Delete the first partition and recreate it, mounting it at /boot. Install Ubuntu from the latest version with LTS (Ubuntu 6.06 at the time of this writing, as 6.10 does not have LTS).Ĭhoose manual partitioning and create a 1.7 GB / partition and the rest for the /var partition. Refresh GParted and create a swap partition after the first partition and go ahead and format it. Type ‘128’ to make partition 1 align on 64KB boundary If this is linux, type ‘+102M’ to create the /boot partition for Windows, just hit Just hit enter to start at the first cylinder Additional space will be put on additional virtual harddrives, but for now, only create a 4 GB harddrive, allocate all space immediately, and do not split into 2GB chunks.Īfter the virtual machine is created, you can delete the floppy drive, you won't need it.Īfter creating the virtual machine, boot to a GParted LiveCD and create an aligned /boot and swap partition. For instance, you only need a 4 GB harddrive. This is how to create the virtual machine, what settings I recommend, and why, etc. I will eventually create similar guide on how to set up the VMWare Server on Ubuntu. A prerequisite for this guide will also be that you are setting this up in a VMWare Server virtual machine. It will focus on being a secure, stable, and compact foundation that my other server guides will build on.

This first page will be about setting up a base server system. The goal is to show you every necessary command to run to set up your servers and have all your servers communicating and working together.īare with me as I am learning how to format the wiki and converting my collection of notes into a human readable format. There are already, in my opinion, great information pages on the same subjects in the server documentation, however I find my self repeating the same step-by-step instructions for how to implement the information on those pages, time and time again to new Ubuntu users, hence the decision to start this series of documents.

My goal is to be tutorial-esque, but still be general enough to be applicable in a wide variety of environments.

I will be creating a series of documents for setting up various types of servers.

Ssh into gparted livecd