How to download the Lotus
Foundations Trial code and
creating an image for testing
11 Feb 2008

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/ls/lfoundation/
learn.html?S_TACT=105AGX28&S_CMP=DLMAIN

Marketing Guff

Marketing Guff

List of Packages

List of Packages

Select Core

Select Lotus Notes Add-on

Select email and Collaboration

Select Symphony

Unpack (and rename)

Install – start VMWare desktop

Vmware start view

File – New – Virtual machine

Change name to LotusFoundations

T60 (my machine) – 2 cores

Set to 2Gb (my machine has 3Gb)
Foundations will run on a LOT less

Bridged
My local test environment

Keep Default

Create New Virtual Disk

Create SCSI Disks

Set Disk size to 12GB
Split disk into 2Gb chunks

Change File (Disk) name

Success

Lotus Foundations Virtual Machine

Select “Edit virtual Machine
Settings”

Edit Virtual Machine

Click Add

Select Hard disk

Create a vitual disk

Select SCSI

Split disk into 2Gb files (easier to
manage the vm images)

Rename to disk2.vmdk

Two disks, disk1 install, disk2 =
backup

Select CD-ROM

Use ISO image you
downloaded

Navigate to Foundation ISO Image

Click on OK

Select “Start:

Vmware starts

Press 1, then enter

Lots of Screens - wait

Lots of Screens - wait

Press ENTER to begin…_

Press Enter

Console

Take Note of Details
• Servername: earthquake7.weavernet.null
• Webconfig: https://9.191.3.79:8043
• (this is for my installation, your IP address
will be different)
• DHCP: disabled

Type in Webconfig URL and it (may) fails.
Add an exception (blue text) – Get certificate –
Confirm Security Exception

You are In!!
Accept terms

Accept more terms

Create Admin Account (trial mode = no
activation key) – save changes

Admin Account Created

Login to admin account

Look at Web Configuration

Look at Web Configuration

Configure disk#1 as standalone disk

Lotus of cautions – click update
status and wait

Cautions

Disk configuration in Progress

Wait

Disk Status….(apol
ogies for twitter updates for this screen shot)

Watch logs

Disks are done

See all the ticks – no cautions!?

shutdown

Install Additional Packages

Navigate to My Documents

Map Drive

Map Drive

You have successfully accessed
Lotus Foundations file system

Navigate to add-on packages you
have downloaded (on your PC)

Copy into autoinstall directory in
foundations file system

When copy has finished it looks like this

You have lots of packages to install

Lotus Symphony 1.0 for Lotus
Foundations Start

Click on install

DAMO for Lotus Foundations
Start

Select install

You can see that Damo and
Symphony have been installed

Install Lotus Notes

So ends the quick guide for
installing Foundations using IBM’s
trial code.

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