > documentation online we could not see it.
> 
> Hi, Xavi.
> 
> We run Bio-Linux 8 on servers using Tim's default installation without
> any issues. If you want to use Bio-Linux as an "x2go" terminal server,
> you will need X11 and the MATE desktop installed anyway. The only real
> problem is you have to add the network configuration manually to prevent
> network manager from configuring the NIC's dynamically. You can use
> "network manager" to statically configure NIC's, but it is intended to
> be used to configure NIC's dynamically on laptops or workstations.
> 
> HTH,
> 
>   Tony.
> 
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