Partitioning & Installing Ubuntu Server Part 1/2

Partitioning & Installing Ubuntu Server Part 1/2

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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:
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.. Ubuntu, Perl, Apache, Postfix, DNS, linux router & firewall, CPAN, anti-spam, system adminstration automation, security, much much more.

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Category:

Education

Tags:

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

[StrongerThenYOU1923]

can u play games on this???..i have an cs 1.6 server and i want to be able to play it as well.

[ElectricLinux]

if your computer is pretty fast then you can run the CS game server as well as play the game. Usually when people do both it is on windows. I'm not sure if there is a game client for Linux (so you can play the game). Of course there is a CS server for linux. Linux is the best OS for the server but Windows is probably the best OS for the client (playing the game.) Ideally one would use 2 different computers.

[CornLodge]

i need help partitioning plz look at my video itl show u wat happens

[ElectricLinux]

@CornLodge, i looked at your videos but didn't see anything related to partitioning. good music on a lot of them and interesting fun stiff though!

so what's the partitioning issue again?

[cloudbook1994]

im subbing!

[ElectricLinux]

thanks! hope to make more soon.

[dcs1892]

what is swap?

[comsian4u]

At 8:00 bootable flag is not becoming on. i am install ubuntu 10.10. if i ignore it. after installation PC is held at startup.

[Mishwa0sa]

thaaanx aloot



[benghaith]

And do not forget to checksum!! It took a while to download then I burned it without checksumming it went to a whole unexpected problems!!!

[TheAkatushar]

Can i use Ubuntu 10.04 server edition 32 or 64bit for my dedicated game server, but i heard that CentOS is much better any idea??

[TheAkatushar]

Can i use Ubuntu 10.04 server edition 32 or 64bit for my dedicated ga,e server, but i heard that CentOS is much better any idea??

[Elenkhos]

Hey bud, sorry to nag you, but do you know how to create server space on an already dedicated o.s.? I was told you can create a server in Ubuntu that you can access from outside as long as your computer is up and running and online.

[faxmanloveswaffles]

gui? it is prononced G.U.I letters said seperated

[StrongerThenYOU1923]

q8400 cpu and 4 g of ram+ gtx 260...i currently have windows 7 and i can run them both