Partitioning & Installing Ubuntu Server Part 2/2

Partitioning & Installing Ubuntu Server Part 2/2

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Partition Plan:
All of Ubuntu, all apps and data under a single 12 GB partition mounted at /. This will be in the single and only primary partition we make on this hard disk.
In the implied extended partition to contain all subsequent logical partitions, we will create a 1 GB swap space.
This machine has a 20 GB hard drive so with the remaining 7.x GB of space we will create a final partition to essentially hold the leftover space in a useful way until we have a more specific use for it.
We will create a final 7 GB logical partition mounted at /data.
This could possibly be used for large database files, hot backups or cross-host mirror backups or possibly re-partitioned in the future in building a dual or multi-boot machine.
For the installation of Ubuntu Server we set our hostname for this machine as 'core' and as on all of the machines in our infrastructure, we set the initial user as 'electric'.
We set a password for the MySQL 'root' user. We choose the 'Internet Site' configuration scheme for the Postfix Mail Server (MTA).
We do not install DNS as we plan to run that on another physical host in our infrastructure called 'energy'.
We will exclusively use MySQL for database development so we do not install PostgressSQL.
For now we leave Samba off, but it is realistic that we might want to do some file serving to Windows or to authenticate Ubuntu users through a Windows Domain Controller, which are some things you can do with Samba. We'll install it later if and when we get into that on this host.

This is part of the ongoing video series:
Ubuntu Perl Enterprise
.. Ubuntu, Perl, Apache, Postfix, DNS, linux router & firewall, CPAN, anti-spam, system adminstration automation, security, much much more.

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• ubuntu
• desktop
• 8.04.3
• install
• installation
• partition
• partitioning
• grub
• boot
• loader
• multiboot
• dual
• format
• hostname
• user

[theredfisherman]

What software stack do i choose if i want to run a jabber server? Thanks.

[ElectricLinux]

@theredfisherman Jabber, now called XMPP will compile and run on just about any Linux or Unix variant. It used to have a handful of library/service dependencies but most of those have now been folded into the XMPP build/install. So long story short, it is pretty much a standalone installation with few external dependencies which you can build and run on just about an *nix box.

[JRDawdy]

Ubuntu 9.1*** LOL

[ElectricLinux]

@JRDawdy Nothing wrong with running Ubuntu 5 except for some possible security vulnerabilities you might want to have patched with higher versions of some packages. You should be able to run the latest version of Ubuntu on that 700 MHz machine with no problem. GUI might be a little slow but for a stripped down web server .. no problem. The partitioning covered in these videos should be the about the same no matter how far back in versions you go.

[JRDawdy]

Great video! i was searching for videos to give me an idea of what to look for during installation. I am going to install Ubuntu 5 in just a few minutes! :)

I was curious, how much can a 700mhz cpu handle as far as traffic on a website? Just curious. THanks!

[ElectricLinux]

@JRDawdy If you are not running a GUI and don't have any other services loading your server then the Apache instance will be able to do quite a bit of work on a 700 MHz machine. The most accurate answer I can give you is that you can serve a huge amount of traffic on that machine as long as you build your site apps and site images efficiently.

[mcskittle3232]

great vid! maybe my 4th time installing linux on a server. and that was about 4 years ago... thanks a bunch!

[hoanggeneral]

thank you for the helpful clip.

[metajake]

thank you for this pragmatic, helpful guide to Ubuntu Server installation.

Also, great view ya got there!

Now to follow through with some more walkthroughs i hope.

[1Administrater]

how do i get in to graphic mode! i want to have that so i can play with my vechuwul musheen! i use virtual box.