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You have the following possibilities to purchase Gibraltar:
Purchase from a partner If you purchased Gibraltar from one of the authorized Gibraltar partners or resellers, you got Gibraltar within scope of delivery on a CD-ROM enclosed. If you put this CD into the computer you want to use for Gibraltar, the system boots completely from CD, and starts Gibraltar as far as you have selected the CD-ROM as first boot device in the BIOS.
Download the Gibraltar Image After downloading the ISO image from the Gibraltar homepage you have to create a bootable CD. That process should not allegorise a major problem. Therefore you have to start your programme for burning CDs and choose an option for creating CDs by burning an ISO image. You find this option in every burning software. In case that you do not find the option, check the manual of your software. With this option you create a bootable Gibraltar CD which starts the computer you use for Gibraltar afterwards. Pay attention to the settings of the BIOS concerning the bootdevices. This CD behaves the same way as a CD you purchase from one of our partners. You can order the license key at our homepage http://www.gibraltar.at and we will send it to you via e-mail.
Access to GibADMIN After starting Gibraltar you can perform the necessary settings with GibADMIN. Therefore Gibraltar has assigned itself an IP address (10.0.0.1); so you can reach GibADMIN via HTTPS at this address. Presupposed you have a computer in the same network segment (e.g: 10.0.0.50) you can immediately start your web browser and reach GibADMIN via https://10.0.0.1. If you do not have a computer in the network segment 10.0.0.0/24, install a suitable IP address (e.g. 10.0.0.50) at any computer from which you would like to reach GibADMIN. Afterwards you can modify the IP address of Gibraltar so that you can use your common IP addresses. If you don't know exactly, which of your computers' network interface was recognised first and thus has the IP address 10.0.0.1, please try your several network interfaces to find out. Plug the network cable to another network interface in case that you can't connect to the GibADMIN. Gibraltar assigns an IP address to every network interface, whereas the first recognised one gets the IP address 10.0.0.1, the second one 10.0.1.1, the third one 10.0.2.1 a.s.o. It goes on like that unless an address is already assigned in the network and can be reached by Gibraltar. While configuring Gibraltar it it's necessary to install your personal license file (by uploading via GibADMIN). Thereby the installation becomes complete and you can use the whole periphery of Gibraltar and take the support.
ATTENTION: If the IP address 10.0.0.1 is already used, Gibraltar will search in ascending order until the next available address is found (10.0.0.2, 10.0.0.3, ...).
Why does Gibraltar not start from CD although the CD-ROM is the first boot device? If your computer does not start Gibraltar you either did not correctly implement the settings in the BIOS, or your computer is not able to start from CD. This can happen with older models. In case that you have checked your BIOS settings and you have ensured that the first boot device is the CD-ROM, but you still can not boot from CD, get the information how to install Gibraltar with boot disks at our homepage http://www.gibraltar.at.
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